The Ice Hockey Association made a hard capture. Pekka Rinne, who played 683 NHL regular season games, is the next goalkeeper coach of the under-20 national team.
Pekka Rinne played a long and handsome career in the NHL in the jersey of the Nashville Predators. AOP / USA TODAY SPORTS
According to the information obtained by Iltalehti, he is 39 years old Pekka Rinne joins the Finnish Ice Hockey Association’s goalie coaching. Rinne takes over the coaching of the goalkeepers of the under-20 national team.
Rinne joins Tomi Lämsän to the coaching team. The new coaching team will be in real action for the first time in mid-November, when Finland will go to the tournament in the Czech Republic with two teams.
The main goal of Rinne and the entire team next season is the World Championships in Halifax, Canada at the turn of the year.
The most games
In Kempele, Rinne brought up his own enormous experience in the world’s toughest hockey league, the NHL. Rinne played a total of 683 NHL regular season games in a Predators shirt. That is the most among Finnish goalkeepers.
Rinne’s shirt was frozen in a ceremony at the end of February and it was raised on the roof of the Bridgestone Arena. Game number 35 can no longer be worn by anyone in the Predators.
The story continues after the fact box.
Finnish goalkeepers
Most NHL regular season games:
1. Pekka Rinne – 683
2. Kari Lehtonen – 649
3. Miikka Kiprusoff – 623
4. Tuukka Rask – 564
5. Antti Niemi – 464
6. Niklas Bäckström – 413
A statue in front of the arena is also coming to the slope.
Rinne was one of the world’s best goalkeepers of his time. The Norwegian Ice Hockey Association pulled the right strings when they hired Rinnee as a goalie coach.
Also in August, the WC tournament
The under-20 national team has a busy season ahead. In just a couple of weeks in August, the age group World Championships will be played. The venue is Edmonton.
It is a replacement tournament, as the age group World Championships had to be stopped due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic at the turn of last year. We will try again in August with the same teams.
Antti Pennanen works as a coach in the August tournament, takes care of the goalkeeper coach’s plot Juha Lehtola.
Finland will play its first game on August 10 against Latvia.