The Holy Slapper found success on international ice and in the American Hockey League, but hasn't had the same scoring touch in the NHL. Is it a case of personnel misuse, or should the Red Wings move on from the Finnish forward?
There are Youtube videos dedicated to the slapshot of Teemu Pulkkinen, ones that Red Wings fans may have salivated over when he was first drafted by Detroit in the fourth round of the 2010 Draft. His skills had him originally expected to go in the first round, before a pair of surgeries (wrist and shoulder, the latter only a month before the Draft Combine) likely made teams wary of selecting the diminutive forward with the lethal shot.