I wouldn’t get too exited just yet. Yes he’s scoring points but I feel everyone on Finland’s back end will have inflated points this year because of heinola. Heinola is literally playing 5-7 minutes a night more than every other d-man and is taking all the tough assignments (he’s getting double shifted a lot). Yes niemela is looking good, but take it with a grain of salt. He’s being played solely in an offensive capacity to create offence and that’s what he’s doing.

Just what I think after seeing what Finland so far.

I definitely wouldn’t call him the next heiskanen, not even close imo

"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't."

A 2nd and an autographed photo of Booby Orr.

A bit high

A 2nd and an autographed photo of Reed Larson. There you go.

Uh, what?

Honestly one of the funniest parts about this is you have mcavoy on the second pair.

Heiskanen wishes he was as good as Topi "the next Lidstrom" "the next Orr" Niemelä

oh man.. Niemelä is doing good for a 3rd round pick, like really good.. but please don't think hes even close to being comparable to Heiskanen

Sure as long as a TOR prospect does well in a tournament he instantly becomes a franchise level prospect.

No wonder some of them call Sandin the next Lidström.

Reed Larson played for the Bruins? I'd forgotten that.

Plenty of players have had success at the WJCs and never had success in the NHL.

Anyone taking this seriously needs to give their head a shake.

Fixed that, thanks. I agree this was the only thing not very realistic in that post.

Chances are this kid isn’t an NHL player.

Well no, it’s all insane.

i apologize for saying he looked good in a couple of my wjc prospect updates, i should’ve known better than to pay even a minor compliment to a leafs prospect

Ahh yes, and Jordan Eberle became the next great generational goal scorer, because a good world juniors = guaranteed success

Really? I thought the funniest parts was having Campbell as the starter...

jokes aren't allowed on capfriendly

Lmao this is the most Maple Leafs post ever. Guy plays good for 3 games against Switzerland, Germany and Slovakia and is now the next Heiskanen.

Hahahahahahahah yes!

I'm enjoying Cole Caufield being outscored by defenseman we picked in the 4th round.

How about an Esposito. Can get Phil to sign Thursday

I mean, he’s better than dell.

Sandin was the best defenceman prospect outside the NHL last year........put on a show at last year's World Junior Tournament........been training hard and putting on weight this summer and anticipate he is going to arrive with the Leafs.......agree with you that he has the potential to be another Lidstrom because of the way he thinks the game.....he is miles ahead of most player's in positioning and is a future first pairing defenceman for years in the NHL.

an undrafted german is currently outscoring everyone except stuetzle, zegras, peterka, and cozens lol

Lmao idk why there are so many comments, but good Jokes