Sasu Hovi

• Former professional goalie and a goalie coach • Has great connections with ice hockey professionals • Specialist in Finnish ice hockey know-how • Internationally connected in the ice hockey world • Founder of HDC concept • High level Finnish ice hockey professionals and know-how from other countries helped Sasu to build a unique concept for player and coach development. HDC Finland Coaches • Pasi Puistola, two time World Champion as a player is determined to reach the top of the world level in coaching. He was already chosen to the coaching team of soon after player career. At HDC Finland Pasi is in charge of professional players and coaches.

• Jarkko Näppilä is well known for his body physics and hard work mentality. After his professional player career Jarkko has educated himself by studying in Sport University pedagogy of sports, nutrition science and biology of sports. Jarkko has a wide experience of individual skills coaching at Finnish Ice Hockey Association. HDC Finland Coaches • Jyrki Rantala was the head coach of KOOVEE season 2017- 2018 and worked the team up to (2nd highest league) Jyrki has a long experience in coaching junior and senior teams. He has worked as a coach educator for Finninsh Ice Hockey Association. He brings to our HDC Finland coaching team world known Finnish education pedagogical approach to coaching. • After a long player career Petri Koskinen followed his passion in Ice Hockey and started coaching for Tappara junior teams and has been very succesfull. Petri has many certificates from coaching, body physics and nutrition. HDC Finland Coaches

• Pasi Kataja has coached Juniors (most traditional club in Finland) for the last six years very succesfully and was rewarded as the Ilves Coach Of The Year 2017-2018. Pasi is also the founder of Pyynikin Pantterit coaching organization for individual player skills development. Pasi is specialized in shooting and skating skills