WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a dressing room jam packed with NHL stars.
There’s Mikko Koivu. A couple stalls away is Valtteri Filppula. Over in goalie corner sits Tuukka Rask and Pekka Rinne.
Jori Lehtera, Aleksander Barkov, Teuvo Teravainen, Olli Maatta, Mikael Granlund — if they’re Finnish and can play hockey at a high level, they’re in that room somewhere.
And yet, for two days here this week in the bowels of the Verizon Center, the media mostly walked by all of them to get to the far corner of the Finland dressing room, where an 18-year-old blonde kid wearing a Winnipeg Jets T-shirt sat.