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Friedman Says the Oilers are the Front Runners for Giant Finnish Goalie Mikko Koskinen
This sounds concerning;
Here are some scouting reports of the big guy:
Friedman Says the Oilers are the Front Runners for Giant Finnish Goalie Mikko Koskinen
This sounds concerning;
Here are some scouting reports of the big guy:
He takes up a ton of net and he is difficult to beat when he has time to square up to the shooter. Predictably, he struggles a bit with his mobility and regularly ends up scrambling. However, he is extremely flexible for a man his size. That combined with his long limbs helps Koskinen make up for whatever deficiencies exist in his lateral movement. Brent Craswell (link)
Koskinen’s greatest asset is his size, which he uses to seemingly fill the entire net and he covers a lot of space in the butterfly. He is inexperienced in terms of the number of games played and has not had a lot of international experience – excelling in the SM-Liiga where he ordinarily does not see the booming slapshots or accurate snipers more common in North America. Still learning as a goaltender, he must work to improve his quickness and foot speed
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So Like Nillson just another goalie that is big but that is not good fundamentally and that has problems with mobility. That should work out well here in the NHL (sarcasm)
Apparently Koskinen is unorthodox, not a form goalie. Just using his size to try to get it done. With other comments suggesting his success in KHL is very team related. In 2016 hockey world championships he was playing behind a Finnish team that was pretty stingy defensively as well. Good team play can mask a lot of problems.
Koskinen’s greatest asset is his size, which he uses to seemingly fill the entire net and he covers a lot of space in the butterfly. He is inexperienced in terms of the number of games played and has not had a lot of international experience – excelling in the SM-Liiga where he ordinarily does not see the booming slapshots or accurate snipers more common in North America. Still learning as a goaltender, he must work to improve his quickness and foot speed
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So Like Nillson just another goalie that is big but that is not good fundamentally and that has problems with mobility. That should work out well here in the NHL (sarcasm)
Apparently Koskinen is unorthodox, not a form goalie. Just using his size to try to get it done. With other comments suggesting his success in KHL is very team related. In 2016 hockey world championships he was playing behind a Finnish team that was pretty stingy defensively as well. Good team play can mask a lot of problems.