The association is investigating the harassment against the former national team goalkeeper.
Meeri Räisänen was the target of shouting at Suonenjoki. AOP/Kimmo Brandt
Saved by the Finnish women’s national ice hockey team Meeri Räisänen, 34, was the subject of a barrage of boos during a men’s second division match on Saturday. About that news Central Finland.
In that match, Laukaan Gladiators, represented by Räisänen, met Suonenjoki Kiekko-Karhut, in whose home hall the game was played.
According to the supporter interviewed by Keskifinnoinen, the screams were really inferior.
– Right behind the goal, the guys in the main stand shouted that it’s easy to get playing time from the men’s team when you give a fuck. And that everything goes well when there is a woman at the goal, a supporter reports to the magazine.
At the request of the referees, the match official announced that the stands could be emptied if the inappropriate behavior did not stop. However, this was not the way it worked in the end.
The interference was reported in the match minutes. The Ice Hockey Federation will then take the matter to its disciplinary hearing.
Kiekko-Karhut won the match 5–4. In the decisive third match of the series played on Sunday, the Gladiators secured their place in the next round with a 5-4 overtime victory.