The main series of men’s hockey is now more interesting than it has been for years. The Finnish Championship League was also successful in communication, writes Jussi Paasi.
12.3. 09:19 • Updated March 12th. 09:19
Help. How does the SM League react to this?
Ilves Joonas Oden had to face racist slander after the Lukko-Ilves match last Tuesday.
Either communication has been too slow or non-existent. Thus, expectations for crisis communications were not extremely high.
I sighed with relief. The Finnish Championship League once again hit the finish line in information and communication.
The domestic main series has managed to surprise this season in many other ways as well.
The series is now more interesting than for years. After the audience wildly wondered Sebastian Aho, Patrik Laine and Jesse Puljujärvi set out to earn their wages in dollars, the attraction of the SM league waned badly. The corona periods deepened the depression even further.
But right now, in March 2022, the SM League is downright an amazingly interesting series. Admittedly, it is not so much thanks to the Finnish Championships as to the clubs, but a lot of the disgraced series can be praised without hindrance anyway.
One of the finest things this year is Tampere, the hockey capital of Finland.
Tappara has been a long-time success, but now Ilves has finally risen to where it needs to be on the ice map. Two Tampere teams are fighting for the victory in the regular season. I didn’t come up with a finer climax.
The completion of the crazy arena could not have come in a better seam. The Finnish slut has returned home. To New home.
And then there is Jukurit in Mikkeli, who is now playing what all the little clubs dream of.
The interest of the Finnish Championship League is also significantly increased by the exceptional evenness of the series. The winner of the regular season, live playoffs and home advantages will only be decided in the final games. Like the last playoff team.
It is noteworthy that for the first time in years, the mock prefix can be removed from the weather players. Two teams from the first round of the playoffs – whatever they may be – will be able to challenge the top two teams in the quarterfinals.
And when the top players from the Jokers to the seven league clubs are hit on top of all this, the domestic puck spring is hotter than anyone could have expected last fall.
Oh yeah. That’s one missing thing I mentioned in the title.
It can be found at the tail end of the series. Think about how hard the stakes for the lower caste teams would be if the SM League were not a closed series. How tickling it would feel when the Aces, SaiPa, and JYP had to stare insensitably in the direction of Mestis. Who will come from there in the qualifiers?
While waiting for the series to open, you should enjoy an exceptionally interesting puck delicacy.