The lions head coach’s strange solutions may not be so much wondering in the future, writes Jussi Paasi.
Jussi Paaser Sports Editor
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Montreal.
The offensive chains are completely new, except for the number one trio.
What should I do after such a solution?
Quite a few people who know the hockey are: practice with a renewed configuration.
Lions head coach Antti Pennanen decided otherwise. In practice, Finland did not practice with the new chains before the Swedish match.
The solution seemed downright silly. Why on earth does not practice?
Pennanen justified the fact that the team needs rest. It also sounded at least strange. In the NHL’s four -country tournament, with only three matches and a possible finale, so there is a nice rest time between the games.
If Pennanen had said that there were, for example, illness or injuries in the team, everyone would have understood the need for rest. But at least nothing was said about this.
But what happened.
The Lions won Sweden. Pennanen’s solution proved to be effective.
At the beginning of the game, the Finnish team was quite different from the third round of the USA: physical, willing and tightly caught at the heart of the game.
In the second round, Sweden took over the game, but the lions rumbled in the result. In the third round, Finland had places to solve the match, but according to a longer formula, the victory came in overtime.
Still, the renovated chains did not work particularly well. “L-chain”, that is, Eetu Luostarinen – Anton Lundell – Patrik Laine In the beginning, he found a common plot and succeeded in the goal. After that, the trio sometimes disappeared completely from the picture.
Second chain Roope Hintz – Sebastian Aho – Mikael Granlund Didn’t get any of the common moods, even though Granlund hit the vital 4-3 goal in overtime.
From four chain to number one in the middle of the game raised Kaapo Kakko brought Mikko Rantanen and Alexander Barkov The game was energy and the chain scored an important leveling goal in the second round.
Still, the most important hatched. It was finally a winning line -up. Only the result matters.
Pennanen received a relief to win
It wasn’t just one game among others. No, even though this tournament is a show tournament organized by the NHL, some kind of exercise for next year’s Olympics.
If Finland had disappeared, Pennanen’s position would now be really awkward. Similar to Lauri Marjamäki Nine years ago in the World Cup. At that time, Marjamäki started his head coaching season with stupid losses.
Pennanen coached the Lions for at least one victory. The importance of this one victory is exceptionally high.
Namely, Pennanen’s activities have been suspected of many directions. In Montreal, the confusion was that Pennanen made the ohs and did not arrive at the press conference for him.
Experienced NHL reporters spun their heads and stated that such activities were not acceptable in these circles. The stranger was also aroused by the non -training of the above described above.
Profit plays a wonderful importance in top-level sports. Now Pennanen got the first winning melt in his hat, and his strange solutions may not be so much wondering in the future.