Saku Salmela continues his season in red shirts.
Saku Salmela moves from Kuopio to Helsinki, PDO
HIFK tells on their websitethat the club has signed a contract with the defender for the rest of the season Saku Salmelan35, with.
– Saku is an experienced warrior who brings skating strength and toughness to our defense. According to Salmela, joining also increases the competition within the team, the head coach Olli Jokinen sees
Salmela has played 14 games in KalPa in the early season with an output of 0+1. Last season, he cooled KooKoo on the back lines in 42 regular season games. The points 2+3=5 were created in them.
Salmela is a familiar man to HIFK, as he represented the club in the 2016–2018 seasons. At that time, the balance of 101 regular season matches was 6+13=19. He won bronze at HIFK in spring 2018.
Salmela has already played in the SM league for a total of 11 seasons and 497 regular season matches with an output of 30+75=105.
Salmela will join HIFK’s strength on Monday.
As a series jumbo, HIFK surprised league leader Ässät in Helsinki with 3–0 goals on Saturday.