Johansson\u2019s growing confidence has gone hand in hand with his development. With Leksands IF this season, the Stockholm, Sweden, native finished with career-high totals in goals (5), assists (12) and points (17) in 42 contests.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeksands has been great to me and my family,\u201d Johansson said. \u201cWe\u2019re so happy we had those years there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last spring, when the former fourth-round pick (No. 105 overall) made his AHL debut with the Griffins, much of it felt new. Johansson acknowledged that\u2019s not the case this time around, pointing to his experience as a key difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019m more prepared this year,\u201d Johansson said. \u201cI know what this league is about, the players, the team, the system and stuff. It feels much more comfortable this year than last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johansson and Grand Rapids will try to avoid elimination in the Central Division Finals against the Chicago Wolves, with Game 3 scheduled for Tuesday night at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. The Griffins currently trail 2-0 in the best-of-five series.<\/p>\n
\u201cA great experience,\u201d Johansson said. \u201cPlaying long series and in the playoffs are things you have to go through in your career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johansson\u2019s growing confidence has gone hand in hand with his development. With Leksands IF this season, the Stockholm,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-653639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}