Raimo Helminen heard the ferocious speeches of himself-“Fucking stuff”

Lappeenranta SaiPa plays in the SM League Finals.

If someone had let such a sentence a sentence a year ago, it would have sounded like absurd hallucinity.

Last season, SaiPa was the worst team in the Finnish Champions League’s recent history, whose ravine hike was just an hour away from the end of the bankruptcy. Hope had died from South Karelia.

Until the scene stepped Raimo Helminen.

But even then, no one was talking about any finals. Helminen got a dozen in one of the smallest player budgets in the series, with over a dozen of the same players as the historically weak in the previous season.

SaiPa was estimated at 15-16 in the season’s preliminary ranks. Now it’s in the finals.

“It sounds great. At least in SaiPa’s ears,” Helminen smiles.

Nobody could predict SaiPa as a finalist with a serious face at the beginning of the season. There was no small sign of such a sensation.

Before the start of the season, Helminen announced the goal of his team to reach the playoffs, the top 12. It also sounded a bit optimistic.

Although SaiPa reached the winning streak of 14 matches in November-December and was at the top of the series, Helminen also repeated the target of 12 reach.

A little over the top.

“Well, that’s what it says,” Maestro says.

SaiPan The fairy tale has strongly personalized the modest Helm, 61.

He has become the face of the club. Helminen has been baptized into Lappeenranta Messiah and Midas, who has made the impossible possible.

“Pretty crazy stuff,” Helminen murmurs as he mentioned.

One way or another, but Helminen is the biggest figure in the SM league season, the name of which SaiPan fans sing in ecstasy.

Adult men are crying in the race park. Even the need for Helminen’s visual statue is discussed.

In the streets of Lappeenranta, Helminen’s pictures adorn SaiPa ads. In social media, it is considered whether Helminen could become a new Pope.

“Yes, it is useless to exaggerate,” Helminen says.

“Players’ pictures should be full of streets.”

Helminen himself is not known to bang his braces. But to whom does he want to give the glory of SaiPa’s fabulous rise from the tomb’s beard to historic splendor?

“Of course, the biggest honor always goes to the players. They do that work. They put themselves down, go under the reel, under the tackles. They are attacking and sheds sweat. You always belong to the honor,” Helminen says emphatically.

“Of course, our entire coaching team too. I guess the whole club has done its best,” Helminen continues.

SaiPan Every month of the winning of the Rauma Lace Tournament was expected to coagulate. We will soon be on May, and the SaiPan Kone is still grinding.

Although close to clotting, he took a round of the playoffs immediately against TPS, but SaiPa rose from the gap to a 3-2 victory from the gap to a 3-2 victory.

Helminen has talked about reaching 12, but when did he himself believe that this team really had the opportunity to go much further?

“I haven’t thought about it at all. And I still can’t think.”

“We have gone from the beginning day by day. It has been the thing. My mind and the whole mind of coaching have been such that we only try to do things every day as well as we can,” Helminen reveals SaiPa’s success as a “secret.”

Sauna There has been a very cohesive team throughout the season. Its an extraordinary number of Finnish players is also noteworthy.

SaiPa went to the season with few alien reinforcements, of which only Ondrej Trejbal continued in the club until the end of the season. During the season, the team also acquired NHL Konkari, defender Mark stay and the second goalkeeper Michael Hutchinsonin.

This season, a record of foreign players was broken this season. A total of 160 foreigners played in the series, making an average of ten teams.

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“There’s a lot of respect for KalPa. A very good team that plays a truly moving puck.”

SaiPa swims completely upstream in the trend, as is the second finalist of KalPa with his five confirmations.

Correspondingly, the pre -finals, Lukko and Ilves, who had fallen in the semi -finals, were also more than ten alien legends of foreign confirmation this season.

“We had the intention of being as domestic as possible. SaiPa has been believed at least this year,” Helminen says.

Why?

“I don’t know. It can be more cohesive so. But even those Ulkkari can get a cohesive team. It’s not up to it.”

Hell The balance as head coach in the SM League is to freeze. He has now coached two full seasons in the series and taken both times to his team finals.

In 2021, Helminen made a sensation trick at the helm of TPS, now more than even more harder in Lappeenranta.

Despite TPS’s surprise silver, Helm has never been considered a very strange coach before. It is already survived by looking at his CV. One season’s snacks here and there, sometimes as an assistant coach somewhere.

Now he has been able to show his skills properly and the eyes of many have opened.

“I don’t think so.”

In recent years, Helminen has often been unemployed until it has been found in Italy or Slovakia some half -season.

“At least it hasn’t always been available to offer that,” Helminen says now when asking for a job in recent years.

Now Helminen has suddenly risen to the hottest coach names in the country.

“Well it’s hard to say. Next season is in Lappeenranta,” he says.

Before For the first time, there will be a final series on Friday in Kuopio against KalPa.

This is the first finale of the SM League’s 50-year history, where neither team has ever won the Finnish Championship before.

“There’s a lot of respect for KalPa. A very good team that plays a really moving puck. Strong than what,” Helminen praises.

There are two really skating teams in the finals. Perhaps even the toughest skating teams in the entire league.

“KalPa is at least certainly. I don’t know where we are going. Let’s get lost then,” Mimmo’s puck comes.

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