Jari Torkki
Jari Kaarlo Torkki ( born August 11, 1965 in Rauma ) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, among others, for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League and the Star Bulls Rosenheim in its active from 1981 to 2002. His younger brother Sami was also a professional hockey player.
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Career
Jari Torkki began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of Lukko Rauma, for the first team, he made his debut in the SM- liiga in the 1981/82 season. In his only use point and he remained unpunished. In the following years he was a regular for Lukko, the following year he reached the direct re-emergence of the second-rate I divisioona after relegation in 1983. In the 1987/88 season the winger runner with Lukko was behind Tappara Tampere.
Following the Olympic Games in Calgary Torkki was ordered by the Chicago Blackhawks to North America. This had already chosen him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the sixth round as a total of 115 players. In the 1988/89 season the Finn came to four inserts for Chicago in the National Hockey League, where he scored a goal. He spent the entire rest of the season, however, at their farm team, the Saginaw Hawks in the International Hockey League. In the following season he was only in the IHL on the ice, but this time for the Indianapolis Ice, with whom he won the Turner Cup. For this success he added, with a total of 61 points scorer, 30 goals in 77 games.
From 1990 to 1996 Torkki again played for his hometown club Lukko Rauma in the SM- liiga. He then completed two seasons with the Star Bulls Rosenheim in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Finally, the former NHL player made his career in unterklassigen European leagues finish and played from 1998 to 2001 for the HC Merano and the HC Milan in the Italian Serie A1. After he started the season 2001 /02 in Merano, he finished this at the Bracknell Bees in the British Ice Hockey Superleague. He then finished his career at the age of 36 years.
Internationally
For Finland Torkki took at junior level at the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1982 and 1983, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 1984 and 1985 in part. In the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1983 and the U20 World Youth Championship in 1984 with his team he won the silver medal in each case. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the 1987 World Championships and at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988. At the Olympic Games, where Finland finished second behind the Soviet Union, the winger scored a goal in four games.