Välimäki has been an important piece in his team.
Juuso Välimäki (hamstring) had to miss the game against the Dallas Stars. AOP / USA TODAY SPORTS
Arizona Coyotes defenseman Juuso Välimäki was injured bloody Finnish time in the round of the night before Wednesday, when he got the Dallas Stars Jani Hakanpää I hit him on the head.
The situation happened in the third period, when Hakanpää got the puck shortly after the start of the Stars’ attack.
Välimäki had a lot of blood, but was able to get off the ice on his own two feet.
– Scary situation. Arizona defenseman Juuso Välimäki gets the puck in the face. He left the ice immediately. Verivana, editor of The Athletic Saad Yousuf wrote in X.
Born in 1998, Välimäki has been an important piece in the Coyotes lineup. Last season, the Tampere native played 78 regular season games and scored 4+30=34 power points in them. This and last season, Välimäki has played an average of 18 minutes per game.
The match between Coyotes and Stars was won by the home team Stars.
No less than four Finnish players got a power point in the match: Stars Miro Heiskanen (0+1), Esa Lindell (1+0), Roope Hintz (1+0) and Coyotes Matias Maccelli (0+1).