Petteri Nummelin, who has played in the World Championship 15 times, glows from Miro Heiska, and a few other Lion Players.
Miro Heiskanen is one of the best defenders in the world and the best in the World Cup tournament. The matter has not gone unnoticed by Petteri Nummelin.
Petteri Nummelin follows the World Championships from Norway. During this season, the man served on the coaching team of the Storhamar team.
– I have watched all the Finnish and Norwegian games. The Finnish team is playing in a way that is really, really hard to beat. He looks at the matter from any angle, Nummelin tells Iltalehti.
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– First of all, the team seems to make very few mistakes. The team defends and attacks with five players, the entire chain, and it works. Every player on the team knows their place and role on top of everything.
– The way of playing and the whole work better than anyone else. That’s not another Swedish loss, Nummelin continues.
Great Heiskanen
Petteri Nummelin, who has played in the World Championships 15 times, coached the Norwegian league Storhamar this season. JAAKKO STENROOS / AOP
Nummel wore a lion shirt a total of 253 times. The Turku resident played 15 World Championships and the greatest achievement of his career is the World Championships in the spring of 1995.
Nummelin is in love with Miro Heiskanen’s game.
– Heiskanen makes everything look so easy. The slide is great. He takes 3-4 ice skates from behind his own goal and then slides into the opponent’s area. He knows how to move, and ice skating has little to do with movement, Nummelin ponders.
– I don’t know if there has ever been a pack of that level in the Finnish national team, Nummelin thinks hard.
“Härskin” protection
Teemu Hartikainen twists against the United States. AOP
Three other players have also been remembered by 49-year-old Nummelin.
– Mikko Lehtonen has taken good steps forward in his career. Mikael Granlundia also can not be forgotten.
– But it’s really great to watch when Teemu “Härski” Hartikainen gets the puck and goes to go. Not that it gets off the puck. The protection is so great.
Would you like to defend against Hartika?
– It has little to defend, it will come. Really great, laughs seven-time medalist.
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Nummelin trusts the Lion to the end.
– I don’t consider the championship impossible at all. No team has yet shown miracles or being able to win in the Finnish games of chance.
The Lion Legend highlights two hard lands.
– The Czech Republic is a riddle. Finland will meet soon. Canada is always Canada, what about? The team is full of professionals and good players. Let’s see if they can play a team game at the Finnish level. I do not believe.
– But Canadian individuals are always able to solve big games, reminds the lion legend Nummelin.