New York Islanders prospect Jesse Nurmi signs with London Knights

The London Knights person added different National Hockey League draught prime to their roster.

On Thursday nan Knights announced that they person signed Finnish guardant Jesse Nurmi to a modular OHL Scholarship and Development Agreement.

Nurmi was selected by nan New York Islanders successful nan 4th information of nan 2023 NHL Entry Draft.

He is known for having a awesome lucky IQ and pairs that pinch power and accomplishment connected nan ice.

London drafted Nurmi 58th wide successful this summer’s CHL Import Draft aft nan Valkeala, Finland autochthonal divided nan 2023-24 play betwixt Kookoo’s apical Liiga nine and their U20 team.

He recorded amended than a constituent per crippled for Kookoo U20 and was awesome successful nan playoffs pinch 2 goals and 7 points successful 8 games.

Nurmi besides represented Finland astatine nan 2024 world inferior lucky title successful Gothenburg, Sweden. Finland made it to nan semi-finals earlier being edged 3-2 by nan eventual champion Team USA.

Nurmi is taking portion successful nan World Junior Summer Showcase from July 26 to Aug. 3, wherever he will look imaginable early Knights teammates Denver Barkey, Easton Cowan, Oliver Bonk and Sam Dickinson.

The imaginable portion of that equation will dangle connected wherever each player’s NHL squad decides to person them play successful 2023-24.

Bonk and Barkey are draught picks of nan Philadelphia Flyers, Cowan is 1 of nan apical prospects successful nan Toronto Maple Leafs strategy and Dickinson was selected 11th wide by nan San Jose Sharks this past June.

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The Islanders will person to determine whether Nurmi would beryllium served champion by a twelvemonth successful London aliases whether he should play successful nan American Hockey League pinch nan Bridgeport Sound Tigers aliases moreover return for different twelvemonth successful Finland.

The Knights still person 3 different forwards arsenic imaginable import players for 2024-25 successful Ruslan Gazizov, Kasper Halttunen and Gleb Semenov.

Halttunen is simply a second-round prime of nan Sharks and could besides play successful nan AHL.

Semenov was London’s 2nd action successful nan 2024 CHL Import Draft and Gazizov could besides activity retired options playing professionally.

The Knights will unfastened training campy successful precocious August and statesman their four-game pre-season schedule astatine location against nan Erie Otters connected Friday, Sept. 6 astatine Budweiser Gardens.