A former first-round pick of the
Boston Bruins (29th overall in 2002),
Hannu Toivonen was chosen ahead of
Duncan Keith (53rd),
Johnny Boychuk (61st),
Matthew Lombardi (90th),
Valtteri Filppula (95th),
Maxime Talbot (234th),
Dennis Wideman (241st) and
Jonathan Ericsson (291st).
He played 61 games over the course of 3 seasons in the NHL, with a 18-24-10 record, a 3.37 GAA and a .890 save percentage. After years in the AHL farm teams of the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks, Toivonen returned to Europe in 2011, only to come back in North America (in the ECHL) because his team ran into some financial problems.
He can be seen here in the Bruins' white uniform:
It's an 8x10 picture/card from Upper Deck's 2006-07 Be A Player Portraits (the Signature Portraits sub-set, #SP-HT). I had initially found a copy in a pack, but as I was sorting through my things, I seemed to have lost it; to replace it, I purchased this one off Ebay for... $1.25.
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