He was one of the most noticable players on the ice vs Luleå. Skated extremely well and was much better defensively than he was last year, forechecked the puck away from the defender two times.
Didn't get that much icetime on 5vs5 since both teams took a lot of penalties and Kärpät played all 4 lines evenly but he definitely stood out in a good way.
Turned over the puck without much pressure a few times in the first period, but got better when the game went on. He tries to carry the puck himself a bit too much on the center ice and needs to pass it earlier.
Kärpät used pretty random PP units and looked like they haven't been practicing it that much. Puljujärvi played about 3 minutes on the powerplay total and got some one timers away from the left side but didn't score. Seemed to have some chemistry with Niemi on the PP already which is good to see this early.
Sure his finishing could be better but at this point it's more important for him to be able to play good two way game. His offensive game will improve once he gets comfortable with the system.
Aaltonen, Ikonen, Kalapudas and Huml were all worse than Puljujärvi so I'm not really worried about him.