Saku Mäenalanen, who returned to the NHL for this season after a three-year break, scored two goals in Winnipeg Jets’ victory.
Winnipeg Jets Saku Mäenalanen was the Finnish name of the night, when the Canadian team claimed a 7–2 away victory over the Chicago Blackhawk. The 28-year-old forward was responsible for the Jets’ second and fourth goals.
Right at the beginning of the second period, Chicago’s keeper checked Petr Mrazek blocked the puck in front of him, from which Mäenalanen tapped the puck into the goal. Seven minutes later, the player from Tornola came up along the left wing and fired his second goal.
It was the second two-goal night of Mäenalanen’s NHL career. The first of them comes from the 2018-2019 season, when he represented the Carolina Hurricanes. He has hit 3+1 in these 20 matches.
Mäenalanen, who got 15 minutes of playing time, was praised as a star player From Pierre-Luc Duboiswho scored two goals like a Finn.
– We have seen it a few times in training. He has a good shot, Dubois pointed to Mäenalanen’s itch.
– We saw during the training camp what he can do for this team and what he can bring to the table. Offensively, at the beginning of the year, it wasn’t there. “But everyone in this locker room, starting with the coaching staff, knew how valuable he was to us,” Dubois praised On the Jets website (you will switch to another service).
Mäenalanen played the previous three seasons in Finland, the last of which he spent in Oulu’s Kärpi. Last spring, Raamikas Mäenalanen won the Olympic gold and the world championship.
The Jets are second behind the Dallas Stars in the Central Division. Chicago, on the other hand, is going through a difficult phase, as the defeat was the seventh in a row for the dynasty team of the 2010s.
Finnish time in the saved Minnesota – Arizona match on Sunday Matias Maccelli snapped two service points. The Arizona forward, who is having a great season, has scored 1+12 in 18 games. Juuso Välimäki lute in Arizona’s back lines for exactly 20 minutes.