Finland will get a brand new head coach for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship. The Finnish Ice Hockey Association signed a two-year contract with Tomi Lamsa as head coach of the Finnish U20 nationwide staff till spring 2024.
Lamsa was teaching in Finland’s prime league earlier than being employed by KHL membership Salavat Yulayev Ufa the place he was the top coach for the previous two seasons. He replaces Kari Jalonen, who was initially introduced as head coach for the upcoming season however has turn into the top coach of the Czech males’s nationwide staff as a substitute.
Antti Pennanen will stay head coach of the present U20 nationwide staff that can compete in August on the postponed 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship.