Matias Loppi

Matias Loppi ( born March 22, 1980 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is under contract with SV Kaltern in the Italian Serie A2 since September 2012.

Career

Matias Loppi began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth of the HIFK Helsinki, for which he was active until 1996. He subsequently transferred to the junior level of local rivals Karhu -Kissat Helsinki, but he left after just one year. He then returned to HIFK for the first team, he made his debut in the SM- liiga in the 1998/99 season. The Brussels residents, the attacker but could not prevail, so that he mainly ran aground for their junior teams and by 2001 only six times in the highest Finnish ice hockey league was on the ice. For the 2001/02 season the links Sagittarius signed a contract with the first division club Jokerit Lappeenranta, for which he was a master in ten games. However, the majority of the playing time he spent at Haukat Järvenpää in the subprime Mestis.

In the summer of 2002 Loppi received a contract with the Swedish second division Piteå HC. This he left after only one year to play for the SV Kaltern in the Italian Serie A, where he also remained only one year. Then, the center returned to his Finnish homeland, where he scored 41 points scorer for the second division Kiekko -Vantaa in a total of 47 games. He was one of the Topscorern the league. He made ​​the Pelicans Lahti of the SM- liiga attention to himself, for which he played the following three years. The 2008/09 season he spent with his hometown club HIFK Helsinki, before he was hired for the next season of the Hamburg Freezers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

In the summer of 2010 he returned to Finland and was engaged by the Pelicans Lahti.