Hakan Andersson wasn't sure about the reports he was getting.

Mattias Ritola is working hard? No way. He's running at the crack of dawn? You must be joking. The lazy guy with the bad reputation? Yeah, sure.

"I said, 'This is not the Ritola I have seen,'" the Detroit Red Wings' director of European scouting told NHL.com. "I did some more research and then I met him and he said, 'I want to get rid of this label on me.' So we decided to pick him."

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