Emil Larmi didn't have the easiest journey to Pittsburgh.
I mean "journey," literally. His trip this week from Finland to Pittsburgh in order to join the Penguins for their expanded playoff roster was a four-day ordeal with a couple of failed attempts along the way.
"It was Wednesday, everything was supposed to be alright," Larmi told me of his trip after finally arriving in Pittsburgh. "I wasn't even thinking that they wouldn't let me go, I just went to the airport. You can travel to the U.S. from Finland, there are a couple of different visas, residents and something like that.