Atro Leppänen’s Grit Tested: Can He Shock Everyone and Secure a Spot with the Oilers?
He said he had no interest in anything beyond hockey. “I mean, I was pretty young and had no really interest in going to school, yet I didn’t really have anything that I else that I wanted to do. So why not just play? It wasn’t really that hard of a decision, I wasn’t thinking about too much about quitting and stuff like that most of the time. So it was just to play and had nothing else to do. So why not?”
His hard work has paid off. The defenseman signed a one-year deal with the Oilers, and while his immediate path might lead him to the AHL, head coach Kris Knoblauch didn’t rule out a scenario where Leppänen could get NHL games.
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