Santeri Virtanen
The World Junior Hockey Championship may not have ended the way Gustafsson would have liked, but for Santeri Virtanen, it was everything he hoped it would be.
Virtanen, Winnipeg's fourth-round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, was part of the gold-medal winning Finland team.
It wasn't the first time Virtanen had earned a medal wearing Finnish colours. In 2016-17, he helped his country earn a silver medal at the World Under-18s. He scored twice and added four assists in seven games during that tournament.
In 2018-19, the 20-year-old centre played his first full season in the Finnish Liiga, scoring five goals and finishing with 10 points in 40 games.
Nathan Smith
At the 2018 NHL Draft, the Winnipeg Jets selected Smith in the third round (91st overall). The 6'0" centre from Tampa, FL spent his draft year with the USHL's Cedar Rapids RoughRiders, scoring 17 goals and registering 43 total points.
In 59 games with the Roughriders in 2018-19, Smith scored 18 goals to set a new career high - besting his mark of 17 the season before. He also added a new personal best in terms of assists with 35, giving him 53 points on the season - six more than he had in 2017-18.
The RoughRiders also made the playoffs this season, falling in four games in their best-of-five series with the Chicago Steel. Smith recorded an assist in the series (in Game 3).
The 20-year-old Smith is committed to Minnesota State University (Mankato) for the 2019-20 season. He finished his USHL career with 100 points (35 goals and 65 assists) in 110 games.
Pavel Kraskovsky
The 2018-19 season was Kraskovsky's fourth full season in the Kontinental Hockey league (though he has played parts of six seasons in the KHL).
He had one goal and three points in 26 games this season, then added another three points in nine playoff games.
In his KHL career, the 22-year-old Kraskovsky (Winnipeg's sixth-round selection in the 2014 NHL Draft) has 15 goals and 37 points in 188 career games.