Hockey Lions ‘ubiquitous nightmare’ preparing for the finals: ‘In vain begins to fuss’

Tampere

Winger Jere Sallinen versatility became very clear in Saturday’s semi-final against the United States.

Sallinen performed the duties of a masquerade in number one superiority, rough Valtteri Filppulan on the edge, sometimes changed the center of the chain and took the start and went to the landlord Juho Lammikon at the edge of the chain.

SIF, the former captain of HIFK, currently playing in the Swiss league in Biel, collected the playing time at 14.54.

“There was a little bit of everything today. But it’s my job to be a ubiquitous planer. Where it is needed, we go there, ”Sallinen said.

The United States bowed to Finland 4-3. Sallinen said the opponent was a disciplined team.

“But we were able to respond well, and perhaps we were even more disciplined.”

Sallinen will play his third World Cup final on Sunday. The account has gold from 2019 and silver from last year. Instead, he was not involved in the Olympics.

Sallinen thinks that the team’s experience of success guarantees that there is no need to be in the voice. He calls for calm credit for his own doing.

“It’s useless to start fussing about anything. Let’s try what we have achieved so far. ”

Finland in defense Ville Pokan the liability clearly increased on Saturday when Mikael Seppälä did not play. Pokka was on the field on Saturday at 17.14, with responsibility for Slovakia on Thursday falling to eight minutes.

Pokka got to play for Dallas Stars Miro Heiskasen alongside.

“It went well and felt good. It was nice to play with Miro It’s easy to play with a world-class kit next door. He gives the puck and he takes care of it, ”Pokka said.

At the end of the second round, Pokka and the entire Finnish team were in trouble for a while, when the United States got the game to the end of Finland and changed at the attacking end with a short exchange distance. Finland had a long way to go to the exchange and no exchanges were made.

Pokka says he wasn’t afraid to swing the net at his own end.

“That’s why it’s been training all summer long to be able to play,” he said.

Finland’s No. 1 center, second goal for the team Sakari Manninen is familiar to Poka from the junior years in Oulu. Manninen, who worked hard for the juniors of the flies, received strong praise from Poka for his performance at the World Championships.

“His contribution has been pretty staggering. He is our number one center, has already scored many goals and a really important goal today. He has been absolutely the pinnacle of this tournament, ”Pokka said.

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