During the league season, a new book was published, which has not received the attention it deserves in public.
This is descriptive in the sense that in the same way, the interest of the media and the bright lights of the big league cities are usually targeted at very different teams other than North Savona and South Karelian SaiPa.
Last spring, things were different.
Contrary to all expectations, the championship was settled in the final series between KalPa and Super Sensation SaiPa, and the beam focused not only on both teams but also their hometowns.
When KalPa and Lappeenranta SaiPa met in the finals, it was clear that Finland would get a new ice hockey master. Finland got a lot more. KalPa and SaiPa showed the meanings of sports at their most beautiful.
These Yellow -black spring The words of the book summarize the core message of a 236-page book.
In addition to the merciless and dramatic battle of the teams, the finals 2025 are remembered for the joy and community of sports, which even crossed the boundaries between the provinces.
The fans of both clubs, on the other hand, set an example across the species of how they can encourage unrestrained but also with friendship and respect for the opponent and its supporters.
The rich illustration of the Yellow Black Spring book conveys the mood of a memorable finals series. Elmeri Elo
Photographer Elmeri Elon over 300 photographs vividly recall the colorful events of the matches and the magical atmosphere of the big sports party.
Harri Pirinen, a journalist and writer of Rauma-based journalist-fiction writer, and numerous emotional interviews moistened the eye of another Western Finnish journalist, such an eternal sports rose.
It should be clarified that no blue -yellow glasses are needed to say this. If the glasses are in one color, this time they are yellow black.
With his full heart, Pirinen knows how much that unique matches meant to the players, the audience, the club players and many other parties.
Emotions also come to the surface with the reader, even if they do not belong to the actual fans of KalPa or SaiPa, for which the book certainly has a historical value.
As a recording of the exceptional culmination of the SM League, the work also has value in the view of the entire Finnish sports literature.
Feeling. There is a word that there is more to talk about in the book.
From time to time, there is a heated debate around the Suomi-Kiekko about what emphasis is on which area is in achieving success. The schools have been on the hair.
At the beginning of time, a competitive advantage was found on the technical side, in individual skills. Ice hockey was a game of players.
Physics began to emphasize in the 1970s, first as power characteristics and then as a sustainability of Kallu Numminen in front of Tappara. The hardest team won.
The teams have always had some tactics, and this millennium has a growing importance.
Finland-Kiekko has gained a competitive advantage, especially during Jukka Jalonen’s lion years, when the so-called game principles and committed cooperation struck better player materials on the board- After all, this is a team sport.
Of course, in all these areas, it still plays an important role, and success comes from the whole.
But what makes a difference when everything is in the lollipop? What is the most important thing about the game?
According to interviews with the book, there is no ambiguity.
Petri Karjalainen, who has coached the first championship in club history in KalPa, is happy to talk and a lot of play, but for him, the most important thing is still the most important thing in the game.
– If there is no feeling and efortgame methods have no meaning. Both are needed, but I don’t believe that in any performance, the game can take precedence over the feeling, Karjalainen says in the book.
SaiPa coach Raimo Helminen also emphasizes the importance of the right emotional state.
– Each player does a big job with emotional state. Emotional state is important so that it can go a little over than below. Then you can get a little more out, Helminen says, however, reminds that winning the championship requires “all things and a little luck”.
– You should be able to work enough to earn happiness.
Raimo Helminen thanked the audience of Lappeenranta’s “horny liter” in SaiPa’s club history with the brightest medal around her neck. Mikko Lieri / AOP
SaiPa’s captain Ville Petman praises Helminen’s contribution in the book.
– Raipe knows how to teach small gaming things that are of great importance. There are really good advice on the most important things. For example, in the rhythm of the game, he has been able to help a lot.
However, according to Petman, the most important thing is the faith created by Helminen for his players.
– Raip has a big impact on the players’ confidence, he says, summarizing that the three biggest things are “self -confidence, courage to play and good fitness”.
In addition, Petman raises the same thing as KalPa captain Tuomas Kiiskinen, who has ended his career at the Gold Festival: Unity.
– Above all, this team comes to mind unity. Many people say the same, but that unity is absolutely incredible. We laugh in the group, and everyone has the opportunity to say anything and throw a joke. Everyone can be themselves, Kiiskinen emphasizes the importance of the team’s atmosphere in their decision words.
Today, the coach’s most typical answer to where the team draws a competitive advantage is: everyday.
Of course, athletic lifestyles and determination are important. However, it remains a mystery where that advantage comes from when almost every species man’s answer is exactly the same.
Yellow black spring The interviews are a refreshing exception.
The finals’ coaches and heroes are not satisfied with the background of success in a good everyday life that has become a fashionable phrase.
The hockey team needs the “all things” mentioned by Helminen.
Everything is also possible to develop not only the curvature of the stage, but the biggest role when the differences at the top are marginal, the spiritual side rises.
Alpo Suhonen, who spoke for human-oriented coaching since the 1970s, and Erkka Westerlund, who has also raised the game’s coaching demands about twenty years ago, have been right all the time.
However, from the point of view of the message of the message, they may have been too fundamentalistic with their time with their time.
Technical, physical and tactical issues provide the foundation, but the coach is just a guru that gets the most out of the potential of a common spirit and mental.
Many clubs rely on the help of an external professional in mental coaching – or mental coaching is a team’s coaching team – but The head coach is ultimately responsible for being mentally strong.
In order not to be too simple, you can now ask why Karelian and Helminen, who will continue in SaiPa, haven’t got their teams on this season, even though they know what to win?
The answer contains the word yet – not yet have not received – both the fact and There is such an insane amount of changing factors in the sport that no one can fully control them.
It also lies the subtlety of the species.
Like last spring, this fall has already shown how surprising the SM League is.
Power ratios can throw the bullfight in a completely unexpected way.
Harri Pirinen and Elmeri Elo: Yellow Black Spring. Harri Bookstore.