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Happy hunting with the Predators! Farewell Eeli from the KHL
It is time to wish good luck and bon voyage to the youngest ever scorer of a KHL hat-trick, the man who set a new League record for total points scored by an 18-year-old in a season, Jokerit's top sniper, six-time winner of Rookie of the Week, to add to Forward of the Week and Forward of the Month (October, 2017)... We speak, of course, of Finnish teenage sensation Eeli Tolvanen.
Datsyuk: "Open-air hockey is a trip back to childhood."
With a mere seven days remaining until the Helsinki Ice Challenge – the celebratory match under open skies between Jokerit and SKA, marking the 10th season of the League and the 50th birthday of HC Jokerit – we asked the leaders of both participating teams about the forthcoming event.
Eeli Tolvanen: "Only in KHL I can grow faster as a player"
- Eeli, it seemed that you can’t predict that first game in KHL would be like this? A hat trick, big win for Jokerit.
- It was great. Good start of the season for me and our team. Hope that we could continue in this way. It was a great effort from everybody in our team, we showed that we have a good team. I couldn’t expect that I would score three goals, but it was a hard game, one of the hardest in my career. But partners helped me a lot.
