Eerikki Koivu

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Eerikki Koivu ( born December 29, 1979 in Kokkola ) is a Norwegian- Finnish professional ice hockey player who at Lørenskog IK in the Norwegian GET - ligaen playing on the position of the defender since 2010.

Career

Koivu played during his junior time at Hermes Kokkola, the club of his birthplace. In the mid-1990s he changed in the youth department of discos Jyväskylä, which he reached in 1994 JYP Jyväskylä. There, the defender went through the B- and A- Juniors, with whom he celebrated winning the Finnish A- Junior Championship in 1997.

After his appointment as senior players, it left his hometown in 2000 Finns abroad. He spent a year at the ASG Angers in France's Ligue Magnus. After he was in 2001 for a year to discos Jyväskylä returned to the second-class Mestis, he ran to another year of Angers. As of 2003, two -year commitment followed in the Finnish clubs Hermes Kokkola and Hokki Kajaani in the Mestis. There his former club JYP was again aware of him, who signed him before the end of the 2004/05 season. Two more years Koivu played there in the SM- liiga. In 2007 he moved abroad again and switched to the Storhamar Dragons in the Norwegian GET - ligaen. With Storhamar he celebrated in the spring of 2008, winning the Norwegian Championship. After three years at the Dragons in 2010, he moved finally to league rivals Lørenskog IK.

Internationally

Koivu was named after his naturalization for the first time for the 2011 World Championships in Slovakia in the Norwegian national team.

Awards and achievements

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)