Marko Tuomainen
Marko Tuomainen ( born May 25, 1972 in Kuopio ) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player. During his career he played for the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, the EHC Biel and HC Val Pusteria.
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Career
Marko Tuomainen began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth of KalPa Kuopio, for his first team, he made his debut in the SM- liiga in the 1989/90 season. After another year in Finland, he played four years for the team of Clarkson University. During this period, the attacker in the NHL Entry Draft, was selected in the ninth round as the 205th overall player in 1992 by the Edmonton Oilers, for in the National Hockey League, he stood at the end of the 1994/95 season in four games on the ice, in where he remained point and impunity. In the following two seasons, the right-handed shooter ran on exclusively for their farm team of the American Hockey League, the Cape Breton Oilers and Hamilton Bulldogs.
In the summer of 1997 Tuomainen moved to HIFK Helsinki in SM- liiga, the with which he was first in the 1997/98 season in his career, Finnish Champion. On 20 June 1999 he was awarded a contract as a free agent with the Los Angeles Kings, for which he in the season 1999/2000 a total of 64 games in 18 scorer points, including nine goals scored. However, in the following season, the winger could no longer claim the NHL team the Kings and had the majority of the season for their AHL farm team, the Lowell Lock Monsters play. On 18 July 2001, the Finn signed as a free agent with the New York Islanders in the NHL, where he played but only once and otherwise exclusively belonged to the squad of their AHL Farteams Bridgeport Sound Tigers. With this he failed in the final of the Calder Cup to the Chicago Wolves.
From 2002 to 2004 Tuomainen played for the Espoo Blues in the SM- liiga, and then a year for the Lausanne HC in the Swiss National League A. It was followed by two years with the SCL Tigers in the NLA, as well as a short spell at EHC Biel in the National League B, for whom he played from 2007 and succeeded him in the season 2007/ 08, the rise in the NLA. While the former NHL player in the rise of the year was still a regular player, he graduated in the 2008 /09 season only four games for the Swiss and spent the rest of the season in the NLB at SC Langenthal. For this reason, he signed for the 2009/10 season at HC Val Pusteria from the Italian Serie A1. After a very good playoffs this season, he returned to Finland and even played two years in the second-rate Mestis for KooKoo and Kiekko - Vantaa. In the spring of 2012, he ended his career and then became an assistant coach at Kiekko - Vantaa.
Internationally
For Tuomainen Finland took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 1992, as well as the World Championships in 1998 and 2000 in part.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 AHL All- Star Classic
- 2006 Champions of the National League B with the EHC Biel
- 2008 champions of the National League B with the EHC Biel
- 2008 promotion to the National League A with the EHC Biel