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Pittsburgh Penguins prospect Ville Koivunen is easily one of the team's most promising youngsters. The 22-year-old forward ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins are currently in the middle of a retool/rebuild. Because of this, one of their primary goals from ...
Ville Koivunen acknowledges there is pressure in being one of the prospects the Pittsburgh Penguins received in a blockbuster trade that sent popular All-Star forward Jake Guentzel to the Carolina ...
Finnish winger Ville Koivunen got the briefest of tastes of the AHL last season. Koivunen, who just turned 21 in June, spent last season playing for Karpat of the top Finnish league, and he had a ...
Ville Koivunen’s parents are both doctors. His father Petri is a head and neck surgeon, while his mother Riitta is an IVF doctor. Riitta never thought she’d become a hockey mom, but Ville ...
Considering Koivunen has all of 14 career games on this continent — including 12 with the AHL’s Chicago Wolves in 2022-23 — it might be a bit premature to pencil him into the lineup for the ...
Koivunen nearly matched that total again in the next year, netting 28 points in 52 games. But his struggle to cross the 30-point threshold was matched by just one goal in 12 AHL games at the end ...
PITTSBURGH -- Ville Koivunen and Rutger McGroarty, the Penguins' top two prospects, were 'great,' per Mike Sullivan, upon being recalled for a 1-0 overtime win over the Senators tonight at PPG ...
Ville Koivunen found himself occupying such rarefied air during his first taste of NHL play with the Pittsburgh Penguins, operating on the top line alongside Bryan Rust and future first-ballot Hall of ...
During Kyle Dubas’ time in Toronto, they had Ville Koivunen highly rated going into the 2021 NHL Draft. While Koivunen ultimately went to Carolina in the second round (51st overall), Dubas ...
Making the switch from playing professional hockey in Finland to North America comes with a series of adjustments. So far, forward Ville Koivunen is tackling those challenges head-on in his first ...
Ville Koivunen poured in two goals Monday night, as Finland improved to 2-0 in its early run at the world junior hockey championship with a 7-1 victory over Austria 7-1 in Canada.