Samuel Salonen presented his discovery.
Samuel Salosta smiled at the Jokers’ practice on Thursday. Tom Natri
The Veikkaus arena is already covered for the return of the Jokers.
The locker rooms of the hall, which has been out of use for three and a half years, have been renovated and cleaned from floor to ceiling, but the Joker’s attacker Samuel Salonen still found one souvenir from the club’s KHL days.
The lower protections, which are more familiarly called egg protections, had been forgotten in the pull-out compartment of the dressing room.
The strong suspicion is that they have belonged either To Brian O’Neill or For Nicklas Jensen.
– Huolto is still wondering if it was either O’Neill or Jensen, whichever was sitting there. They are one or the other, Salonen assures.
The egg guards of the former Jokerit player. Sami Pilvinen
After taking the picture, Salonen returns the eggs to their original place. He thinks that the wall of the custodians’ booth would be a suitable location for them, but the decision has not been made yet.
– Bad to say. Wait and see. Maybe I don’t feel like wearing them now. It might be a bit… I already have pretty good eggs myself.
O’Neill played for the Jokers in the 2016–22 seasons and won the team’s internal points exchange three times. Jensen, who spent five seasons in Helsinki, achieved the same feat once.
Salonen might turn to superstition if his own goal faucet does not open in any way in the matches played in the Veikkaus-arena.
– Maybe I’ll put these on, he grins.
An emotional bond
Jokerit practiced on Thursday in the Veikkaus arena. Tom Natri
Salonen, 25, got excited about the sport as a little kid at the Jokerien ice hockey school. He remembers visiting Pasila’s multipurpose arena for the first time when he was three or four years old.
Even though it is a return home, so to speak, Salonen and many other Joker players will play in the hall for the first time on the men’s level in the ranks of the home team on Friday night.
– I personally see it this way, that yes, this has always been the home arena, we have only been visiting IFK’s arena, he refers to the Nordenskiöldinkatu ice rink, where Jokerit plays its home games this season as well.
– I feel and believe that many others in that team also have a different emotional bond [tähän paikkaan]. In the booth, for example, there are logos everywhere and old players on the walls and of course all the historical signs.
Nine arena matches have been marked on the calendar. The extension of the contract depends on the Jokers’ league level.
– Hopefully in a short or longer time frame, but nevertheless at some point we would get here to run this everyday life, so this would become even more officially our home hall, where things work all the time.
Balance in search
Jokeri’s early season has been disappointing, but Salonen (10 matches, 5+4), by Alexander Forslund (11 shots, 2+11) and Oliver Sun’s (7 ott., 2+3) the first chain has made a result.
He describes Forslund as a chain as a playmaker and himself as a painter.
– “Olli” does a bit of both. Passes, grooms and sometimes scores himself, but in my opinion, every good chain is based on the fact that everyone can do a little bit of everything, Salonen emphasizes.
The trio has received a head coach From Tomek Valtose a lot of freedom to fit your own patterns.
Salonen is satisfied with the successes, but not with the whole.
– We have to remember that our chain has also scored goals. Nor can it be the case that even if it is done on the other end, it will ring on your own. You have to find a balance somehow.
Jokerit will face Joensuu’s Kiekko-Pojat, the leading team from Mest, today. The match starts at 19:00.
Samuel Salonen says the Veikkaus arena is the home hall of the Jokers. Tom Natri