At the latest, the Finnish championship shows that Christian Heljanko is a goalkeeper worth gold, writes Simo Arkko, editor of Urheilun.
When the final buzzer sounds in Turkuhalli, Tappara’s players immediately headed towards their zero-playing goalkeeper. Christian Heljankoa.
Heljanko threw away the equipment, ventilated it wildly and brought out the Haukari. He survived the final ordeal by himself with easy, only 16 fights, as Tappara had been stretched to an extremely hard blow.
One can only imagine what is inside the goalkeeper now.
Heljanko has always been suspected. Melt in the spring. The head does not last. Heljango will not win the Finnish championship.
Over the years, criticism and criticism have also spread to Tappara’s guard Heljango.
Some have suspected Heljanko, who started in Tappara in the autumn of 2017, precisely because he has not won the Finnish Championships.
In the 2018–19 season, Heljanko rose to become the team’s No. 1 goalkeeper Niklas Bäckström, and finally reached bronze. Since then, he has shared responsibility for control first Michael Garteigin and later Dominik Hrachovinan with, but was finally in the spring of 2020 except for the number one goalkeeper in the playoffs.
There has been enough criticism despite the fact that Heljanko has also shown his excellence in these matches. For example, in the spring of 2019, he shone in the quarterfinals against Lock.
Criticism did not subside last year when Tappara was left out of the medals, although the root causes of the result were elsewhere.
Sometimes Heljanko has also given cause for criticism. Although this season has been amazing, there have been weaker performances both in the opening match of the arena from Ilves and in the semi-finals against KooKoo.
In the finals, Heljanko fought relentlessly and coldly in every match. There were only four goals conceded in five matches and the rebound even soared to 96.63.
There were no easy goals.
Now Heljanko won. At the latest, the Finnish championship shows that he is a goalkeeper worth gold.
He was finally allowed to give his suspects a final seal.