So Leksand has signed veteran forward Tony Virta from HPK. As this blog has been hoping, a center has finally been acquired. However, is Tony Virta, a 37 year old Finn, with a chequered history the right solution? And if I understand it correctly, he prefers to play on the wings even though he is capable of playing in the middle. As always, we'll have to wait and see. Of course it is not a long term solution, and when looking at his stats, you can at least see he's had a good season in SM liiga with 18 points from 34 games (14 assists) - not sensational but still not bad, not at least considering HPK is 10th. He's second in the internal +/- table with a respectable +8 and is also second in the team in regards to ice time per game, which is an average of 17:30. Not too bad for a vintage player.
I hope he has a sensitive wrist and can at least cover a small part of the massive gap left by the departure of Challe Karlberg and Kevin Doell.
The 'new' #15.
What is good is that LIF has actually had scouts watching this player (we have signed players purely on 'recommendations' before). Hopefully this means he won't be another Grosek or Golubovsky...
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