Jeesus ofc I've biased opinion about Mikkola or every finn player in NHL. So ofc you guys needs to filter something what I say, but doesn't that been the obvious case all years what I've been here?
But I like how you guys keep pushing me and rag me about it. Tho you can't compare Lindbohm vs. Mikkola at any day. They do have some similarity, but Mikkola's potential is pretty much top4 dmen who'll be dmen who'll take biggest load of icetime at PK and shutdown opposite team forwards. He'll never be 50 point dmen, but you can see in his game that he is eager to take a part on o-zone plays and cycles. He doesn't have Parayko slapper, but its good one. His weakest link in his game is carrying the puck, 'cus in his gamestyle is fast and simple passes, nothing flashy. But when he decides to hold the puck and make a plays, he has skills to do it. Tonight it showed well when he hold the puck, and make it room for himself when there was no passing lane and do it Pietro's foot work at blueline east - west and shoot the puck. He's in couple days 22-years old. 22-years old. He has time and room for mature and progress.
I just say he has his flaws, but 5th round pick, we've really black horse on our prospect pool. Stacked at dmens. Btw which leaves out maybe, maybe we could re-evaluate our dmen prospect pool after training camp who's expendable and could use him to trade package in bigger deal.