Henry Lehvonen played four season in the SM-league. It was the particular Herb Brooks ‘ anger and Matti Väisänen shrift.Henry Lehvonen (second from left) played in his career last season 1981-82 Ilveksessä. In the picture are also Antti Heikkilä, Lasse Oksanen and Jari Järvinen. Lynx archive
it was in the 70s one of the young SM-league of the first foreign reinforcement, even though the name it revealed.
Lehvosen, 68, the roots are in Finland. His parents moved from Finland to Canada in the 1950s.
Lehvosen return the background was the late Aarne honka danger , the Finnish hockey ancestors and Lynx legendary paint the cannon.
Aarne and my father were good friends, Lehvonen told the evening newspaper.
– Aarne lived in the 50s we in Ontario and played for the Sarnia Sailorsin.
Lehvonen scored a summer return visit to the pine at risk after high school.
Aarne and his family was at the cottage, so I’m staying at their apartment. I work out of Lynx with and hung out mainly Timo Lahtinen and Lasse Oksanen .
Four NHL games
Lehvonen returned home and played in the junior league’s Kitchener rangers in so mightily, that the NHL-follow the Minnesota North Stars to afford him in the summer of 1970. Lehvonen twist farm in the league but to get a taste of some NHL-kiekkoakin, Kansas City Scouts shirt in the fourth match of the amount of season 1974-75.
the Game ended in 1977. Come swing, and I had knee surgery.
Intermediate and rehabilitation after the season, in the summer of 1978 Lehvonen go again to Finland.
– I Was then a 28-year-old, he adds.
– Finland leaving was my father’s proposal, and probably just Aarnen tempted by end of Lynx summer practice in August.
operated by the knee didn’t work properly, and Lynx offered a premier league contract.
Matti Väisänen (jokers of fresh head coach) announced that we will take you. That way I ended up in Finland and Jokers, Lehvonen times.
Months later, the bad knee started to be okay again.
Väisänen shrift
SM-league had not yet been in the late 70’s first fully professional mbalax style of the series, but Lehvonen, David Conte and Bob Barnes , with the canadians, operate quite professionally – or at least not been at work.
– we had a seven o’clock morning practice, after which part of the guys went to work and a few of the younger army, Lehvonen recalls.
the three of Us killed time or we went to the gym and this afternoon we’re going to another practice.
One day a woman reporter arrived to do a story on the canadian confirmation.
He arrived at Dave’s apartment one afternoon and asked, what are you doing a morning and afternoon workout. Dave said that we don’t do anything. He got confused, turned to me and asked, what do you do training between. I replied that I help Dave, Lehvonen stories.
– of course Väisänen confess us about it the next day.
Brooks USA bend
Jokers was in the late 1970s SM-league her pääläinen, but in September 1979, the team grabbed a nice scalp. Miracle on Ice -the journey upstream was Team USA, Herb Brooks masterpiece, the bends jokers for a training match.
– Väisänen asked before the match me to ask Brooks, can we name the assembly of the 25 players, Lehvonen tell.
Brooks responded that the name a hundred players, but we’ll give you the back.
Jokers won 4-1.
I Think I marked the paint and the feed point, Lehvonen smiles.
Brooks rushed to the hall, out the back door and refused to speak with journalists.
Räikkös-fanitus
Lehvonen played Jokereissa two of the season and moved the two through your Bobcat, decide his career. Statistics record a total of 122 SM-league matches, 29 (9+20) points and 168 penalty minutes.
Today, Lehvonen lives in Florida.
Henry Lehvosen from the shelf to find her late father Aarne honka from danger gift-books (2006).
– my Surgeon calls to change at some point to the south or I could get my knee arthritis, Lehvonen stories.
I Moved here in 1997. After the knee has been good.
Lehvonen runs real estate brokerage business, but it’s also a spectator sport of hockey, and formula, supisuomalaiseen way.
I’m a NHL fan, of course. Look at most of the Florida games, but in the hall comes to only three or four times a year, he stated.
I’m also hard F1 fan and I follow closely Kimi Raikkonen kisaamis.
