HIFK made a major blunder! HS: Top name offered themselves to the club – “One of the best”
The hiring of sports director Janne Pesonen, who became the biggest scapegoat in HIFK’s early season turmoil, has been widely questioned in hockey circles since the Helsinki club appointed the former star forward as their new club boss.
Legendary HIFK figure Göran Stubb, 90, has now revealed to Helsingin Sanomat that Janne Vuorinen, one of the league’s most respected club bosses, offered himself for the position before Pesonen was hired.
– You need to have contacts and knowledge about the hockey world to make the right personnel choices. I know that one of Finland’s best sports directors, Janne Vuorinen, applied to HIFK twice, but he was not deemed suitable for HIFK, Stubb reveals, referring to the top name who was hired as sports director for Tappara this season.
– HIFK has brought in inexperienced guys as sports directors. First it was Tobias Salmelainen and now Janne Pesonen. Both are nice guys, but the results speak for themselves, Stubb states.
Vuorinen, 42, served as the club boss of Ässät for three seasons before his position at Tappara.
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