#9 Prospect: Teemu Hartikainen

Current Rank: #9Summer 2009: #7The draft day words of Redline Report still ring: "good size and strength, his feet are fairly heavy." That's a pretty big problem to overcome for a prospect, but Hartikainen is building a pretty nice resume.He's 6.01, 198 according to the Oilers website, making Hartikainen one of the bigger forwards at the top end of Edmonton's prospect list. He plays a gritty game and displays a willingness to go to the net. Offensively, he looks like he'll score enough to move up the minor league system (he'll be 20 next year) but his current numbers (23gp, 3-10-13) look just average when run through Desjardins (82gp, 6-19-25) NHLE.Kevin Prendergast: "He comes to play. He competes. He's got pretty good hands but his skating needs to improve a bit. He's like a poor man's Thomas Holmstrom in that he competes all over the ice."Thomas Holmstrom? In Holmstrom's 19-year old season he played in the Swe-2 league, scoring 17-15-32 in 32 games. I have no idea how to compare t...