HIFK’s top signing grew up among NHL stars, with a celebrity father in Canada
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- Canadian center Jake Leschyshyn has joined HIFK as one of the club’s major signings for the SM-liiga season.
- Leschyshyn’s father played more than 1,000 NHL games, and Jake spent part of his childhood around the Ottawa Senators and their star players.
Jake Leschyshyn was about four years old when he first visited his father’s workplace. That workplace happened to be the Ottawa Senators’ NHL dressing room.
In early-2000s Ottawa, the young Leschyshyn moved around the locker room wide-eyed as he watched players who seemed enormous to him. Marian Hossa and Daniel Alfredsson were among the stars on the team at the time.
Now the Canadian has arrived at HIFK as the club’s new center and one of its top signings for the coming SM-liiga season. His background is firmly rooted in hockey: his father played more than 1,000 games in the NHL.
The move brings Leschyshyn into Finnish hockey with a family history shaped by the highest level of the sport, after he grew up close to the NHL world in Canada.
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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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