Read Kahkonen’s scouting reports, and you’ll see a lot of the word "confident." He’s sure of himself, which is good, since he’s already playing in men’s leagues. Last year, he spent most of the season backstopping TUTO Hockey, a Finnish Mestis (second-league) team out of Turku. In fact, if you saw clips of him last year, you may have seen his most memorable clip, when he scored a goal during a TUTO Hockey playoff game. Goal scoring is not something he is expected to do, at the AHL level or the NHL level. But as the Wild’s current most promising goaltending prospect, he is expected to develop and to stop the puck when he finally comes over to North America.
HW Top 25 Under 25 # 16: Kaapo Kahkonen
