Jokerit

Jokerit (Eng. The Joker, complete club name Helsingin Jokerit ry) is a Finnish professional ice hockey club based in Helsinki. The club was in 1967 from the Hockey Department of bankrupt sports club Töölön Vesa forth. Jokerit played from 1969-1987 and again since 1989 in the top Finnish league, today Liiga and won in that time six Finnish championships. From the season 2014/15 Change Jokerit was the first Finnish professional ice hockey club in the Continental Hockey League. Your home matches played in the team of over 13,000 -seat Hartwall Areena.

  • 3.1 Current squad of 2012/13 season
  • 3.2 Locked jersey numbers
  • 3.3 NHL players

History

The Hockey Division of amateur sports club Töölön Vesa was deeply in debt and was disbanded in 1967. Aimo Mäkinen took the opportunity and founded on the basis of existing structures, a semi-professional sports clubs, including the junior teams and the right to start in the second highest Finnish league, the Suomi- sarja.

Jokerit was officially founded on October 27, 1967 during a constituent meeting. The sole owner, Aimo Mäkinen, was also a board and CEO of the new club. The club logo, a zwinkernder Jester, emerged from jokers of various playing cards and was drawn by graphic designer Jorma Hinkka. As a venue, the Helsingin Jäähalli served.

From the first team of Töölön Vesa few players were transferred to the new association. Among these were Timo Turunen, who is still best points scorer in club history today. There were Pentti Hiiros and Timo Kyntölä, with whom he formed the so-called nallipyssyketju series until 1975 - this name is due to the rather small body size of the player ( Hiiros was 172 cm, the largest of the three players ) ago.

On June 28, 2013 were officially announced that both the stage ( Hartwall Areena ) and the club to the Russian-Finnish businessman Gennady Nikolayevich Timchenko and the Russo- Finnish Rotenberg family was sold. Along with this is done from the 2014/15 season of change in the Continental Hockey League.

Achievements

1st team

  • SM- sarja: 1x Finnish ice hockey champions: 1973
  • 5x Gold Medal: 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002
  • 6x Silver Medal: 1971, 1983, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2007
  • 1x Bronze Medal: 1998
  • 2x Gold Medal: 1995, 1996
  • 1x Bronze Medal: 1993

Junior team

  • SM- liiga championship: A-Juniors (under 20 ): Gold Medal: 1988, 1996, 1999, 2000
  • Silver Medal: four times
  • Gold Medal: 1976, 1999, 2003
  • Silver Medal: four times
  • Bronze Medal: six times
  • Gold Medal: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1997, 2000
  • Silver Medal: three times
  • Bronze Medal: four times

Player

Current squad of 2012/13 season

Locked jersey numbers

NHL players

The following NHL players started their career with Jokerit or playing in the course of her career for the club. The dates in parentheses indicate the time at Jokerit.

  • Finland Sean Bergheim (2001-2003, 2004)
  • Canada Brian Campbell ( 2004/ 05)
  • Valtteri Filppula of Finland (2003-2005)
  • Finland Sami Helenius (1992, 2003-2004, 2007-2009)
  • Finland Jari Kurri (1977-1980, 1994)
  • Finland Kari Lehtonen (2000-2003)
  • Finland Ville Leino (2007/ 08)
  • Finland Juha Lind (1993-1997, 1998/99, 2008-2010)
  • Finland Tomi Mäki (2001-2005)
  • Canada Glen Metropolit (2003-2005)
  • Finland Antti Niemi - Jussi (1996-2000, 2002-2003, since 2009)
  • Finland Ville Peltonen (2001-2003)
  • Finland Jani Rita (1998-2001, since 2006)
  • Jarkko Ruutu of Finland ( since 2011 )
  • Tuomo Ruutu of Finland (2000-2002)
  • Teemu Selanne of Finland (1988-1992, 1994)
  • United States Tim Stapleton (2006-2008)
  • Finland Esa Tikkanen (1999-2000)
  • Finland Antti Törmänen (1990-1995, 1996-1998, 2000-2002)
  • Ossi Väänänen Finland (1998-2000, 2004/ 05, since 2010)
  • Finland Petri Varis (1993-1997, 1999-2001, 2004-2009)

Trainer since 1968

  • Jorma Kyntölä 1968-1969
  • Aulis Hirvonen 1969-1970
  • Matti Lampainen 1970-1973, 1973-1974
  • Rauli Virtanen 1973
  • Boris Mayorov 1974-1976, 1990-1993
  • Jorma Borgström 1976-1977
  • Pentti Katainen 1977-1978
  • Timo Turunen 1978
  • Matti Väisänen 1978-1980, 1985-1987
  • Olli Hietanen 1980-1982
  • Reino Ruotsalainen 1982-1985
  • Henry Leppä 1987-1988
  • Kari Mäkinen 1988-1990
  • Alpo Suhonen 1993
  • Hannu Aravirta 1993-1996
  • Curt Lundmark 1996-1997, 1997-1998
  • Sakari Pietilä 1997
  • Hannu Kapanen 1998-1999
  • Timo Lahtinen 1999
  • Erkka Westerlund 1999-2001, 2010-2012
  • Raimo Summanen 2001-2003
  • Hannu Jortikka 2003-2005, 2009-2010
  • Waltteri Immonen 2005
  • Curt Lindström 2005-2006
  • Doug Shedden 2006-2008
  • Glen Hanlon 2008-2009
  • Hannu Aravirta 2009
  • Hannu Jortikka 2009-2010
  • Erkka Westerlund 2010-2012
  • Tomi Lämsä since 2012
FC Jokerit Gennady Timchenko 2001–02 SM-liiga season 1994–95 SM-liiga season 2004–05 SM-liiga season 2006–07 SM-liiga season 1997–98 SM-liiga season Madison (Wisconsin) Minneapolis Minnesota Ilari Filppula Riku Hahl Nichlas Hardt Erik Karlsson Juva Kiiminki Leominster Antti-Jussi Niemi Vaasa Eurajoki Joonas Rask Savonlinna HIFK KalPa SaiPa
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