Ice Hockey World Championships|Jukka Jalonen was tense after the initial series losses. An exceptional interview clip of the head coach was published on Yle’s website.
The lions the low-quality group stage in the World Cup tournament in Prague ended on Tuesday evening with a 1-3 loss to Switzerland. With the help of Great Britain, Finland reached the bar and qualified for the playoffs.
In the semifinals, they will skate against Sweden, who played an undefeated preliminary series. Mightily conkar journalist Jussi Saarinen asked the head coach on Tuesday From Jukka Jalosewhat he thinks about the upcoming match.
The answer was blunt.
“Jukka, what kind of credit do you have for this team at the moment when we start playing these – in quotation marks – playoffs? And, of course, great Sweden in front,” Saarinen began.
Jalonen didn’t set out to unpack his emotional state for many reasons.
“Better than you. So damn good,” Jalonen poked.
Saarinen’s curiosity was satisfied, because Finland has only beaten Norway, Denmark and Great Britain in the Games. The Lions of the so-called “big hockey country” have won at the World Cup level for the last time in 2022, when Sakari Manninen decided the WC final against Canada in the overtime.
in Prague according to the journalists following the games, during the tournament, Jalonen has not been willing to open any of his thoughts to the journalists, for example regarding chain changes.
by Mikael Granlund Jalonen characterized Tuesday night’s outrageous trick with few words and grunted at the journalists’ questions about a possible suspension.
“I don’t expect anything,” Jalonen said.
It goes without saying that in Thursday night’s match, Sweden is the favorite and the Lions are the challengers. Jalonen did not really take a stand on this either.
“Isn’t it quite human when you look at the team formations. But we have also been underdogs against Sweden before,” Jalonen said.
Jalonen has won three world championships (2011, 2019, 2022) and Olympic gold (2022) as the head coach of the Lions.
The quarter-final match between Finland and Sweden will be played on Thursday in Ostrava at 21:20.
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