Meet Ville Leino

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Fabian Brunnstrom may have gotten all of the attention, but the Finnish star the Red Wings scooped up might be the real free-agent prize. Meet Ville Leino. [link]

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Wings sign Finnish winger Ville Leino
Published 5/12/2008 by Christy Hammond at Behind the Jersey
... James Mirtle has a post about Leino up on his blog and he commented about a conversation he had with a Finnish hockey writer: ...

Opinions differ on Leino
Published 5/12/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... : May 11, James Mirtle : A couple weeks ago, at the height of the Fabian Brunnstrom madness, I was chatting a bit with Risto Pakarinen, a Finnish hockey writer based out of Stockholm. What I really wanted was a sense of what those who had seen Brunnstrom play thought of him, and where they pegged him as a potential NHL player. Pakarinen was relatively muted in his praise of the young Swede, but he was keen on another player. Good Finn that he is, Pakarinen wanted to let me know about a countryman named Ville Leino. "Brunnstrom is not the hottest player around here," he said. ...

A quick look at the Grand Rapids Griffins
Published 8/6/2008 by Dave at Gorilla Crouch
... in terms of his vision and playmaking ability but will get his first taste of regular AHL action. Jan Mursak and Mattias Ritola will both play on the wings on scoring lines and Finnish free agent Ville Leino will likely start the season in Grand Rapids while he gets up to speed with the North American game. He’ll join AHL super sniper ...

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Just days after the Dallas Stars landed the much-hyped Swedish talent Fabian Brunnstrom , the Detroit Red Wings have made a European signing of their own : 24-year-old Finnish Elite League star Ville Leino. Evidently, the signing was made without Red ...
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Movements in the world of hockey Monday: National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES-Agreed to terms with D Bryan Rodney on a one-year contract. DETROIT RED WINGS-Signed F Ville Leino to one-year entry level contract. MONTREAL CAN...