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Originally Posted by Itse

It's a very public and well known part of his background.

He's from a small northern border town of Tornio, and moved to Oulu at 13 to play hockey. Oulu is easily the biggest city in North of Finland, and has one of the best hockey organizations in the country.


All the news written about it in Finland have been very affirming, claiming he had a good support system in Oulu. And I'm sure it hasn't been a total disaster, he seems like a decent kid. But he's also very much a kid.

As a personal suspicion: Kärpät probably didn't really have 100% interest in his full development. This kid was obviously going to go overseas, so they took what they could get out of him and thought the NHL team would handle the rest. To be fair to Kärpät, any normal NHL team would probably have done the rest.

But the Oilers are not a normal organization. They don't develop players. They just play exploit them.

I fixed it.