According to head coach Tero Lehterä, “this is life.”
Finland’s head coach Tero Lehterä said that Finland obeys orders. Pete Anikari
The female lions are on the brink of an extraordinary disaster when the norovirus has taken more than half of the Olympic team into isolation.
Tonight’s opening match against Canada is under threat. The head coach Tero Lehterä appeared in front of the media after Thursday’s practice.
– This is life. This kind of thing happens. We live according to the instructions given. If we are told to play, we will play – regardless of the number of players. If they say not to play, then we shouldn’t forcefully come here.
– Whether it makes sense and whose benefit it is is another matter. It’s none of my business either.
Finland got eight field players and two goalkeepers on the ice in practice. The rest are sick or in isolation.
– In the exercises, we went through individuals, when we couldn’t even run a superior force.
In principle, you could play a hockey match with eight field players.
Now the team and the Ice Hockey Association are waiting for the tournament organizers’ decisions on the fate of the match.
A scenario so crazy emerged that Finland would have to play the match only with a fair field. Canada is also a great country in women’s hockey and the favorite for Olympic gold
– We don’t decide that. It probably wouldn’t be meaningful if we played with so little. It would become a turf pulling contest. Now imagine for yourself that you are pulling 400 meters in the rink 60 times in a row.
Lehterä did not take a position on the intensity with which Finland would start playing if it was assigned to the rink with an insufficient lineup.
– This is the kind of thing that managers think about when decisions are made.
Who is the number one hitter?
– I don’t know, that will be decided by that tall man over there. And the health situation, Lehterä said and referred to the team’s goalkeeper training.
