Jarno Kultanen

Jarno Kultanen ( born January 8, 1973 in Luumäki ) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player and current coach, who has played in its active period from 1991 to 2010 was for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. Since 2011 he is an assistant coach at KooKoo in the Mestis.

Career

Jarno Kultanen began his career as a hockey player at KooKoo, for the first team, he was active from 1991 to 1994 in the then second-rate I divisioona. Then the defender played for two years KalPa Kuopio in the SM- liiga, and four years for their league rival HIFK Helsinki, with whom he won the Finnish championship title in the 1997/98 season. In 2000 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the sixth round as a total of 174 players from the Boston Bruins, for whom he. In his rookie year, the 2000/01 season, in 62 games scoring two goals and eight assists were After playing well in the following season exclusively for Boston, but due to a knee injury just 38 games played, he entered the 2002/03 season at large part, for Boston's farm team Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League. For the NHL's Boston he was only two times on the ice.

After he had lost his place in the NHL, Kultanen returned to his former club HIFK Helsinki, for which he spent two years in the SM- liiga active. From 2005 to 2007, he was then at Mora IK in the Swedish Elitserien under contract. In Sweden, he was the team captain in the 2006/07 season. After a year as an assistant captain at Moras League rivals Södertälje SK Kultanen left his career at his hometown club KooKoo from the second division, the Mestis, bar. The 2008/09 season he finished in the meantime with the Espoo Blues in the SM- liiga. In the season 2010/11, the former NHL player served as head coach the U20 Junior his home club KooKoo. For the following season, he was promoted to assistant first-team coach with game operation in Mestis and assisted head coach there Ismo Lehkonen.

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