Electricity to the office located on the side of the Helsinki arena comes through Helsinki Halli Oy, which manages the arena.
The Helsinki office of the Finnish Ice Hockey Federation may be quiet next week, as the office is threatened with power outage next Monday.
– The electricity may be cut off on Monday, but this has not happened yet, the union’s director of communications Henna Malmberg tells.
The ice hockey association’s office is located on the side of the Helsinki arena, and electricity to the office comes through Helsinki Halli Oy, which manages the Helsinki arena. According to Malmberg, the problems have appeared at the end of the hall company.
– We are in our own premises, but the electricity is from the same supplier as the hall company. If there are problems there, it also affects us, Malmberg explains.
CFO of the Ice Hockey Association Jaakko Luumin according to the union, they were contacted about the matter only on Wednesday.
– Yesterday we received some information from the hall company that such a threat is active.
– We pretty much rely on general information. It’s possible that the electricity will go out, but we don’t know anything for sure, Luumi opens.
Helsinki Halli Oy’s voting majority is owned by the Arena Events company, which is controlled by Russian oligarchs Gennady Timchenko, Arcade and Boris Rotenberg and the latter’s son Roman Rotenberg. With the exception of Roman Rotenberg, they are all covered by EU sanctions against Russia.
Halliyhtiö has recently been in the midst of financial difficulties. Helsingin Sanomat reports earlier in August, the company became insolvent.
Union for remote work
Luumi regrets the short notice that the Ice Hockey Association received information about the possible power outage.
– When you get this kind of information two full business days before, it’s quite a bit.
He says that most of the union’s employees will switch to remote work if the Helsinki office is no longer available.
– We find out and have found out what kind of options we have. This is not completely exceptional, because we had a corona period when we were not allowed to come to the office. Even then we managed just fine. We will largely go into remote work mode if the office in Helsinki drops out.