Matikainen’s contract covers the rest of the league season. The Flyers have spent 14th in the SM League.
Oulu Kärpät, the hockey Finnish Championship League, announces that it will release Wille Head coach was washed.
– On Sunday, the government met and made the decision to frees Mäntymaa from its mission as the head coach of the representation. The athletic result has not been as desired and the most important games of the season are ahead. On behalf of the club, I would like to thank Mäntyma for his work for the Kärppi, the chairman of the Kärppi Board Juha Junno says In the club’s bulletin.
Mäntymaa was able to coach the head coaching from December 2023, after replacing at that time Lauri Marjamäki. Prior to this, a former defender who became a player legend in Kärp coached the representative team as an assistant coach.
The Flyers have played one of its weakest seasons in their club history. During the fall season, the club was in a long loss, losing seven matches in the tube.
Although the performance improved for a moment at the turn of the year, the Flyers have fallen again to a difficult phase. Currently, it has won only one of its last eight games.
In the series 14th place, the third last of the series, the Oulu Society, who is living in the series, says it has hired as its new head coach Petri Matikainen Pine land. Kärpät states in his announcement that Matikainen joins the club’s activities right from Monday afternoon.
58-year-old Matikainen has last coached Biel, the Swiss Main Series club last season. Matikainen was released from the club’s head coach on February 25, 2024. The club and Matikainen terminated their contract, which has extended to this season, the obligation to pay the payroll at the beginning of February this year.
Prior to moving to Switzerland, Matikainen led the Austrian Klangenfurter AC in the Central European Hockey Series in Icehl. Prior to this, he has also accumulated foreign experience as head coach in KHL, coaching Avangard Omsk and Slovan Bratislava.
In the Finnish Champions League, Matikainen last coached the Pelicans of Lahti in 2017-18. Matikainen was also rumored to be the head coach of the club in Lahti this season, but he denied the rumors In an interview with Ilta-Sanomat.
Matikainen has twice won the Best Coach’s Best Coach Award (Kalevi Numminen Prize) at the helm of the Espoo Blues. The prizes came during the 2007-08 and 2010-11 seasons.