The Finnish Mafia isn't hard to find.
It's a trio of franchise building blocks -- center Roope Hintz and defensemen Miro Heiskanen and Esa Lindell -- that's nearly inseparable off the ice. They walk into arenas together. They leave together. They share a corner in the American Airlines Center dressing room, where Finnish in the first language and where Hintz and Heiskanen are perhaps the most talkative.
And so, general manager Jim Nill dubbed the three players the "Finnish Mafia" during exit interviews earlier this month.
"Between Lindell, Heiskanen and Roope walking around," Nill said, "that's our future.