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Former Edmonton Oilers goaltender Mikko Koskinen has signed a two-year contract to play with HC Lugano in the highest league in Switzerland.
Koskinen, 33, was set to hit NHL free company, however rumors continued all through the playoffs that he was headed to the National League it doesn’t matter what. Koskinen had a 27-12-4 file with a .903 save proportion in 45 video games with the Oilers this 12 months and performed a number of reduction efforts for the membership in the course of the playoffs.
Koskinen signed a three-year deal price $4.5 million in 2019 simply three months into his tenure with Edmonton and struggled to be a gentle pressure throughout his time with the membership. Koskinen’s NHL profession started with the New York Islanders in 2010-11 earlier than returning to Europe for a lot of the 2010s.
Koskinen constructed a formidable profession for himself again in Europe, profitable the KHL’s high goaltender award in 2015, two league championships, World Championship high goaltender in 2016 with Finland and was the nationwide crew’s beginning goalie in the course of the 2018 Olympics.
Lugano has some names acquainted to NHL followers, together with Mirco Muller, Mark Arcobello, Daniel Carr and Calvin Thurkauf.