Antti Pennanen comments tongue in cheek about the possibility of the head coach of the A national team being washed.
Antti Pennase has a head coach contract at Ilves until the end of the 2024–25 season. Elmeri Elo / All Over Press
Jukka Jalonen According to Iltalehti, the follow-up game in the Ice Hockey League has progressed to two trades. They are on the finish line Kari Jalonen and Antti Pennanen.
Are you interested in the job of the head coach of the Finnish A national team, Antti Pennanen?
– I will not comment, Pennanen answered on Thursday in Tampere.
Iltalehti reported earlier that in addition to Kari Jalonen and Pennanen, Jukka Jalonen’s assistant coach was also nominated Mikko Manner. According to the latest information, he has fallen out of the chair game.
Kari Jalonen is free, as he was fired from the Czech A national team after last season. Pennase has a contract with Ilves until the end of the 2024–25 season.
Can you refuse to be Leijoni’s head coach, Antti Pennanen?
– I will not enter into that discussion. It is not appropriate to have that discussion in public. All focus is on Ilves.
What career plans do you have?
– A somewhat clichéd answer. All goals are related to me developing myself into a better coach. Then there are other things in life, such as ongoing studies, Pennanen, who studied psychology and therapy, answers.
– The things you talked about are ultimately not up to me to decide: where I get to and where I go. I try to do my job as well as possible and improve my skills. Dreams have actually changed quite a lot in the past couple of years, he adds.
When will the name of Jukka Jalonen’s successor be known?
– I have no information.
According to information from Iltalehti, the matter may be resolved as early as next week.
– Well, the devil.
Crazy rumor
Jukka Jalonen will leave Leijonat after the spring 2024 World Cup. Jussi Saarinen
If Pennanen is selected for Leijon, according to the wildest rumor, it will not be a huge setback for Ilves.
According to one insider, Jukka Jalonen is a possible head coach of the Tassel Ears in the 2024–25 season. Iltalehti has not received confirmed information about Jalonen and Ilves’ contract negotiations
Jalonen was Ilves’ head coach at the beginning of his professional career in 1989–92, was assistant coach of the league team in the fall of 1992, until he became head coach in November 1992.
The head coaching job was strange, because in the middle of the 1994–95 season, Jalonen was fired, but among other things, the goalkeeper legend Jukka Tammen upon request, the man returned behind the bench in the spring and winter of 1995. Ilves managed the tormenting league qualifiers under Jalonen’s coaching.
– Ilves is still one of my favorite clubs. I could very well coach here. When you think about the club, the city and the people, definitely. I still have a lot of acquaintances and friends here, Jukka Jalonen said in an interview with Iltalehti in Tampere in the spring of 2022.
At the time of last season’s World Cup, Jalonen said that after Leijonat-pesti, the goal is to coach in the NHL. The major leagues in Sweden and Switzerland are also interesting, Jalonen added.