Karri Rämö
Karri Rämö ( born July 1, 1986 in Asikkala ) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who stands in July 2013 in the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League contract. Furthermore, since the beginning of the 2011/12 season Rämö acts as general manager of the Finnish Mestis clubs Peliitat Heinola.
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- 3.1 International
Career
Rämö played during his time at junior Kiekkoreipas, before moving to the Pelicans Lahti in summer 2003. For this he was from 2003 to 2005 in the SM- liiga active. At first, he was only the third goalkeeper behind Mikko Rämö and Carl Grahn, received in the 2004/05 season but the trunk space in front of Pasi Nurminen and Jaakko Suomalainen. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2004 in the sixth round as a total 191 players from the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. However, before this took him under contract, changed the keeper before the 2005/06 season in the SM- liiga to HPK Hämeenlinna. In Hämeenlinna Rämo acted behind Miika Wiikman again as a substitute, was with the team at the end of the season for the first time Finnish Champion. In the course of the season he was also in a lot of Haukat Järvenpää and three games for the Finnish U20 national team has been used in the second-rate Mestis.
In the summer of 2006 Rämö eventually moved to North America, having had contracted him the Lightning. The 2006/ 07 spent the Finn mainly at Lightning farm team, the Springfield Falcons in the American Hockey League. He brought it in tandem with Jonathan Boutin on 45 missions. In the course of the season Rämö but had also given his debut in the NHL for the Lightning. In the 2007 /08 season the Finn finally got a firm place in the NHL squad as a replacement of Johan Holmqvist. The 2008 /09 then divided up between missions in the AHL with the Norfolk Admirals and in the NHL. For the NHL Tampa squad had committed two new goalkeepers with Mike Smith and Olaf Kolzig, who were Rämö first pre- sets. Counter Kölzig to Rämö sat Although once through, but the trunk space filled Smith. In the AHL he shared performances with Mike McKenna and fellow Riku Helenius.
Since Rämö saw no future in the NHL after the 2008 /09 season, he moved in June 2009 to HK Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League, where he - in spite of a valid contract with the Lightning - a contract with a term of two years signed. In Omsk, the goalkeeper from the beginning represented to the full number 1 and completed in two years playing 44 of the possible 54 games. In June 2011, he extended his contract by two years. In the National Hockey League, the Personnel Rämö but remained an issue in transfer dealings. So his transfer rights were first issued on 17 August 2010 in exchange for the young Canadian goalkeeper Cédrick Desjardins to the Montreal Canadiens. This transferred selbige 12 January 2012 together with Michael Cammalleri and a fifth- round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 in exchange for Rene Bourque, Patrick Holland and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2013 to the Calgary Flames.
In July 2013 Rämö signed a two-year contract worth a total of 5.5 million U.S. dollars at the Calgary Flames.
Internationally
Rämö represented his native Finland for the first time at the U18 World Youth Championship in 2004. Doing so, he came as a substitute of Tuukka Rask just to use one. The Finns occupied at the end of the tournament in seventh place. In the U20 World Youth Championship 2006, he was again back-up of Rask and also played only one game. Nevertheless, he won the bronze medal.
In the senior Rämö belonged at the World Championships in 2008 and 2009 for the Finnish squad. At the World Championships 2008 he won a bronze medal, behind Niklas Bäckström and remained Petri Vehanen but einsatzlos. The following year he made his World Cup debut when he completed replacement of Pekka trough a game. Finland joined the world title fights from fifth place.
In addition, he was several times the Finnish team at the Euro Hockey Tour.
Awards and achievements
- 2006 Finnish Champion with HPK Hämeenlinna
- 2007 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2009 KHL goalie of the month October
- 2010 KHL All-Star Game
- 2010 KHL goalie of the month November
- 2011 KHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
Internationally
- 2006 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
- 2008 bronze medal at the World Championships
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Finland at:
- U18 Junior World Championship 2004
- U20 Junior World Cup 2006
- World Championship 2008
- World Cup 2009
( Key to the goalkeeper stats: GP or Sp = Total Games; W or W = Wins, L = Losses, or N, T or D = Draw or shootout defeat, min = minutes; SOG or ZAT = Shots on goal, GA or GT = Goals against; SO = shutouts, GAA or GTS = Gegentorschnitt; Sv % or SVS % = quota, EN = Empty Net Goal; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )