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One of the most decidedly finnish names and prospects out there, The Black and Gold now welcomes 18 year old defender Urho Vaakanainen from his travels on Team Finland and as a defender for JYP and Espoo Blues in the Finnish Liiga.
What are his features?
- Impressive on-ice awareness, and experience far beyond his years, playing with great anticipation of a breakout, rarely allowing rushing opportunities to get past him. Indeed, this allowed him to get into the Finnish Liiga at the ripe age of 16 for Espoo, and spend the next few years going all over for the Finnish national team before settling in with JYP for a year
- Much faster skating than you might peg a player with his skillset
- A hard shot
- Mostly universal praise of his passing accuracy, able to get long passes to rushing forwards
- Advanced awareness around the net
- Penalty killing, which as a defenseman is always a plus!