To be silent, the hockey union’s ears could be interpreted around the cocaine case of the hockey union, writes Tommi Seppälä, an NHL journalist of Sports.
Tommi Seppälänhl journalist
12.2. 20: 06 • Updated 12.2. 20:25
Complete stomach fall. This may be considered a national team player who has been in Switzerland in Switzerland Miro Aaltonen ban on playing. It was given to the attacker for a full month. 1000 Swiss franc fines clicked on top. Aaltonen learns to be and at the same time the “powerful” message to the rest of the species that the use of cocaine is actually ok.
Who still remembers how in the fall of 2023 Ville Peltonen son Alex He received a three -month ban in Switzerland after using insulin for his diabetes. Rankku came because Peltonen’s employer Davos had made an administrative negligence while forgetting the use of insulin to the doping authorities.
As a complete humor, the alignment may be made, where the use of cocaine can be overcome three times in a smaller game than the administrative human oblivion. It is also quite sad to be the message that the sanction sends outwards. Switzerland is full of national team players and the role models of young ice hockey players, for whom ridiculously, the game, which is mostly reprimanded, sends a really sad message.
As a seal to everything as soon as the sanction came to light, Miro Aaltonen’s move to SC Bern was published. Aaltonen is playing again on February 17th.
Aaltonen himself made the case required.
This apparently admitted to the STT that he had used cocaine in his spare time and apologized to his former employer Kloten, his fans, his loved ones and his teammates.
This is good.
How hockey is more widely treated by drug use is its own chapter. Or how the Finnish Ice Hockey Association approaches it. It must be remembered, of course, that until Wednesday, Aaltonen was just suspected, but still the leadership of Finland’s most popular sport would have expected some kind of output.
It was useless – once again.
The place for leadership was
There was nothing to say about the hockey association. Head coach preparing for the top tournament with the national team in Canada Antti Pennanen commented briefly at EPN Sports Studio earlier in January. According to Pennanen, it is unfortunate that this happens, but on the other hand, it is good that Aaltonen was caught and carried responsibility.
It has been useless for the rest of the leadership of the Ice Hockey Association, for example, to Aaltonen’s position in the Leijon. The last time Aaltonen represented the national team in Helsinki in November. Aaltonen has been the standard face of the national team in recent years. Among other things, the striker was winning the Olympic gold in 2022.
When a star player in this size class and an exemplary, such as cocaine, one could imagine that there was a strong desire to come out in the hockey union. Come and tell you that we will not accept under any circumstances. But no.
In Switzerland, a finger was made by the “Soo soo” and in Finland the leadership of the Ice Hockey League is reading along the bus, trying to sweep the nasty thing under the carpet.
The situation is a situation where the national team has again succeeded in some value tournament. In this case, you do not have to look for leading players with cats and dogs. Then there is even a punch in the front row. The braces are banging and statements are raining. Unfortunately, good leadership also requires presence when it rains in the room.
Particularly in drug carts, the Ice Hockey League could be imagined to intervene with a hard hand.
Many years ago, a club boss in the media suspected that a “cocaine bomb” in the Finnish Champions League. For many years, the NHL has been whispering for a large -scale cocaine problem.
Now was the opportunity to line up.
But no. No leadership was found again.
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