After a slow start to his NHL career, Oliver Kapanen has quietly been putting together an excellent rookie season, leading the league in goals among rookies.
Oliver Kapanen has gone from a player who struggled to find the back of the net in his first 18 games of his career to being tied for the league lead in rookie goalscoring. Kapanen might not have had the same amount of pressure as Ivan Demidov coming into this season, but some believed he could be the future second-line centre of the Montreal Canadiens, as soon as this season.