Though we provided some basic information and stats the day defenseman Juuso Riikola signed a one-year, entry-level contract with the Penguins, a proper scouting report of the undrafted 24-year-old was hard to come by. Apart from some high compliments from Finnish-centric Twitter pages and a few Hockey Prospectus articles by The Athletic’s prospect guru Corey Pronman that ranked him No. 220 out of 250 prospects in a class that contained tons of future stars like Jonathan Drouin, Nathan MacKinnon, Seth Jones, and Aleksander Barkov in its top five from 2013, we don’t really know much about him.
Pros and Cons: scouting newest Penguins’ defenseman Juuso Riikola
