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Vancouver Canucks prospect Jonathan Lekkerimaki scored his third purpose within the first three video games of the SHL season, netting the winner for Orebro of their 2-1 win over Lulea on Thursday.
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The purpose got here 5 minutes into the third interval, with the Canucks’ fifteenth total choose in 2022 taking a move within the excessive slot and snapping the puck into the highest of the web.
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It stood up because the game-winner.
“It feels good, enjoyable to attain and powerful that we flip the sport round. It’s enjoyable to attain targets and I simply attempt to do my finest,” Lekkerimaki, 19, stated publish sport.
Lekkerimaki, a highly-skilled 5-foot-11, 172-pound right-shot ahead, scored two energy play targets within the first two video games.
The three targets match Lekkerimaki’s complete output in 29 common season video games final 12 months, in a marketing campaign marred by accidents and sickness.
Solely three junior-aged gamers have ever scored within the first three video games of the SHL season: Thomas Gradin, Peter Forsberg and Markus Naslund.
Gradin performed eight seasons with the Canucks, from 1978-86, whereas Naslund is a former captain and performed 12 seasons in Vancouver.
Elsewhere: 2020 third-round choose Joni Jurmo picked up his first level of the Liiga season on Wednesday, helping on the game-winning purpose for Ilves in a 4-2 win over Lukko.