Over the next 5 weeks, Hockey Wilderness writers will be bringing you profiles of the Top-25 Minnesota Wild players under the age of 25, as determined by a combination of our personal rankings.
Even though taking a step down in the rankings for this year Kähkönen is still improving. After having acquires a reputation as a goal scorer he failed to score even one goal this year, but to make up for that by winning a gold medal at the World Juniors.
Kähkönen made a step from Mestis (second highest level league in Finland) to Liiga (highest tier league in Finland) and got responsibility as a split starter playing 27 games.