A lot of perceiver had questioned Raty to track down a final Cold temperatures Video game hurrah
Finland gets in brand new 2022 Olympic ladies’ hockey contest since protecting bronze medalists out of both the 2018 Winter season Video game during the South Korea while the 2021 IIHF Freeze Hockey Ladies Industry Title within the Canada. Musical fairly simple, right? But there’s so much more here than just fits the eye into Nordic nation that lies third on the IIHF Ladies’ Globe Positions.
That is a group from inside the changeover around Pasi Mustonen, who can act as lead coach within their next and you may past Olympics. Teens is side and you may heart. The fresh new Beijing roster, launched to the 20 January, enjoys an impressive 13 Olympic basic-timers, including 7 skaters born following season 2000.
It’s very much like the team one to strike the freeze inside Calgary inside August, although exemption regarding goalie Noora Raty – a four-go out Olympian exactly who backstopped Finland so you can tan in 2010 and 2018 and you may a probably coming IIHF Hall-of-famer – qualifies since the good shocker.
Raty, 32, clashed which have Mustonen publicly this past year whenever she opted to perform her hockey college or university when you look at the Minnesota in place of get in on the Ladies’ Planets group. Nevertheless, the newest tenacious and you will competent experienced starred having HPK Hameenlinna this year, are greeting into Olympic studies go camping, together with already wanted to rejoin the brand new Russian Ladies Hockey League’s KRS Vanke Radiation after Beijing.
Mustonen, even in the event, is also justify his controversial choice by directing to help you Anni Keisala’s high overall performance for the Calgary. The fresh new twenty-four-year-old Ilves netminder – a great positionally sound, chill battler – try named Top Goalie and you can an event all the-star at the Ladies Planets (step 1.43 GAA, 94.8 conserve percentage, a couple shutouts). Meeri Raisanen, thirty-two, brings a competent solution, as the experienced of 5 Women’s Worlds don’t gamble at the lady a couple prior Olympics (2014, 2018).
This new million-dollars question is if or not either Keisala otherwise Raisanen is capable of duplicating the latest wonders Raty exhibited at the background-making cost the fresh silver medal from the 2019 Ladies Worlds inside Espoo. Around, Raty generated 43 preserves into the a 4-2 partial-finally upset over Canada and another 50 preserves from the controversial 2-step one gold-medal shootout losses to the Americans.
Inside the Beijing, 26-year-dated Eveliina Makinen (nee Suonpaa), just who, particularly Raisanen, seated on sidelines on both the 2014 and you can 2018 Video game, nabs the 3rd goalie put. She substitute Jenna Silvonen, the brand new 23-year-old Mercyhurst School netminder who noticed when you look at the Calgary.
Master Jenni Hiirikoski statements the latest Finnish blueline. Named Greatest Defender from the last one or two Olympics and you will seven Ladies’ Worlds, this new swift-skating 34-year-dated superstar takes on in virtually any condition. Hiirikoski averaged a competition-high of ice amount of time in Calgary. Almost every other secret all-as much as blueliners were Hiirikoski’s strong Lulea HF teammate Ronja Savolainen and you will Minttu Tuominen, that will register Raty and you may send Susanna Tapani into Vanke Light once Beijing.
Stunning finnish ladies
A notable blueline omission is actually 33-year-dated Rosa Lindstedt, good three-date Olympian whom captains Brynas Gavle but is slowed from the wounds in 2010. That leaves brand new onus into the about three young Kiekko-Espoo defenders to transmit next-level a couple-means activities.
Nelli Laitinen (12+34=46) and you may Sanni Rantala (14+30=44), one another 19, review step one-dos into the scoring certainly one of Naisten Liiga defenders, if you find yourself Ella Viitasuo, twenty five, (16+24=40) try third. It Olympics scratching Rantala’s elderly-height IIHF first. It trio’s capability to withstand the newest forechecking of United states superpowers might be pivotal.
Offensively, there isn’t any question the major pass distinct Petra Nieminen, Susanna Tapani, and you can Michelle Karvinen often direct how.
The newest volatile Nieminen, 22, led new Women’s Planets having half dozen goals en route so you can a keen all-superstar class berth. The fresh Lulea winger is next into the SDHL rating (24+28=52) at the rear of Brynas Gavle’s Swiss celebrity Lara Stalder. Tapani – a skilled athlete whom and dominates worldwide during the inline hockey and you can ringette – commonly point with her playmaking skills to get more requirements out away from Karvinen, a fellow experienced whom chipped in the half dozen facilitate however, did not light the newest red-light from the 2021 Ladies Planets.
Karvinen, 30, was typing the lady last Olympics and added the 2014 contest during the Sochi with five goals. Brand new Danish-Finnish power send enjoys filled the net inside 10 online game which have Malmo Redhawks (26+21=47) on Swedish first department this season.
After that, this new margin ranging from profit and defeat against Canada together with You.S. will most likely count precisely how far additional scoring Mustonen will get. From inside the Calgary, the fresh Canadians rallied to conquer Finland 5-3 on the opener, once the You.S. blanked Finland step three-0 both in the group phase additionally the partial-finals.
Kiekko-Espoo’s Elisa Holopainen (38+46=84), bidding in order to earn this lady third straight Naisten Liiga scoring label, got the lady solitary Women’s Worlds objective up against Canada. Gritty Lulea submit Viivi Vainikka’s merely mission try the final you to definitely for the an excellent 6-0 romp more than Switzerland. Lulea veteran Noora Tulus, a several-date Swedish winner, features lay an alternative personal profession SDHL packed with requirements so it seasons (18), but has never obtained inside IIHF race because 2017 Ladies’ Globes. All of these forwards must generate far more for the Beijing.
Rating out of precocious 16-year-old Sanni Vanhanen, whom potted the fresh step 1-0 quarter-finally winner facing Czechia within the Calgary, might be an attractive extra. Brand new Finns can also anticipate price and you may an excellent examining regarding likes from Olympic debutante Sofianna Sundelin and 2nd-timekeeper Sanni Hakala.
The newest Finns features certainly separated themselves of Group A rivals instance the fresh new ROC class and you will Switzerland. The latest Russians last-made a keen IIHF podium on 2016 Women’s Worlds bronze medal, as Swiss have not won any steel given that alarming 2014 Olympic tan medal when you look at the Sochi. It will be easy one to Czechia, with pressed Finland tough in 2 consecutive Ladies Planets one-fourth-finals now, will get pose the most significant counterthreat to possess third put.
To possess Mustonen’s staff, anything less than winning the country’s 4th Olympic bronze medal off all time from inside the Beijing will be a major frustration. But really putting some Olympic latest for the first time at this moment appears like an extended take to. In either case, it’ll be another important step up the brand new Finnish federal team’s maturation process.
Lineup
Defenders Jenni Hiirikoski, Lulea HF (SWE) wooplus Sini Karjalainen, University out of New york (NCAA) Nelli Laitinen, Kiekko-Espoo Sanni Rantala, Kiekko-Espoo Ronja Savolainen, Lulea Gavle (SWE) Minnamari Tuominen, Kiekko-Espoo Ella Viitasuo, Kiekko-Espoo
Ahead Sanni Hakala, HV71 Jonkoping (SWE) Elisa Holopainen, Kiekko-Espoo Michelle Karvinen, Malmo Redhawks (SWE) Julia Liikala, HIFK Helsinki Petra Nieminen, Lulea HF (SWE) Tanja Niskanen, KalPa Kuopio Jenniina Nylund, St. Cloud Condition (NCAA) Sofianna Sundelin, Class Kuortane Susanna Tapani, KRS Vanke Light (CHN/RUS) Noora Tulus, Lulea HF (SWE) Viivi Vainikka, Lulea HF (SWE) Sanni Vanhanen, Tappara Tampere Emilia Vesa, Kiekko-Espoo
A lot of perceiver had questioned Raty to track down a final Cold temperatures Video game hurrah
Finland gets in brand new 2022 Olympic ladies’ hockey contest since protecting bronze medalists out of both the 2018 Winter season Video game during the South Korea while the 2021 IIHF Freeze Hockey Ladies Industry Title within the Canada. Musical fairly simple, right? But there’s so much more here than just fits the eye into Nordic nation that lies third on the IIHF Ladies’ Globe Positions.
That is a group from inside the changeover around Pasi Mustonen, who can act as lead coach within their next and you may past Olympics. Teens is side and you may heart. The fresh new Beijing roster, launched to the 20 January, enjoys an impressive 13 Olympic basic-timers, including 7 skaters born following season 2000.
It’s very much like the team one to strike the freeze inside Calgary inside August, although exemption regarding goalie Noora Raty – a four-go out Olympian exactly who backstopped Finland so you can tan in 2010 and 2018 and you may a probably coming IIHF Hall-of-famer – qualifies since the good shocker.
Raty, 32, clashed which have Mustonen publicly this past year whenever she opted to perform her hockey college or university when you look at the Minnesota in place of get in on the Ladies’ Planets group. Nevertheless, the newest tenacious and you will competent experienced starred having HPK Hameenlinna this year, are greeting into Olympic studies go camping, together with already wanted to rejoin the brand new Russian Ladies Hockey League’s KRS Vanke Radiation after Beijing.
Mustonen, even in the event, is also justify his controversial choice by directing to help you Anni Keisala’s high overall performance for the Calgary. The fresh new twenty-four-year-old Ilves netminder – a great positionally sound, chill battler – try named Top Goalie and you can an event all the-star at the Ladies Planets (step 1.43 GAA, 94.8 conserve percentage, a couple shutouts). Meeri Raisanen, thirty-two, brings a competent solution, as the experienced of 5 Women’s Worlds don’t gamble at the lady a couple prior Olympics (2014, 2018).
This new million-dollars question is if or not either Keisala otherwise Raisanen is capable of duplicating the latest wonders Raty exhibited at the background-making cost the fresh silver medal from the 2019 Ladies Worlds inside Espoo. Around, Raty generated 43 preserves into the a 4-2 partial-finally upset over Canada and another 50 preserves from the controversial 2-step one gold-medal shootout losses to the Americans.
Inside the Beijing, 26-year-dated Eveliina Makinen (nee Suonpaa), just who, particularly Raisanen, seated on sidelines on both the 2014 and you can 2018 Video game, nabs the 3rd goalie put. She substitute Jenna Silvonen, the brand new 23-year-old Mercyhurst School netminder who noticed when you look at the Calgary.
Master Jenni Hiirikoski statements the latest Finnish blueline. Named Greatest Defender from the last one or two Olympics and you will seven Ladies’ Worlds, this new swift-skating 34-year-dated superstar takes on in virtually any condition. Hiirikoski averaged a competition-high of ice amount of time in Calgary. Almost every other secret all-as much as blueliners were Hiirikoski’s strong Lulea HF teammate Ronja Savolainen and you will Minttu Tuominen, that will register Raty and you may send Susanna Tapani into Vanke Light once Beijing.
Stunning finnish ladies
A notable blueline omission is actually 33-year-dated Rosa Lindstedt, good three-date Olympian whom captains Brynas Gavle but is slowed from the wounds in 2010. That leaves brand new onus into the about three young Kiekko-Espoo defenders to transmit next-level a couple-means activities.
Nelli Laitinen (12+34=46) and you may Sanni Rantala (14+30=44), one another 19, review step one-dos into the scoring certainly one of Naisten Liiga defenders, if you find yourself Ella Viitasuo, twenty five, (16+24=40) try third. It Olympics scratching Rantala’s elderly-height IIHF first. It trio’s capability to withstand the newest forechecking of United states superpowers might be pivotal.
Offensively, there isn’t any question the major pass distinct Petra Nieminen, Susanna Tapani, and you can Michelle Karvinen often direct how.
The newest volatile Nieminen, 22, led new Women’s Planets having half dozen goals en route so you can a keen all-superstar class berth. The fresh Lulea winger is next into the SDHL rating (24+28=52) at the rear of Brynas Gavle’s Swiss celebrity Lara Stalder. Tapani – a skilled athlete whom and dominates worldwide during the inline hockey and you can ringette – commonly point with her playmaking skills to get more requirements out away from Karvinen, a fellow experienced whom chipped in the half dozen facilitate however, did not light the newest red-light from the 2021 Ladies Planets.
Karvinen, 30, was typing the lady last Olympics and added the 2014 contest during the Sochi with five goals. Brand new Danish-Finnish power send enjoys filled the net inside 10 online game which have Malmo Redhawks (26+21=47) on Swedish first department this season.
After that, this new margin ranging from profit and defeat against Canada together with You.S. will most likely count precisely how far additional scoring Mustonen will get. From inside the Calgary, the fresh Canadians rallied to conquer Finland 5-3 on the opener, once the You.S. blanked Finland step three-0 both in the group phase additionally the partial-finals.
Kiekko-Espoo’s Elisa Holopainen (38+46=84), bidding in order to earn this lady third straight Naisten Liiga scoring label, got the lady solitary Women’s Worlds objective up against Canada. Gritty Lulea submit Viivi Vainikka’s merely mission try the final you to definitely for the an excellent 6-0 romp more than Switzerland. Lulea veteran Noora Tulus, a several-date Swedish winner, features lay an alternative personal profession SDHL packed with requirements so it seasons (18), but has never obtained inside IIHF race because 2017 Ladies’ Globes. All of these forwards must generate far more for the Beijing.
Rating out of precocious 16-year-old Sanni Vanhanen, whom potted the fresh step 1-0 quarter-finally winner facing Czechia within the Calgary, might be an attractive extra. Brand new Finns can also anticipate price and you may an excellent examining regarding likes from Olympic debutante Sofianna Sundelin and 2nd-timekeeper Sanni Hakala.
The newest Finns features certainly separated themselves of Group A rivals instance the fresh new ROC class and you will Switzerland. The latest Russians last-made a keen IIHF podium on 2016 Women’s Worlds bronze medal, as Swiss have not won any steel given that alarming 2014 Olympic tan medal when you look at the Sochi. It will be easy one to Czechia, with pressed Finland tough in 2 consecutive Ladies Planets one-fourth-finals now, will get pose the most significant counterthreat to possess third put.
To possess Mustonen’s staff, anything less than winning the country’s 4th Olympic bronze medal off all time from inside the Beijing will be a major frustration. But really putting some Olympic latest for the first time at this moment appears like an extended take to. In either case, it’ll be another important step up the brand new Finnish federal team’s maturation process.
Lineup
Defenders Jenni Hiirikoski, Lulea HF (SWE) wooplus Sini Karjalainen, University out of New york (NCAA) Nelli Laitinen, Kiekko-Espoo Sanni Rantala, Kiekko-Espoo Ronja Savolainen, Lulea Gavle (SWE) Minnamari Tuominen, Kiekko-Espoo Ella Viitasuo, Kiekko-Espoo
Ahead Sanni Hakala, HV71 Jonkoping (SWE) Elisa Holopainen, Kiekko-Espoo Michelle Karvinen, Malmo Redhawks (SWE) Julia Liikala, HIFK Helsinki Petra Nieminen, Lulea HF (SWE) Tanja Niskanen, KalPa Kuopio Jenniina Nylund, St. Cloud Condition (NCAA) Sofianna Sundelin, Class Kuortane Susanna Tapani, KRS Vanke Light (CHN/RUS) Noora Tulus, Lulea HF (SWE) Viivi Vainikka, Lulea HF (SWE) Sanni Vanhanen, Tappara Tampere Emilia Vesa, Kiekko-Espoo