That guy looks like a legit European neanderthal to me. Facial dimensions, cranial shape, everything. Well...taking that back, in the group pictures his face and head are too small in absolute terms. So he's a shrunken-headed neanderthal. And doesn't it just figure that he'd be a hockey player. Erp, one more thing: his nose isn't upturned like Memoire says it should be.
There are enough pictures of him with other people that I would be pretty confident in saying that his head is not especially large.
It's so strange to see a person that looks like him with only moderate or lower cranial and facial dimensions. However, reduction is a legitimate phenomenon, and certain Alpines and Mongoloids today preserve morphological traits of more robust hominoids of the past but on a smaller scale. Mikita is a reduced, Neanderthaloid Alpine.
