Ilkka Heikkinen

Ilkka Heikkinen ( born November 13, 1984 in Rauma ) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is under contract with HC Lugano of the National League A since April 2012.

Career

Ilkka Heikkinen began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of Lukko Rauma, for the first team to 2007 he was active from 2003 in the SM- liiga. Before that, he came as Players out on loan for Uudenkaupungin Jää - Kotkat in the 2002/03 season in the second-rate Mestis to 18 sessions, in which he scored two goals and had three assists. Also in the 2003/04 season played the back parallel to the game Operation with Lukko in the Mestis for TuTo Hockey and the Finnish U20 national team.

From 2007 to 2009 Heikkinen stood for the HIFK Helsinki of the SM - liiga in on the ice. In the capital club, he was able to develop continuously and was in the 2007/08 season with 26 assists in the main round of the best assist provider among the defenders of the highest Finnish league. Then were attentive to him, the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. For this he ran in the season 2009/10 in seven games in which he remained point - and unpunished. The entire rest of the game time spent by the Finnish national team at their farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League, for whom he scored 38 points scorer in 72 games.

For the season 2010/11 Heikkinen was obliged by HK Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. A year later he returned to Sweden and was taken from newly promoted Växjö Lakers Hockey under contract. In the 2011/12 season with 18 goals, he was the most successful defender in the Swedish Elitserien. Heikkinen signed in the spring of 2012 a two -year contract with HC Lugano and from then plays in the Swiss National League A.

Internationally

For Finland, Heikkinen took in 2008 and 2012 at the Euro Hockey Tour in part. He scored one assist in eight games and received four penalty minutes.

Awards and achievements

• 2008 Most assists all defenders of the SM- liiga

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )