We’re going over the tragedy of Jesperi Kotkaniemi following his umpteenth scratch for the Carolina Hurricanes last night vs the Montreal Canadiens.
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This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter
This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.
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37 Comments
Should of,Would of,Could of! His career was derailed with KK unfortunately being a pawn in the ego and business side of the game. Hopefully he will be seen as a player instead of an asset.
This just makes me sad. Dude had promise hope he can turn things around
Kapanen, is what Kotkaniemi should have been.
Who will pick up KK next year?
KK has the size and skills to be a solid player but he's not. It must be mental or confidence. To give him credit, his face offs have improved.
You keep riding this KK Train! Canadians turned that 1st rd pick into C.Dvorak! Please! How that turn out? Plus KK is the 87th paid center in the league. Plus, Canadians are paying Danault 5.5 million for a 16 points in 64 games. KK has 9 points in 34 games. You’re so weak fundamentally.
Honesty kinda forgot he existed and the what team he was on. As a Habs fan.
Victim of a petty game played by an owner's ego.
His agent is an idiot.
What a petty little post.
Only 4 players in the top 10 turned out much good. Not going to cry much about taking KK over Tkachuk. Might have missed out on Slaf, Demidov, Hage etc if Tkachuk would have improved Montreal a bit. In long run things might have worked out for the best.
The Cane’s trolled us so hard and now they have so much egg on their face. I love it.
Wondering if the KK saga would have had a completely different turn, had he had a coach like MSL to develop him. Coach turned Caufield into a complete player, so maybe he could have worked some magic with KK. Of course, it would have depended on KK's openness to suggestion, willingness to accept criticism and to put in a lot of extra effort.
I didn't like that lanky plug since the first day we drafted him.
Kotkaniemi doesn't care, he's getting paid big money!
To think that the Canes offered Koko to the Kings for Danault while Marc Bergevin was senior advisor to the GM in L.A. … the nerve!
kk is crying all the way to the bank!
He was always a headscratcher draft. It was such a stroke of luck for Montreal.
as long as they remain slayers of the offer sheet, the Hurricanes will be good. What other ones have they done since??
Kotkaniemi is done. Karma caught up to him. I despise him and Radulov. But, look at the CH now. Guys signing contracts and leaving money on the table so they can play with their mates.
Can't believe we had a chance of drafting Brady Tkachuk or Quinn Hughes instead of this flop
Karma!!! In your face Carolina!
So glad it blew up in Carolinas face. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving team.
It was a failed Montreal draft pick who could have picked a franchise player. Picks they received so far have not produced much. It would suggest both teams lost. No winners.
KK needs to play high in the line up at least as a 2nd line centre. He probably needs to go to a team with a long way to go to make the playoffs so he can play lots of minutes to get his confidence up.
there's still no dismissing the fact that we still lost out here by taking him over Brady Tkachuk/Quinn Hughes in the first place. The Canes merely helped get us of the hook but thats it. We still wasted a 3rd overall pick here.
Who's the AHO now? 😜
He got his big payday no tragedy here.
Starting today, March 27-2026 Dobes (DOBY) won't achieve
a 50% win ratio for the remaining regular season games.
KK and Lekhonen were key pieces for the Habs reaching the cup final
Seems like Mark Bergevin's Aho offer sheet backfire may actually have been a 4D chess mastermind move where MTL and KK both won in the end.
Wow, this is a little revisionist, no? Carolina didn't offer sheet Kotkaniemi because of the Aho situation, they just poked fun at Montreal when they did it. Montreal didn't choose to not match, they couldn't match because they didn't have the cap space.
he had a good 1st season…but Montreal is party town across nhl ..at 18yo you must have discipline to not fall into night life…we have several example…ribeiro galchenyuk both kostitsyn higgins michael ryder Price almost fell into it Jose Theodore and many many more…
Financially at least, Jesperi is the luckiest player in NHL history….lol
You seem to envy the money KK has been paid, because you enjoy for time to time that KK has not stolen a #3 draft position, he was drafted by the GM Bergevin, he was paid by the Hurricanes, unfortunately he was not the type of players Rod Brond´amour needed.
I loved this guy in Montreal. It’s sad the whole situation. A redemption story is needed back in Montreal as a 4th line Center.
Pierre-Luc Dubois? Never played for the habs wtf
It’s 30th March and Montreal beat the KK Carolinas again last night! I didn’t like KK in Montreal, I thought vastly overrated! 5 wins in a row for the Habs!