Heiskanen’s lower body injury, who was playing in Dallas Stars, turned out to be so serious that the star defender skips the national team tournament.
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Dallas Stars in hockey in the NHL defending Miro Heiskanen Not going to the Finnish ice hockey team for the NHL’s four -country tournament.
The Lions tells about this In a news release from the Ice Hockey Association. Dallas confirmed the issue of the Finnish national team General Manager To Jere Lehtinen on Friday.
– This is a really unfortunate news for Miro himself, but of course also for the Finnish team and Dallas, Finland’s head coach Antti Pennanen described in the bulletin.
Heiskanen was injured on Tuesday night against the Vegas Golden Knights. A 25-year-old Finnish knee twisted when Vegas Mark Stone tackled him.
Stone pushed his skates Heiskanen’s teammate Roope Hintzin Racket and continued his movement, pursuing a reel. Stone hit Heiskanen’s left knee.
Stone got a two -minute struggle for the situation.
“We don’t know more about the injury yet, but let’s hope that Miro will soon be back in the game,” Pennanen said.
Heiskanen’s injury was heard a little news on Friday night Finnish time. Stars head coach Peter Deboer told Finnish star defender had a magnetic resonance imaging. The quality of Heiskanen’s lower body injury has been described as a “weekly” model, but the Finn is supposed to visit the knee specialist in follow -up examinations.
The NHL’s four -country tournament will start in two weeks. The Lions will face the United States on Thursday, February 13, in their opening match.
In addition to Heiskanen, the Lions team had been selected for the defenders Rasmus Ristolainen, Olli Määttä, Esa Lindell, Niko Mikkola, Juuso Välimäki and Jani Hakanpää. Playing Hakanpää is also uncertain due to health atmosphere.