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Originally Posted by SirPena
Why are you actually blaming the federation for this mess if this is how you think it went? I agree with you for the most part though. The way I see it is that Marjamäki will be the next head coach and it was decided much earlier. However they didn't want to go to Sochi with such a young coach. So they are giving Marjamäki the "Jalonen treatment" with only exception that they didn't come public this time with the fact that after one year Marjamäki takes over because of the bad reception it got last time. After this decision Westerlund was the only Finnish "high-caliber" coach who was ready to agree for a 1-year gig job.
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Bad reception last time perhaps had more to do with Shedden. Also, contrary to "last time", seems like Westerlund has a real option to do a 2nd year, maybe depending on how ready Marjamäki feels like.