Aaltonen's thoughts on playoff matchup.

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Today we caught up with Mikko Aaltonen, one of many Riga Reign's prospects, and had a brief talk with him about his team's playoff matchup.

First of all, congrats to Riga Reign for having quite a dominant season, are you satisfied with your performance in the middle of this?
"Thanks, and yeah we have been doing really well as a team, we are really deep and that depth could give us an advantage vs our opponents, personally this season wasn't the one I expected out of myself, but I gotta keep reminding myself that this is a stacked team and there's only so much ice-time each player can get, so with all the chances given I think I did as best as I could."
On to the first matchup, vs the HC Davos Dynamo, any thoughts on this matchup?
"Obviously they're a good team, they have a very strong first line, but I think we have the depth advantage on them, many players who can step up at any point in time and deliver, so we'll have capitalise on that. Throughout the season we didn't have that many problems with them, I think we went like 7-1 or something against them, so we're really confident about this matchup and it's probably one of the best we could have gotten in the first round."
Both teams kinda struggled at the end of the season, do you think that will reflect in the series?
"Hopefully not, both teams want to give it their best and impress their fans with a win, all I'm saying is that we're winning.
Could you give us a bold prediction on the series result?
"4-0"