A little background, drafted 35th overall by Chicago in the 2nd round of 2010 entry. Was ranked as the 5th European skater going into the draft. Taken 23rd overall in the KHL entry.

So my question is, does anyone have any updates on how this kid is developing? Is he still 2-3 years away? Is he going to be a real gem? Upside? I haven't found much of anything about him other than his stats and the draft information.

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10 Team Yahoo Roto
Keep 6F, 3D, 1G (to max 4 years)
4C,4LW,4RW,6D,2G,5BN,2IR Roto-play 90games/position
Player: G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, FW
Goalie: W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO

C: 3-Backstrom, 1-Getzlaf, Kesler, Ribiero, Stepan
LW: 2-Zetterberg(c), 1-Hall, 2-Benn(c), Pacioretty,
RW: 1-P.Kane(c), Wheeler, Burrows, Brunner, Silfverberg
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G: 2-Quick, Brodeur, Dubnyk, Emery
IR: Malone

#- denotes number of years I have kept a player.

I wanted to bump this one, since I'm kind of wondering about this guy as well. I know he had a very good U18 tournament last season, but wasn't able to crack the WJC roster for Sweden. He's dominated the J20 league it looks like, and stat-wise he did alright in his callup to the Allsvenskan this season, but wasn't able to do much in the SEL.

Any information would be appreciated.

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20 Team Dynasty (points per) - G (25, 50 for defense) A (25) PIM (3) +/- (5) PPG (15) SHG (25) OTG (15) GWG (25) HTr (50) GP (2) HIT (1) BLK (1) Use actual NHL salary

F: Malkin, Tavares, E. Kane, Parenteau, Havlat, Tarasenko, Galchenyuk, Brunner, Boyes, Kruger, Helm, M. Martin, Bergenheim, Carcillo, Stajan

D: Green, Ehrhoff, Ekman-Larsson, Coburn, Daley, Postma

G: Fleury, Mason, Montoya

Farm: Grigorenko, Grimaldi, Kucherov, D. Shore, Hartikainen, Stransky, Kerdiles, Joensuu, Pageau, Murphy, Ceci, Klefbom, Thrower, Donovan, Ekholm, Lehner, Dansk, Poulin, Nilsson, Andersen

This is from people on HFBoards (Swedish posters):

That doesn't bode well... No good.

**ck, I traded down to get him too thinking I was getting a possible steal!

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10 Team Yahoo Roto
Keep 6F, 3D, 1G (to max 4 years)
4C,4LW,4RW,6D,2G,5BN,2IR Roto-play 90games/position
Player: G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, FW
Goalie: W, GAA, SV, SV%, SHO

C: 3-Backstrom, 1-Getzlaf, Kesler, Ribiero, Stepan
LW: 2-Zetterberg(c), 1-Hall, 2-Benn(c), Pacioretty,
RW: 1-P.Kane(c), Wheeler, Burrows, Brunner, Silfverberg
D: 2-Edler, 1-Yandle, 1-Subban, Carlson, Zidlicky, J.Faulk, Souray
G: 2-Quick, Brodeur, Dubnyk, Emery
IR: Malone

#- denotes number of years I have kept a player.

Nice update Big EV, as always.

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N Backstrom - P Marleau - P Sharp
A Tanguay - T Purcell - M Hossa
D Perron - BJ Crombeen - K Clifford
R Clune - T Kennedy - T Jackman

D Keith - J Schultz
B Dillon - S Salo
V Voynov - R Ellis

C Price

Z Dalpe, T Wandell, J Leopold , T Vokoun, R Bachman


Farm: M Hrivlik, J Audy-Marchessault, P Cehlin, S Wilson, T Blugers, B Hart, K, Agostino, C Blackwell, P McNally, B Lamb, A Sergeev, J Janus, M Mahalak, K Ramo, S Aittkallio...

30 team salary cap with 30 NHL roster & 30 prospects plus unsigned prospects = ZFHL also (DTDL and Scfhl2)

Well tbh, he does kind of look like a douche. Damn now not only when we draft to we have to take into account the KHL/SEL/other Euro league factor, we have to factor in how much of a douche bag the kid is.

Drafting gets harder every year.

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20 Team Dynasty (points per) - G (25, 50 for defense) A (25) PIM (3) +/- (5) PPG (15) SHG (25) OTG (15) GWG (25) HTr (50) GP (2) HIT (1) BLK (1) Use actual NHL salary

F: Malkin, Tavares, E. Kane, Parenteau, Havlat, Tarasenko, Galchenyuk, Brunner, Boyes, Kruger, Helm, M. Martin, Bergenheim, Carcillo, Stajan

D: Green, Ehrhoff, Ekman-Larsson, Coburn, Daley, Postma

G: Fleury, Mason, Montoya

Farm: Grigorenko, Grimaldi, Kucherov, D. Shore, Hartikainen, Stransky, Kerdiles, Joensuu, Pageau, Murphy, Ceci, Klefbom, Thrower, Donovan, Ekholm, Lehner, Dansk, Poulin, Nilsson, Andersen

Here's a tip: don't draft people who everyone says is a steal. In the end they don't turn out to be steals.

Example: every single recent Detroit Red Wing draft pick.

You don't think Pulkkinen was a steal? (if Sentium is reading this thread, apologies if I spelt it wrong... haha)

Not yet, no.

All 30 other teams didn't just forget about him when passing on him for 3+ rounds.