“Hugo gives me a lot of positive energy for the playoffs”

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It’s been an exciting few days for Biel’s star keeper. On the one hand, the Finnish Olympic champion and world champion is currently playing his first playoffs in Switzerland. In the hot derby quarterfinals against SCB. And then there are the big private emotions, because Harri Säteri (33) became a father for the second time in this hot phase. Hugo was born shortly after 05:00 on Saturday morning. His two-year-old daughter Herta has a brother.

“These are great days privately and at the same time great hockey days – it’s a unique time in my life,” says Säteri beaming. He was absent from game 3 on Saturday and stayed in the hospital with his wife Henrika and Hugo. “It was long agreed that I would succeed if the date of birth fell on a competition day,” explains Säteri.

Watched game 3 in the hospital with Hugo

It’s been a bit hectic the past few days, “but everything went well and feels good. A new chapter in my life is starting,” says the Finn expectantly, adding: “I know the timing wasn’t quite right. But the birth of Hugo will give me a lot of positive energy for everything that follows in the playoffs.”

Säteri watched the game on Saturday, which was lost 3:5 in Biel, in hospital, with Hugo by his side. Who therefore already noticed on the day of his birth what happens in his father’s daily life. Even if he wasn’t particularly interested in it.

‘We have to press the reset button’

The fact that Biel then lost to Bern for the second time after Säteri’s return between the posts (2:3) and the opponent pulled the momentum to his side, should not dampen his good mood. When the former NHL goalkeeper comes out of the locker room on Tuesday night, he has already put that behind him and says: “We have to forget the first four games and hit the reset button. Bern learned from the first two games. Now it’s our turn, we have to do better.”

It is clear that Säteri will be one of the main characters in the crucial phase of the series. At home in Grenchen SO he can recharge his batteries. Henrika has since returned from the hospital and Hugo has moved in.

Source : Blick