Mikko Koivu

Go ahead.

He came in in the playoffs and he changed the way, uh, Mikko Koivu said his name, where he said, "Well, the actual Finnish pronunciation is more like Granlund." And I said, "Okay, but I asked the player, and the player said Granlund.

So I know that, you know, you might have some, you might be an expert in the ways of linguistics around the world-"

[laughs]

So it's almost like you've got to look for a guy that's sort of been on the team.

And by the way, just to let everybody know, Mikko Koivu is not one of the guys to

use.

Yeah, I also

Any reports, this is from Bill VanVegel, any reports on the following Habs prospects, Timofey Runco, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right, I apologize.

If not, Vincent Rohrer and Athos Koivu.

Any of them have a future? I think the

last two both have an opportunity to play.

Koivu had military service that he had to deal with.

I was with Saku last May.

in Angleholm, Sweden.

I did an extra one with Arizona and Utah just because, you know.

But Minnesota, all I had was Mikko Koivu.

Backstrom, Nicholas Backstrom, Spurgeon, and Kaprizov.

And I guess Gabrick you can add in there too.

[laughs]

Right by Koivu, or bring Koivu's down.

Let's bring him home.

Bring-

It is funny.

A lot of people want to come out of the woodwork, too, and be like, yeah, like, fuck Suter and Parisi, but Miko Koivu is untainted.

Like, no, dude.

Like, he, like, consummate pro like the way that he like handles the game whatever but like dude is an asshole that's fine he was look at he's got his number hanging in the rafters so

I'm gonna give Mats.

Saku Koivu.

Yes.

And I will give Rick's, Scott Gom- no, I'm just kidding.

Right there.

[laughs]

I got, you can't see it well 'cause now it's kind of further in the background, but I got a Koivu card like right, oh, wait, no.

This way.

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First up, do you remember when we talked about Atos Koivu earlier this summer and why he wasn't at development camp?

Yeah, which was it was sad not to see him there because we know how he had made a connection the previous year.

And we're looking to see some growth.

Nicely done.

It was the picture.

There's a story on TBS4 about how Koivu spent his summer.

It was a grueling four months of military service, fulfilling that mandatory military requirement in Finland.

We know what a great defensive player he is.

Can he get better in the faceoff circle, a place that he has struggled immensely, but the rest of his game, You know, if I look back at to when Eck and Mikko Koivu were first starting, they were both really strong defensive players.

And they were, I think, assets because of that.

And Yurov has all of those skills.