The Colorado Avalanche’s most recent Scandinavian team addition, Andreas Martinsen, plays some ugly hockey. He’s a perfectly fine skater, as you’d expect from a European NHLer, but he doesn’t display a lot of the finesse typical of Euro-trained players.
That may well earn him a more permanent spot on the Colorado Avalanche.
Andreas Martinsen is practically defenseman size at 6-foot-3, 220 pounds. (In fact, he outsizes Francois Beauchemin by a couple inches and 12 pounds — we won’t even get into the Tyson Barrie discussion.)
What’s more, Andreas Martinsen skates around like a big man with a slight chip on his shoulder.