Jere Lehtinen smiled at Miro Heiskanen’s arrival – Roope Hintz was injured

The Dallas Stars season in the NHL ended Finnish time early Monday morning. Just a few hours later, the Lions announced that the Stars were the star defender Miro Heiskanen arrives in Tampere to strengthen the national team.

Lions general manager Jere Lehtinen reported that the national team’s background team had already made inquiries about the various NHL players before the Games and the NHL playoffs as to whether they would be interested in the home team if the day on the club team ended.

– In the morning I started watching the game and when it was over, I wasn’t immediately connected, but pretty quickly. He also knew that we would ask, Lehtinen said of Heiskanen.

So the lions knew that Heiskanen wanted to come to the race if he was healthy. And Heiskanen knew he was waiting for Lehtinen’s message.

– It’s great that he’s coming – that there’s enough power and energy. A world-class defender. He wants to continue through and succeed, Lehtinen could tell.

The attackers also played in the Stars Joel Kiviranta mixed Roope Hintz and defenders Esa Lindell mixed Jani Hakanpää.

Hintz, who made an effort from Tampere, was on the sidelines for his team’s strength in the last game of the season.

– It was known that because he was out of line-up in the sevens game, it was a slightly more serious injury. Of course, he regretted that the hometown race would be missed. He had a strong desire to come in the past and we communicated so much that now he is missing. This is the kind of sport in between.

Lehtinen was more quiet about the other players. With Heiskanen, the Lion has eight defenders and 13 attackers. In addition Markus Nurmi is the 14th striker with the team, but his race pass has not been stamped.

Are the Lions looking for a defender or an attacker?

– Let’s see in peace. There is nothing to say about it yet.