Haukiputa’s Vilho Heikkinen prevented a scoreless game with Tappara’s goal.

Vilho Heikkinen played the first clean sheet of his career in the League on Monday. Stock photo. Mika Kylmäniemi / AOP

– Great game, great audience and great that you got to play zero.

This is how Tappara’s goalkeeper summed up his mood Vilho Heikkinen24, on Monday evening in Tampere, when kirvesrinna beat Sport 3–0.

Heikkinen made a few nice saves and in the final set it seemed that the field players were trying to keep their scoreless. The scoreless game broke with 19 saves.

Heikkinen got scared in the final set when an “overshot” happened. He came far from his goal against a loose puck, which also spurted Sport Lari Heikkinen.

The goalkeeper was the first to reach the equipment, but shot the puck into the stands.

– I was scared that the puck wouldn’t hit the spectators. A little clumsy puck came up, Vilho Heikkinen summed it up and added that he is not related to Lari Heikkinen.

Veskari, who played in Mestis last years, ended up in Tappara in the summer with a trial contract.

– Aki Näykki is a familiar veskakoutis. It was quite a pleasant place when he got a call at the end of June.

In September, the deal was extended for the rest of the season.

– I thought for a while that if I had to look for a new company, where would I find it. On the other hand, I felt that the games have gone quite well and things have gone smoothly.

Heikkinen seems like an agile goalkeeper with a flexible flipper hand.

– All positioning must be developed. Here it is much more important than in Mesti. You can’t stand being in the wrong place, Heikkinen detailed his development targets.

– I will fight until the end, and I will not give up, he said about his strengths.

The fight is known, because now the one at the dock Christian Heljanko has been a host between the pipes of Tappara.

– The purpose is to challenge during playing time, so that it would not be so easy for kouks to choose the playing guard. Christian is a good boy, so you can wear work pants if you want to get playing time.

Past Roponen

Heikkinen is from Haukiputaa in North Ostrobothnia.

Who is the most successful and probably the most famous athlete in the community in recent years?

– Sakari Manninen and Markus NutivaaraHeikkinen answered.

I meant an individual athlete.

– Now it’s bad. Is there a gap in my education…

A skier who finished his handsome career last season Riitta-Liisa Roponen.

– Yes, I know that. As a child, I skied with my mother when Riitta-Liisa was on break. In my mind I passed and then told the story at school.