Jokiharju, the future Norris trophy winner just entered the league

[LeafChief]

Blackhawks have some real nice D coming.

 

[Kaako Kappo]

Q's an *******.

Dunno, giving 19 year old offensive Dman top pairing minutes is quite generous. He seems to be deserving it, though.

 

[theVladiator]

Jokigod was better than Heiskanan at the WJC last year as well

Heiskanen was not fully healed from an injury. I love Jokiharju, but let's not get too excited yet, hm?

 

[MMANumminen]

Too bad his name is so wierd and he plays for the Hawks cause man o man hes a beauty, wish we had a young d stud like that. Hawks fans gotta be happy with him

Better check the mirror for weird name.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Dunno, giving 19 year old offensive Dman top pairing minutes is quite generous. He seems to be deserving it, though.

He absolutely deserves it. But he still, he needs to be on the PP. Hawks had a 4minute PP and the best opportunity during that time came from a leafs player short handed.

Keith has a terrible shot. Seabrook is too slow (if he fumbles the puck at the point, look out), Gustafsson has a mental fart every few minutes. And every Hawks defensemen had either one shot on goal or none tonight. Except Jokiharju, who had a whopping 5. Kid deserves to play on the PP over any other defensmen we have and hopefully Q doesn't take as long to do that as he did putting DeBrincat on the PP last year.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

He absolutely deserves it. But he still, he needs to be on the PP. Hawks had a 4minute PP and the best opportunity came from a leafs player short handed.

Keith has a terrible shot. Seabrook is too slow (if he fumbles the puck at the point, look out), Gustafsson has a mental fart every few minutes. And every Hawks defensemen had either one shot on goal or none tonight. Except Jokiharju, who had a whopping 5. Kid deserves to play on the PP over any other defensmen we have and hopefully Q doesn't take as long to do that as he did putting DeBrincat on the PP last year.

i mean why not at some point, im sure the joker will get pp1 mins sooner rather then later. (yes i just made that nick name up for him and your welcome)

 

[CallMeShaft]

i mean why not at some point, im sure the joker will get pp1 mins sooner rather then later. (yes i just made that nick name up for him and your welcome)

Seabrook already beat you to that nickname.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

Seabrook already beat you to that nickname.

he'll be gone eventually.

 

[JAS 39 Gripen]

NHL.com doesn't even have a photo for him on the leaderboards section yet. I refreshed the page three times and every other guys pictures would load but his. They weren't prepared for King Henri!

King? Finland dosnt have a royal family FYI

 

[Tage2Tuch]

Hawks need it glad they have an up and comer

Remember when people called ristolainen Norristolainen. Those were a good two weeks.

In all seriousness he is under appreciated he plays against all the tough matchups and still holds his own somewhat. Top five in PP points the last five years. But it’s fun to laugh about him winning the Norris.

 

[JetsFan815]

OP just set themselves up to be trolled if/when he goes through a rough patch and some people gleefully bump up this thread to bath in the schadenfreude.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

and just think, Joki is going to be accompanied in the next year or two by Boqvist, Mitchell and Beaudin

we are going to have a great D core

yeah so is the rest of the league by the time that comes to fruition

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Jokiharju = Karlsson
Heiskanen = Niedermayer

 

[bottomofthefoodchain]

Jokiharju = Karlsson
Heiskanen = Niedermayer

Selling them a bit short now arent we?
I was thinking Orr and Orr 2.0

 

[boyko10]

Better check the mirror for weird name.

Still, they do have some weird names tho. Kapennen, Lekhonnen, Tuevo, Filpulla etc .

 

[Kcb12345]

Jokiharju = Karlsson
Heiskanen = Niedermayer

Depends on who you ask. Heiskanen's game is extremely similar to Karlsson's as well. When he plays it looks like Karlsson out there with a 4 on his jersey. From the skating to the puck moving to the poise to the vision. I see Heiskanen compared to Niedermayer a lot though so

 

[Pez68]

He's an absolute stud. Flashbacks of Keith in his early years....

 

[myzteriouz]

Still, they do have some weird names tho. Kapennen, Lekhonnen, Tuevo, Filpulla etc .

I mean, they would be less weird if you could get at least one of them spelled right, Kapanen, Lehkonen, Teuvo (Teräväinen), Filppula
the -nen is like the Swedish -sson (American -son), so your Kapanen etc are as weird as Anderson, Johnson etc..

 

[boyko10]

I mean, they would be less weird if you could get at least one of them spelled right, Kapanen, Lehkonen, Teuvo (Teräväinen), Filppula
the -nen is like the Swedish -sson (American -son), so your Kapanen etc are as weird as Anderson, Johnson etc..

I'm Finnish.. Just trying to poke fun at how hard it seems to be for some to get these right.. I mean people can spell "Gostisbehere" but somehow "Kapanen" is just too much.

 

[RageQuit77]

With this still minuscule sample things direct rather decently for him. On pace of...

137 points (0+137=137, 109 1st assists and 28 2nd assists)
+137 in +/-.
Median time (as well as average time) of a point scored being at later half of a 3rd period to either Toews' or Kane's EV-goal.

...over full 82GP season.

 

[Crocoduck]

Depends on who you ask. Heiskanen's game is extremely similar to Karlsson's as well. When he plays it looks like Karlsson out there with a 4 on his jersey. From the skating to the puck moving to the poise to the vision. I see Heiskanen compared to Niedermayer a lot though so

I've seen you say this a lot, but I do not agree at all. I've watched Miro a lot over the last year and I do not see the Karlsson comparisons at all.

 

[Turning Mangiapanese]

Can't wait for Valimaki to get his first point so I can start a thread for him too!

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Excited about this kid for sure. Nice to see my country producing talented dmen lately.

NHL.com doesn't even have a photo for him on the leaderboards section yet. I refreshed the page three times and every other guys pictures would load but his. They weren't prepared for King Henri!

They don’t have a pic for Svechnikov, either, and he’s a high profile prospect. Nhl.com is sad.

It takes some time for the new pictures to show up, usually takes a couple weeks IIRC. For example Tavares still has his NYI picture, Kovalchuk has his old picture from Atlanta And players who have stuck with the same team have their last years photos.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Can't wait for Valimaki to get his first point so I can start a thread for him too!

Cool, but jokigod has 5....

 

[ColbyChaos]

Really impressive stuff. When will he get top PP time though? I don't see why he isn't getting used there honestly he is obviously an asset offensively

Because Dineen is scared the PP may actually do something positive.