Position: Defense
Shoots: Right
Born: May 15, 1997
Height: 5’9"
Weight: 163 lbs
Drafted: Detroit - 2015 3rd Round, 73rd Overall
Vili Saarijärvi has been on quite the odyssey for a 19-year-old hockey player. Journeying from his native Finland to Green Bay, being drafted by the Red Wings then winding up in one of the strangest team situations we have seen in a long time with the Flint Firebirds, his career has already had a fair amount of turbulence.
Throughout all of this, he has still kept smiling and creating offense from the blue line, which is exactly what we need him to do.