Marko Anttila felt bad to leave the trough in this way.
Marko Anttila played over 600 matches in the Finnish Champions League. EPA / AOP
The 627th regular season game, the last game of the career, ended with tears. Marko Anttila arrived crying for an interview with MTV in Raksila, Oulu.
The flies lost to HIFK 1-2. Keeper Damian Clara The bad mocha just half a minute before the end of the third round led to IFK’s winning goal while sending the Flyers for a summer vacation.
– There’s not much to say about it. It was quite the end of that math, but if we were to look at the whole time, then we probably didn’t deserve the place, Anttila started to gamble on MTV.
The Flyers were ranked 13th. TPS passed it in the table and grabbed a playoff spot.
– I myself have a place to look in the mirror. I tried to use all my know -how to turn the season, but didn’t help.
The final interview went to the lip.
– It’s been a great trip. I don’t know if I can look back with the poke. Of course, that end of the match was so brutal. We were in the game. It was bad to leave the trough.
– It’s been a great trip. Lots of great friends. So … thank you, Anttila said and left the locker room.
The league career was 108+123 = 231.
Hockey hero
39-year-old Anttila made his debut in the Ilves shirt in the Finnish Championship in 2004-2005.
The Lempäälä man continued through TPS to KHL and from there to the Swedish League. The years 2016-21 went to the Jokers’ KHL team.
Anttila became the whole nation’s hockey hero in the World Championships 2019 while he was celebrating the World Championship in the Lion.
He became Jukka Jalonen’s credit player on the national team. The Olympic gold medal was hung around the neck in the winter of 2022 and the second World Cup gold medal in the spring of the same year.