I had the opportunity to bring former Hamilton Bulldog and Montreal Canadien Joonas Nättinen on as a guest on ‘PuckDrop’, continuing the Finnish theme this week.
Joonas spent three years with the Hamilton Bulldogs and then another year with Modo in the SHL before returning to Finland and Liiga. While coaches and teams in Liiga ask him for his advise about former AHL players, Nättinen speaks about Sylvain Lefebvre and mentions that "He was a good coach. He was very strict, but pretty much all North American coaches are strict." He would not point fingers to the coach as "he [the coach] had a lot to offer his players".