HPK
- Finnish Champion 2006
- 2nd place IIHF European Champions Cup 2007
Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (short HPK ) is a Finnish sports club from Hämeenlinna, which was founded in 1929 and is especially known for its hockey department. This participates in the Liiga and won the Finnish Championship in 2006. The game operation of the first team was outsourced to the HPK Edustusjääkiekko Ry 1991.
- 5.1 Locked jersey numbers
- 5.2 Known former players 5.2.1 Active Players
- 5.2.2 Inactive Players
History
The HPK Hämeenlinna was founded in December 1929 as Hämeenlinna Jääpalloseura. A year later the present name for the club was registered. First, the association focused exclusively on Bandy, expanded its offerings but soon to pesäpallo and football. In 1936, the pesäpallo team HPK Finnish champion.
After the Second World War, the hockey section was founded, which began with a hobby team and 1948 rose to the regional league. In the 1950s sparked the Hockey Bandy - Sport from the most important sport of the club.
In addition to the Section Hockey existed a Department of hockey, the 1952 and 1953 Finnish Champion in 1951 at the club. In the 1970s and 1980s, the ice hockey team HPK was one of the dominant teams of the I- divisioona, the second division of Finland, but without achieving promotion to the first division, the SM- liiga today. Mid-1980s, the project was started ascent, culminating in 1988 in the championship of the Second Division and qualify for the top division. 1991 HPK occupied in the regular season and reached the fourth place in the play- offs for third place. Two years later, at the end of season 1992 /93 HPK reached the championship final of the Canada - Malja in which the team from Hämeenlinna with 1:3 failed to TPS Turku.
In de season 2005/ 06 the HPK finished in third place after the main round and penetrated into the play-off finals. In this he beat the team of porin Ässät 3-1. Thus, the HPK won the first Finnish ice hockey championship of Vereingsgeschichte and qualified for the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2007. In this tournament, the national champion team from Hämeenlinna won the silver medal.
In the 2009/10 season of HPK again won the runner-up title of the SM - liiga, after he was defeated in the final with 1:4 TPS Turku.
Achievements
- SM- liiga: Champion: 2006
- Runner-up: 1993, 2010
- 3rd place: 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007
- Runner-up: 2007
Statistics
Season statistics
Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, L = Loss, D = Draw, SNV = Wins after Overtime, NNV = Losses after Overtime, Pts = Points, GS = Goals Scored, GT = Goals against
Top scorer
Coaches and team captains
Player
Locked jersey numbers
- # 2 Eero Salisma
- # 13 Marko Palo
- # 17 Juha Hietanen ( shared with his son Juuso Hietanen )
- # 18 Hannu Savolainen
- # 24 Mika Lartama (re- released in 2006 )
Well-known former players
Active Players
- Sweden Oscar Ackeström
- Czech Republic Jaroslav Balaštík
- Canada Andy Chiodo
- Riku Hahl Finland
- Finland Jukka Hentunen
- Canada Josh Holden
- Finland Mikko Jokela
- Finland Niko Kapanen
- Canada Steve Kariya
- Rostislav Klesla Czech Republic
- Finland Tom Koivisto
- Czech Republic Tomáš Kucharčík
- Finland Antti Laaksonen
- Finland Teemu Lassila
- Finland Ville Leino
- Finland Jussi Makkonen
- Finland Antti Miettinen
- Finland Mikko Mäenpää
- Finland Toni Mäkiaho
- Czech Republic Zdeněk Nedvěd
- Finland Mika Noronen
- Slovakia Ján Pardavý
- Canada Éric Perrin
- Finland Antti Pihlström
- Finland Timo Pärssinen
- United States Brian Rafalski
- Finland Jani Rita
- Czech Republic Pavel Rosa
- Finland Karri Rämö
- Finland Tommi Santala
- Czech Republic Roman Šimíček
- Finland Eero Somervuori
- Latvia Jānis Sprukts
- Slovakia Martin Strbak
- Czech Republic Petr Tenkrat
- Finland Hannu Toivonen
- Finland Antti Virtanen
- Czech Republic Tomáš Vlasák
- Finland Jukka Voutilainen
- Finland Miika Wiikman
- Finland Petteri Wirtanen
Inactive players
- Canada Jim Bedard
- Russia Igor Boldin
- Finland Markku Hakulinen
- Finland Yrjö Hakulinen
- Finland Jani Hassinen
- Finland Mika Helkearo
- Finland Hannu Henriksson
- Finland Risto Jalo
- Czech Republic Tomáš Jelinek
- Finland Hannu Jortikka
- Finland Jouni Kalliokoski
- Czech Republic Tomáš Kapusta
- Finland Vesa Karjalainen
- Finland Teppo Kivelä
- Kazakhstan Igor Kuznetsov
- Finland Veli -Pekka Laitinen
- Finland Mika Lartama
- Finland Janne Laukkanen
- Finland Timo Lehkonen
- Finland Tapio Levo
- Finland Tero Lehterä
- Finland Kai Nurminen
- Finland Pasi Nurminen
- Finland Mikko Peltola
- Finland Pekka Peltola
- Canada Dan Ratushny
- Finland Jouni channel
- Canada Geoff Sanderson
- Finland Jarkko Savijoki
- Finland Teijo Savijoki
- Finland Jukka -Pekka Seppo
- Finland Ilkka Sinisalo
- Finland Ville Sirén
- Finland Mika Strömberg
- Finland Raimo Summanen
- Canada Rob Talla
- United States Billy Tibbetts
- Czech Republic Radek Toupal
- Finland Jarkko Varvio
- Canada Andrew Verner
- Finland Tony Virta
- Czech Republic Vladimír Vůjtek
- Finland Juha Ylönen
Known attack series
- Pietilä - Salminen -Tie
- Pärssinen - Kapanen - Hentunen
- Miettinen - Santala - Somervuori
Player of the Year
Since 1983 Player of the Year is annually elected by the fans of the club.
- Antti Miettinen 2002-2003
- 2003-2004 Tony Virta
- 2004-2005 Jukka Voutilainen
- 2005-2006 Jānis Sprukts
- 2006-2007 Toni Mäkiaho
- 2007-2008 Jari Sailio
- 2008-2009 Jussi Makkonen
- 2009-2010 Tuukka Mäkelä