Janne Pesonen Fact of the Week

It is known that the NHL is taking several efforts to increase scoring to make the game more exciting. This year the two biggest steps they had to increase the AGG (average goals per game) were decreasing the size of goalie equipment and bringing Janne Pesonen to the NHL

Janne Pesonen Picture of the Week

First he rocked the world (at hockey worlds) and now he is going to rock pittsburgh

Janne Shirt site...get them while they are hot!!

We had some requests about Janne shirts, I finally found some at link below. This seems like a nice site for karpat hockey collectables. So check it out.

http://www.handsup.com/skriptit/karpatshop/

Big news of the day...or not

The big news today is that Sidney Crosby turned 21...

Big deal, Janne has been 21 for almost 6 years now, and i bet he drank a whole lot more than Sid is going to tonight

Janne Pesonen #20 Karpat

Here you go Hockey fans, stay tune as you get alittle taste of the Finnish cult hero himself. Notice the quick hands. GET USE TO IT!

Saves on Billboards space.....

Seriously, does Nascar come to mind? Does anyone know how advertising ties into either into the team or a players personal contract? Here Janne is looking alittle Tony Stewartish.

More No's?!?!?! and Some notes about Janne

Seriously...a quick message to those 36 people who said no about janne being jesus...



Ok, i really hope this clears up any confusion that people might have.

Also there have been some interesting comments/corrections to our message boards so rather then have people go digging around for them i was gonna post them here.

In Response to the post Janne's Trophy Case Antti informs us:

He won the Matti Keinonen award with +- 39.
There's the source:
http://www.sm-liiga.fi/tilastot.html?b=rs&a=s&s=07-08&t=k

In response to the post Is Janne NHL Ready? André informs us:

The SM-Liiga rinks are about as small as the NHL ones. Point 1 there shouldn't be a problem.

In response to the post No??? WTF and Janne Watch 2008 nu informs us:

'Pelimies' apparently means 'player' in Finnish, "which can mean 'sports player' but is usually 'the other kind of "player"..."

Actual quote from a Finnish person:
OMG, that song cracks me up! The lyrics are so cheesy! Trust me, you're not missing much.

The gist: "I'm a tough player [in every sense of the word], gonna score tonight [in every sense of the word]".

And I do believe "tana iltana ei tuu pakejaa" is something like "not getting dumped tonight!"

Na na NA na na na na na.......

Also I found out an interesting fact today. Janne is often seen wearing a golden helmet when playing hockey (as seen below)


Apparently this is not just Janne being cocky, whenever you when the points title in SM-Liiga, this is the award and you get to wear it all year... Nice way to put a big target on the best players head.

Update from Kevin:

Kultainen kypärä ("the Golden Helmet") is an ice hockey award given to the best player in the Finnish SM-liiga. It is the most appreciated of the awards, as it is voted for by the players. It has been awarded since 1987.

Also remember about janne watch 2008, so keep your eyes open and don't forget to vote YES to proposition 20 (Is Janne Jesus)

Janne Pesonen fact of the week

Janne already built the new penguins arena, but tore it down because he didn't want to take jobs away from Pittsburghers

Could this be the house that Janne built ?

The big day is August 14th for Janne and the Pens new arena. I'm hearing from a unreliable source the Pens are flying Janne in to open the ground breaking ceremonies. They are pushing for the 2010-2011 season.

Janne's Trophy Case

By now we all know the Jannster was SM-Liiga's rookie of the year in the 2003/2004 season. Here are the rest of the hardware in his case.

Janne won the Jari Kurri Trophy (Best player in SM-Liiga playoffs) in the 2006/2007 season. This past season(2007/2008) Janne cleaned house by winning these 3 awards.
1. Aarne Honkavaara Trophy(most goals in the regular season) 34 goals.
2. Veli-Pekka Ketola Trophy(most points in the regular season) 78 pts.
3. Matti Keinonen Trophy(+39)A big Pittsburgh thanks goes out to Antti for the info on the Janne plus/minus Trophy

This might make for some exciting moments if the whirling dervish makes the team and flanks "THE KID".