Kouvola sees a great ice hockey test on this way, writes Jussi Paasi.
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Jussi Paasi and Topi Nättinen belong to the standard sound of EPN’s hockey round. The hockey tour will be heard on Wednesdays at Radio Finland and Fridays and Saturdays at Arena.
In mid -November, Sumulaakso was even grayer than usual.
The cocoa did not go. The audience was not interested. The new head coach’s abilities were suspected.
Jouko Myrrä had been piloting only Ilves in Tampere before moving to Kouvola, for as long as 15 years. First in the junior and then in the SM League.
In the Kouvöliitto, the losses followed each other from mid -October to mid -November. KooKoo lost as many as nine out of ten matches. Then came the five -match winning streak, but immediately after four losses.
Will myrrre been out of Tampere? Not doing well, there was the judgment of many.
Criticism of the storm was quickly silent. KooKoo is a clear number one in the Finnish Champions League this calendar year. As I write this, the Kouvola people are five points away from the straight quarter.
What is the KooKoo rise? It’s a good idea to listen to the video above Topi Nättinen An estimate, but one of the reasons is surely that Myrrä is a player -loving coach. He cares about the players. He wants to help them develop.
And the players are evolving.
There are many beautiful examples of development and the rapid turn of the career in the KooKoo ranks. Swedish striker Marcus Davidsson Last season, he wandered around in the shadows of the shadows in Pori. In Kouvola, the result began to come. Davidsson has soon doubled last season’s power point.
Robert Rooban The career started to fall in JYP, but under myrrä, the curve quickly rolled up. The same happened For Joonas Oden.
Myrrä was made for one match in February. Behind the player bench, Myrrä’s determined encouragement, guidance and praise of the players echoed.
One of the instructions recorded on the tape had been addressed to Oden.
– Denssi, Move Your Money Makers!
If I were Joonas Oden and heard such a huge throw from Kouts during the game, my mouth would surely turn to my mouth. And the skate would go better.
Everything shows that players have fun in KooKoo. And so is the storm. He has proven to survive outside Tampere.
And it’s not a coach’s own show. It’s the most important thing: helping players.
The Kouvola ice rink is called the Sumula Valley, according to Sumulaaksonkatu next to the next. There is no information about KooKoo now. In the Kouvöliitto, the colors burst bright. A big thank you to Myrrä.
With this going, Kouvola’s hockey spring becomes colorful.
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