Mikko Koskinen Autograph Card

Slowly but surely, Mikko Koskinen is fulfilling what many scouts - and particularly the New York Islanders' - saw in him when he became the first goalie drafted in 2009, at the 31st spot.

Though he left North America as the 2011-12 season began to return to the Kuopio KalPa ("Kalevan Pallo") and later the KHL, where his statistics are pretty much off the charts; he finished the 2014-15 season with a 1.89 GAA and .927 save percentage with SKA Saint Petersburg to end the regular season, and followed that up with a 1.61 GAA and .936 save percentage in 22 playoff games to help his team capture the Gagarin Cup.

In 2015-16, his regular-season stats were closer to average (2.42, .915%), but come playoff time, he did even better than last year, with a 1.47 GAA and .949 percentage.

He also claimed both Best Goaltender awards (by tournament organizers and the press) at the 2016 World Championships and made the All-Star Team as Team Finland captured the silver medal; Connor McDavid was the lone Team Canada player to score on him in the Final.

I think he certainly qualifies as one of the 60 best goalies in the world, probably even top-30 - which means should he want to return to the NHL, he'd probably find a suitor.

In the meantime, the only team he's ever known are the Isles, and he does look good in their blue (home) uniform, as can be attested by card #128 from Panini's 2011-12 Dominion collection:

It's signed on-card in blue sharpie and is numbered 60/199.

Here he is making a spectacular knob save:

Mikko Koskinen Redemption Autograph Card

Mikko Koskinen was the New York Islanders' second-round pick (31st overall) in 2009, so you'd think they would have given ample time and space to become a regular NHL player, but luck and circumstances had other plans.

Two games in his first North American season (with the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers), he suffered a torn labrum in  his hip which caused him to miss most of the season save for 6 ECHL games to regain form and 7 playoff games.

2010-11 saw him play the bulk of the Sound Tigers' games and 4 with the Isles (including his first NHL win against the Montréal Canadiens), but he kind of fell out of favour the next year, as Kevin Poulin and Anders Nilsson got the AHL spots and Evgeni Nabokov, Rick DiPietro and Al Montoya battled it out in the NHL, so Koskinen made the move back to his native Finland.

He is currently playing for Sibir Novosibirsk Oblast in the KHL.

This card was a redemption from a pack of Panini's 2011-12 Score (card #520 of the Hot Rookies sub-set) and is signed in blue sharpie on a sticker. It shows him wearing the Isles least-awful white (away) uniform: