DARRAGH:\u00a0What was the trade day like for you and\u00a0finding out you were\u00a0coming to the Florida Panthers?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI:\u00a0Obviously\u00a0super excited and happy to be part of Panthers organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH: Now that you are here in Florida,\u00a0how does it feel to be a Panther now?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI: It feels great.\u00a0I feel like it’s\u00a0a\u00a0really good organization, and I’m really happy to get started.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH: What\u00a0have\u00a0the first\u00a0impressions\u00a0been\u00a0of the facility and South Florida?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI: It’s\u00a0great.\u00a0Florida is\u00a0obviously one of the best places in the world,\u00a0and the rink is really nice too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH:\u00a0How can a camp like this help with getting comfortable with the organization?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI: Just get to know coaches and the other prospects, and just\u00a0to get\u00a0better every day\u00a0on the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH:\u00a0What are you hoping to get out of this week\u00a0on the ice?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI:\u00a0Just hope to learn some\u00a0little things\u00a0through my game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH:\u00a0Outside of\u00a0the hockey, what are you hoping to do in Florida?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI:\u00a0Just\u00a0go\u00a0walk around and see some\u00a0places, and\u00a0go to some of the restaurants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH:\u00a0There are a lot of Finnish players in the organization.\u00a0How does that help with coming to a new team?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI:\u00a0It helps a lot.\u00a0I actually train with Niko Mikkola during the summer, so I can ask him questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH:\u00a0What have you learned from Mikkola while training with him?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI:\u00a0Works hard every\u00a0day, and\u00a0just being a great guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DARRAGH:\u00a0Is there a player you watched growing up that you tried to model your game after?\u00a0<\/p>\n
PIENINIEMI:\u00a0Miro Heiskanen\u00a0(on the Dallas Stars).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DARRAGH:\u00a0What was the trade day like for you and\u00a0finding out you were\u00a0coming to the Florida Panthers?\u00a0 PIENINIEMI:\u00a0Obviously\u00a0super excited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-324980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}