Koskinen has overcome the stigma of being a 'bad contract.' He has persevered through the knowledge that almost every shooter in the NHL would go glove side. And, this fall, he's walked into the Oilers' net and carried the load. (SportsnetSpec)
Hey — we’ve seen a lot of bad contracts, and plenty of bad GMs in our day. But the mix here was so acute, the timing so ridiculous, you had to wonder how something so inane could be allowed to take place?
Heck, Koskinen makes more than two times the salary of the guy he backs up, Mike Smith, whose cap hit is $2.2 million.What if Koskinen started playing like a $4.
There are, I have found over the years, two prevalent Finnish personalities: Effervescent types like Teemu Selanne, Janne Niinimaa or Ville Nieminen, with sharp senses of humour and a Nordic joie de vivre — elämisen iloa — that made them some of the great personalities in the game. “Like I said before the season started, I just want to have fun no matter what happens,” the 33-year-old said. “I want it to be fun on the ice, that is my mindset that I have. I am going to try to keep doing that.”
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