Jokerit Helsinki 2014/15 Season Talk - Part II [MOD WARNING #439]

[Peter25]

Jokerit's average attendance has been 10716 this season. Not far cry from the official target set by Roman Rotenberg before the season.

Surprising, but nice. I didn't expect this to be fair.

 

[QnebO]

Flights, tickets, hotels booked. The KHL-Jokerit's game is definitely worth a visit.

 

[Peter25]

Flights, tickets, hotels booked. The KHL-Jokerit's game is definitely worth a visit.

Which way are you going?

 

[QnebO]

Which way are you going?

Kuopio-Helsinki-Kuopio, if you meant that?

Could sit that 5,5hours in the train when going.. definitely not in hangover when coming back on sunday. And the flight tickets are cheaper than train anyway when ordered early. And the game is 3/12 Jokerit - Metallurg Novokuznetsk

 

[Peter25]

Kuopio-Helsinki-Kuopio, if you meant that?

Could sit that 5,5hours in the train when going.. definitely not in hangover when coming back in sunday. And the flight tickets are cheaper than train anyway when ordered early. And the game is 3/12 Jokerit - Metallurg Novokuznetsk

Ah, sorry. I thought you were going to visit a Jokerit away game. But now I see you are going to Helsinki from Kuopio.

 

[Finnpin]

Jokerit's average attendance has been 10716 this season. Not far cry from the official target set by Roman Rotenberg before the season.

Surprising, but nice. I didn't expect this to be fair.

Rotenberg didn't set anything, it was CEO Kohonen/Kurri/etc. Roman Rotenberg isn't in daily operations in Jokerit.

Good average attendance considering they haven't had much weekend games. The marketing has done great job and also with different ticket packages and discounts.

 

[rafkon]

Karlsson is still in a good shape. Shootout in the last game of the Karjala-turnaus. Good for Jokerit, bad for the Finnish NT which lost today.

 

[QnebO]

Karlsson is still in a good shape. Shootout in the last game of the Karjala-turnaus. Good for Jokerit, bad for the Finnish NT which lost today.

Important home arena win for him as he has been better at road games

 

[Finnpin]

Jokerit top-10 goals so far:

http://www.jokerit.com/alkukauden-top-10-maalit

1. Moses
2. Moses
3. Koukal
4. Kapanen
5. Huhtala
6. Kapanen
7. Ben-Amor
8. Huhtala
9. Hagman
10. Omark

Few odd choices IMO and they missed JMAs beautiful goal from beginning of the season.

 

[Finnpin]

Jokerit signs Petteri Wirtanen, deal is this year + next year

http://www.jokerit.com/wirtanen-2-vuotiseen-sopimukseen

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=4222

 

[Urbanskog]

Jokerit signs Petteri Wirtanen, deal is this year + next

http://www.jokerit.com/wirtanen-2-vuotiseen-sopimukseen

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=4222

And McLean's contract was revoked. He seemed like a nice person, shame he wasn't that effective.

 

[Finnpin]

And McLean's contract was revoked. He seemed like a nice person, shame he wasn't that effective.

Yep, hope nothing but best for him...does any SM-liiga team need centre?

 

[Peter25]

Wirtanen is a big upgrade over McLean who gave the team nothing except winning faceoffs. Once Hagman is back we can expect something like this:

Hagman - Kapanen - Aaltonen
Huhtala - Wirtanen - Sallinen
Omark - Koukal - Moses
Harju - Hahl - Pöysti/Mäki/Ben-Amor/Rita

 

[JJTT]

^ Is Jokerit still waiting Selänne to sign or something? That RW depth behind Aaltonen and Moses is pretty bad.

 

[Urbanskog]

I thought the Donbass players were only allowed to sign one-year contracts though?

 

[Finnpin]

Wirtanen is a big upgrade over McLean who gave the team nothing except winning faceoffs.

Yep, McLean just couldn't produce in offense. Wirtanen isn't any scorer or playmaker but should do better than McLean. Jokerit is better team after these moves.

Edit.Wirtanen joins the team tomorrow but will not play on Sunday.

 

[Jussi]

Everton's director of marketing and communications went to Jokerit and HIFK's home games and compared the experiences: http://yle.fi/urheilu/valioliiga-pa...en_meno_saattaa_olla_liikaa_joillekin/7630593

Seems to echo the sentiments some Jokerit fans have been saying at Jatkoaika lately, ie. Rotenberg is trying to copy far too much of SKA's elements into Jokerit arena and it's eliminating "the natural fan element" for some people.

 

[Bakayoko Ono]

I thought the Donbass players were only allowed to sign one-year contracts though?

Wirtanen never signed an extension with Donbass after his contract expired last Spring.

 

[WeAre]

Everton's director of marketing and communications went to Jokerit and HIFK's home games and compared the experiences: http://yle.fi/urheilu/valioliiga-pa...en_meno_saattaa_olla_liikaa_joillekin/7630593

Seems to echo the sentiments some Jokerit fans have been saying at Jatkoaika lately, ie. Rotenberg is trying to copy far too much of SKA's elements into Jokerit arena and it's eliminating "the natural fan element" for some people.

That's not bad. I liked SKA's atmosphere. If you look at Jokerit Eteläpääty fans, there are mostly 10-12 years old fans nowdays so I don't expect from them anything.... Russians wins the fan culture compared to finland 100-0. And what comes to Hifk fan culture, it is much worse than Jokerit.


How much Slovan fans are arriving today to Hartwall Arena?

 

[QnebO]

If that football guy was in last Jokerit game, it was bad luck as it was worst game in long time after the break. Specially Dinamo was bad.

 

[penepi]

That's not bad. I liked SKA's atmosphere. If you look at Jokerit Eteläpääty fans, there are mostly 10-12 years old fans nowdays so I don't expect from them anything.... Russians wins the fan culture compared to finland 100-0. And what comes to Hifk fan culture, it is much worse than Jokerit.


How much Slovan fans are arriving today to Hartwall Arena?

Don't expect more than 200. We were approaching 400 pieces, however were missing a couple of places in the second plane, therefore, the supporters club was forced to cancel it completely.

 

[Jussi]

That's not bad. I liked SKA's atmosphere. If you look at Jokerit Eteläpääty fans, there are mostly 10-12 years old fans nowdays so I don't expect from them anything.... Russians wins the fan culture compared to finland 100-0. And what comes to Hifk fan culture, it is much worse than Jokerit.


How much Slovan fans are arriving today to Hartwall Arena?

The Jokerit fans who went on the trip found it to be loud but far too organized via jumbotron etc. Supposedly they couldn't hear the SKA Ultras much because they were drowned by the PA guy trying get the people to make noise. That's what the Everton guy was trying to say about HIFK, their fans or the crowd weren't constantly lead by PAs or jumbotron, it was more "natural". Eteläpääty used to be more in control of things when it came to atmosphere at Hartwall.

By the way they played the interview during yesterday's Kiekkokierros on YLE Puhe (possible during the second intermission) and it should be available at YLE Areena.

 

[Jakk123]

Lol, if you guys don´t turn the puck over, we can´t even create a single scoring chance. Sad.

 

[WeAre]

The Jokerit fans who went on the trip found it to be loud but far too organized via jumbotron etc. Supposedly they couldn't hear the SKA Ultras much because they were drowned by the PA guy trying get the people to make noise. That's what the Everton guy was trying to say about HIFK, their fans or the crowd weren't constantly lead by PAs or jumbotron, it was more "natural". Eteläpääty used to be more in control of things when it came to atmosphere at Hartwall.

By the way they played interview during yesterday's Kiekkokierros on YLE Puhe (possible during the second intermission) and it should be available at YLE Areena.

We were in St.Peterburg watching the game so I know what it is. People there were very nice and I enjoyed the game. Talked also with Jari Litmanen I'll go back.

"Hifk more natural" That means that no one claps their hands and they are usually silent. Been there, seen that also. However KHL:s fan culture beats for example Hifks 100-0.

Referees in this game

 

[Jussi]

We were in St.Peterburg watching the game so I know what it is. People there were very nice and I enjoyed the game. Talked also with Jari Litmanen I'll go back.

"Hifk more natural" That means that no one claps their hands and they are usually silent. Been there, seen that also. However KHL:s fan culture beats for example Hifks 100-0.

Referees in this game

With IFK fans in general (might as well say Finnish fans even) it depends on the quality of the game and the TPS one certainly provided goals and entertainment so the fans were naturally more involved in it.