Finland gets huge boost to World Championship team with two blueliners from Dallas
The 2022 IIHF World Hockey Championship hosts are about to get a pair of reinforcements on the blueline.
On Wednesday, the Finnish Ice Hockey Association announced that Dallas Stars defencemen Miro Heiskanen and Esa Lindell will be joining the team for the remainder of the tournament.
With the Dallas Stars duo being added to Finland's roster, forward Markus Nurmi, who wasn't registered, will now leave the team.
Note: the following was translated from Finnish.
"Great to get Esa along. This time we ended up with a solution where we have nine defenders and 13 forwards," said general manager Jere Lehtinen.
Heiskanen and Lindell will meet up with the Finns on Thursday and could play on Friday against Great Britain (9:20 a.m. ET/4:20 p.m. local).
Source: Leijonat.
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