According to an MTV report, Kurr is expected to remain in the side role if the Jokers return to the League.
MTV Sports according to the data, one third of the league clubs have a negative attitude towards Jari Kurri’s position in the leadership of the Jokers.
The Jokers said earlier last month they were aiming to return to the Finnish Championships for the 2023–24 season. The return of jokers is generally seen as a positive thing.
The chairman of the league, who will remain anonymous, tells MTV that Kurr should not even be on the club’s board if the Jokers want to return to the domestic league.
Some club leaders allow Kurr to be in the Jokers, but as a club leader he cannot be in the Finnish Championships. Clubs applying for a position are still awaiting the Jokers’ license application, in connection with which the club’s activities will be evaluated in more detail.
IL said earlier that only Jari Kurri and his spouse are currently sitting on the board of Jokerit Hockey Club oy. Vanessa Kurri.
Jari Kurrin Jokerit needs ten league clubs to vote in favor of the series. Petri Saarelainen / AOP
Kurr’s credibility has experienced a collision during the Jokers ’KHL. Kurri refused to disclose in an MTV interview how he acquired a 100 percent stake in the Jokers. However, he confirmed that the Jokers are currently completely debt-free.
According to MTV, Nornickel Harjavalta has somehow written down its capital loan.
The Jokers need the affirmative vote of the chairman of at least ten league clubs at the general meeting to make it possible to return to the League.
One uncertainty is also where the Jokers would play their home game. 44.98 per cent of Helsinki Halli Oy is owned by Russian-Finnish oligarchs Roman Rotenberg and Gennadi Timtšenkon company Arena Events Oy. Both Rotenberg and Tymoshenko are on the EU’s sanctions list.
The decision-making power lies with the oligarchs’ Arena Events. Rotenberg is the chairman of Helsinki Hall and Arena Events.