NHL nice Pekka Rinne as goalkeeping coach for the Younger Lions – Muricas News

Good-looking ended his goalkeeping profession final yr Pekka Rinne joins the Finnish under-20 males’s nationwide ice hockey crew as a goalie coach.

Former NHL nice Rinne is the pinnacle coach of the Younger Lions Tomi Lämsän within the teaching group with a contract that culminates within the World Cup event to be performed on the flip of subsequent yr.

That is the 39-year-old Rinne’s first teaching session.

“I am going to work stuffed with enthusiasm. I hope that I've one thing to provide younger goalkeepers from my taking part in profession. They're on the level of their profession the place I imagine I can provide them essential suggestions,” Rinne advised Leijonien within the bulletin.

Rinne represented the Nashville Predators on the NHL ice between 2005 and 2021, and was voted the league’s finest goaltender in 2018.

Subsequent The World Cup event for under-20s shall be exceptionally performed from ninth to twentieth. August in Alberta, because the event was suspended resulting from corona infections on the finish of final yr. He's chargeable for Finland’s teaching throughout the event Antti Pennanen led teaching group.