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Joonas Rask News

The Predators has assigned forward Joonas Rask to Milwaukee. Rask recently completed his fifth season in the Finnish Elite League with Jokerit.

Rask posted 10 points (5g-5a) in 52 games with Jokerit in 2012-13. In 2011 Finnish Elite League games with Ilves and Jokerit since 2008-09, the 5-10, 176-pound defensive and face-off specialist has 75 points (34g-41a) and 76 penalty minutes. He signed a two-year contract with Nashville on March 23, 2012 after being Nashville’s seventh choice, 198th overall (seventh round), in the 2010 Entry Draft.