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Teemu Kivihalme Tapped For Nashville NHL Team
The Burnsville native trained under his Finnish father.
A Burnsville High School student is headed off to Nashville, TN to play for the NHL's Nashville Predators.
Teemu Kivihalme was drafted in the fifth round, according to USA Today.
Kivihalme had previously planned to attend Colorado College and play NCAA hockey in the fall of 2014, according to The Western College Hockey Blog. Under his father's tutelage, he regularly visited his father's home country of Finland to train with Finnish hockey players, the website reported.
Kivihalme's stats can be viewed on EliteProspects.com.
Read the rest of the Western College Hockey Blog's analysis of Kivihalme's game and potential on WesternCollegeHockeyBlog.com
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