Veli-Matti Savinainen said that Anton Levtchi doesn’t know English, the axe-breasted language. Levtchi denies the claim.
Anton Levtchi says he has no problems understanding English. Tomi Natri / All Over Press
Tappara’s attacker, famous for his colorful stories Brother Matti Savinainen said in an interview with the MTV3 channel that his teammate With Anton Levtch have difficulties understanding the Tampere team’s new dressing room language, English.
Tappara’s command language changed from Finnish to English for this season, when the Swedish-American head coach Rikard Grönborg came to the house.
– Things are going well. I had an uncle in middle school, Levtchi informs IL.
Savinainen claimed something completely different in Maikkar’s story…
– It doesn’t understand itself, so it focuses on me. Savinainen would just focus on her own story, Levtchi commented.
Last season, when you returned to Tampere from the NHL organization in Florida in the middle of the season, you said that you had challenges with a foreign language in North America. What’s the matter?
– Of course it was. Having been in Finland for twenty years, the change was remarkable. But I got used to England.
Seriously, do you understand everything your coach is telling you?
– It’s going well. If there are challenges, the guys will help.
Born in Varkaus in November 1995, the ice hockey player’s second mother tongue is Russian.
– My parents are from Russia. I speak, read and understand Russian in the same way as Finnish.
To better condition
Veli-Matti Savinainen announced on Maikkari’s Hockey Night Tieen kailu program that his teammate Anton Levtchi does not understand English, but the head coach’s speeches must be translated into Finnish for him. Tomi Natri / All Over Press
Levtchi won the SM league with 26+35=61 points and goals in the 2021–22 season. The players voted him the best player of the series and the man was awarded with the Golden Helmet.
In the summer of 2022, he signed an NHL deal with Florida as an undrafted player. There were two matches in the fabled club and 35 in the AHL, until the winger returned to Mansee in the middle of last season.
– You’ll probably learn to appreciate that gig later in life.
Levtchi didn’t have the same flying weather in the ax shirt last spring as the year before.
– I wasn’t in good shape last season. Now I’m trying to get myself in shape, I’ve spent the summer relatively well and we’re on a good path, number 76 says.
– That’s why I returned to Tappara, as I see this as the best possible place to develop. I would do well in even better series in the future, if such a place comes. I’m not satisfied with anything: skating, grappling and Laukomining – all those areas can be improved.
A liberating hit
On Wednesday, Tappara opened the league season with a 4–0 win over last spring’s final opponent Pelicans.
– It must have been a fast-paced game. 4–0 victory, so the good taste remained.
Tappara led the match after the opening set 1–0. In the second period, Päijät-Häme’s pump was closer to the equalizer than Tappara’s second hit, until Levtchi released Nick Babtisten drive through.
– We lost the start, but we got the puck. Nick went up at a good pace, so I threw him a puck. He took the puck and scored. Nothing more amazing than that.
After Babtisten’s goal, the home team’s game was freed up and they took a solid victory 4–0 (1–0, 2–0, 1–0).