Very underrated player, he could become NHL regullar, but alot of depends how much team wants to give looks for him. Some times as undrafted player, you gotta even have some luck in the start, because teams dont have patients.
Very strong player, physically good battle guy. Probably physically NHL readiest player that played FEL last year maybe with Savinainen but I think even readier than Savinainen.
Hard hits, strong in battle / body positition. Has good patients to make a good play, good skating. But not star caliber, I think could be high quality 3rd pairing D or even High Q 2pair.
He plays in my hometeam last 4 seasons, so Ive seen him quite alot. Last two seasons, I missed maybe 10 games and saw like 100. I think he can still take couple of more steps.
To his size, he has decent size for FEL. I think 5´11 is as stetch, downwards stretching. More like 6´0, he is over 180cm.
OT, but: What a great news for KalPa as a team, this season was 0,5M profit even before this, now its like 0,7 - 0,8M after we get the money from Riikola deal. Also last years we have got 3 other players NHL deal money, and KalPa U20 team just won FEL gold, so more young talent is still on pipeline to jump in FEL. Also Neigbhbor town team raised to Mestis lately, so young kids can be placed there too to develop. I smell FEL championship in future.
