BUFFALO -- Jesse Puljujarvi didn't hesitate when asked if he could play in the NHL next season.
"Of course I'm ready," Puljujarvi, a 6-foot-3, 203-pound right wing with Karpat in Liiga, Finland's top professional league, said Friday at the NHL Scouting Combine. "I'm a good skater and I'm a good player and I'm ready to play."
Puljujarvi, the No. 3 player on NHL Central Scouting's final ranking of international skaters for the 2016 NHL Draft, isn't the only top prospect with NHL aspirations for next season. But Puljujarvi, who could be picked in the top three when the draft is held at First Niagara Center in Buffalo on June 24-25, has the game to match that confidence.