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Blatantly stolen from a Red Wing fan living in Finland:
Here's an interesting take on Ville Leino off this blog.
A couple weeks ago, at the height of the Fabian Brunnstrom madness, I was chatting a bit with Risto Pakarinen, a Finnish hockey writer based out of Stockholm. What I really wanted was a sense of what those who had seen Brunnstrom play thought of him, and where they pegged him as a potential NHL player.
Pakarinen was relatively muted in his praise of the young Swede, but he was keen on another player. Good Finn that he is, Pakarinen wanted to let me know about a countryman named Ville Leino.
"Brunnstrom is not the hottest player around here," he said. "This guy is."
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