As a defensively responsible forward, it's hard to imagine young players looking up to the great Viktor Marius and Mike Izzy. Henrik Lekberg Osterman grew up watching Marius and Izzy play. Lekberg Osterman and his friends would spend hours on end watching their games, dissecting every play and every move on the ice and trying to emulate them. Lekberg Osterman specifically decided to focus his game on defensive play as well as his skating, something that he had always been gifted at. He would spend most days during the colder months of the year just skating around on the lake at home, constantly pushing his abilities to the brink. When he started getting noticed for his play as a young boy it became clear that his shot was not what he should be focusing on but rather his passing as he had always had an uncanny ability to read the developing play. It also started becoming increasingly clear that the combination of his natural defensive and skating abilities made him slippery with the puck, so unlike Marius and Izzy his weakness wasn't strength while on the puck, rather it was checking, something he had always been less than impressive at no matter how hard he worked on it.


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