Finland’s Kasper Halttunen knows exactly who he’d like to team up with if he could skate with any players in hockey history.
“I can be boring and smart and say [Wayne] Gretzky as the centre, and Jaromir Jagr on the left wing,” said the all-star London Knights power forward with a grin. “And I’ll go with [Miro] Heiskanen and [Cale] Makar on the back end and Pekka Rinne as the goalie.”
Well, that hardly sounds boring!
Let’s face it: you probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that players at the IIHF World Junior Championship want to work hard, stick to their system, and focus on their next game. You can find that out in any post-game scrum.
So IIHF.com decided to dig a little deeper for some…