Hockey|Atro Leppänen made the second diva to the NHL.
SM league super Atro Leppänen The career path seeks peer.
The story is like straight from the fairy tale. From the hobby of the small village Divarine Society, first rocket to the national top, from there to the national team and all the way to the NHL.
Leppänen, 26, an incredible career development brought a new magnificent milestone late on Sunday evening when the NHL club Edmonton Oilers announced that they had signed a one-year income contract with a Finnish defender.
“This is a dream for every hockey player to get there to play and create a career. After all, this is the fulfillment of the little boy’s dreams,” Leppänen felt on Monday.
Leppänen describes his moods as moderately high when the name was finally in a fabled NHL.
“I was just out when it was confirmed. I went inside and informed the betrothal.
Leppänen The NHL agreement began to realize over the spring as he dominated the SM League at an unprecedented pace.
“It was already known in the winter that there was interest in different teams. In the last one and a half months there was a little more interest in Edmonton and communication was intensified,” he said.
So there was a choice from NHL clubs?
“Not impossible now, but there were a few clubs there.”
Leppänen believes that the Oilers star cream, who plays high -octane slide, is best suited to her.
“I see that as a good place. Edmonton is an interesting team to follow. That’s why I feel that it is a good place for myself to develop and get the screen.”
Has captain Connor McDavid has already received a congratulations?
“Not yet.”
Atro Leppänen played in the cannon season in Sport.
According to Leppänen, there were no discussions with the Oilers club leadership that he would move on for the rest of the season according to the NHL club if the Oilers season continues to the playoffs.
“At least not yet. Now the focus is on the national team,” said Leppänen, who traveled to Gothenburg on Monday with the Lions.
“At the moment, the main thing is to get to the World Cup. What may have happened after that, there was no talk in the direction of Edmonton,” Leppänen said.
NHL Utopia looked like a few years ago.
Until six years ago, Leppänen played Lätkä in his homeowner in Mänttä in a northeast-Pirka reel. The team played in Division II, the fourth highest league level in Finland.
Along with gaming, Leppänen considered himself in bread by working, for example, as a assistant boy at a local tire company, sometimes at the Vilppula sawmill and in the summer factories.
For the next three seasons, Leppänen played in Mestis in KeuPa HT. From 2022 to 23, a fierce vertical rise began when Leppänen first crushed the defender score (51, 23+35 = 58) on the Kiekko-Espoo championship team).
After Mestis, Leppänen moved to the Finnish Champions League in Vaasa Sport, where he rose to the national team in his arrival.
Atro Leppänen became a league star in Sport.
This season Leppänen shone as the superior number one in the SM League regular season.
The skilled reel defender won the first defender of all time with the power output of the SM League points exchange 21+42 = 63. The balance is also a new point record for league defenders.
The Ice Hockey Editors (Lasse Oksanen Prize) and Fellowships (Golden Helmet Prize) voted him to be the best player in the league.
Next season, Leppänen was originally supposed to move to the Swedish SHL.
As the interest from the NHL began to grow, he did not hesitate to grab the NHL for a moment. Now is his life seam to get the foot between the door on the show.
“In the early part of the season, the NHL did not come to mind, but as the games went well and there was more interest, little by little it started to feel like if the place came, I would go there for next season,” Leppänen said.
Puckpedian Leppänen’s salary in the NHL is $ 877,500. In addition, the $ 97,500 signature bonus was immediately hit by the account. If the place of the NHL does not open, Leppänen’s salary in the AHL is $ 85,000.
Leppänen’s NHL agreement will bring about € 125,000 to the Vaasa Sport cashier.
The NHL pays a contract for a European player for $ 285,000. The amount is divided between the player’s four -seasons club, meaning it takes two seasons to Sport. The rest for the hockey Espoo and KeuPa.