Center Aatu Räty is a consensus first-round pick in the 2021 NHL draft. But the Finnish forward is playing on a slippery slope.
Montreal Canadiens’ 2018 third-overall pick Jesperi Kotkaniemi is a close comparable to Räty in his Draft-1 season.
But in their respective draft years, Kotkaniemi takes a huge step forward in production (29 points in 57 Liiga ga…
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