Pentti Matikainen

Pentti Matikainen Teuvo Pellervo ( born October 5, 1950 in Joensuu ) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player, coach and functionary.

  • 2.1 As a coach

Career

As a player

Matikainen played from the 1975/76 season for Jukurit Mikkeli in the then second highest Finnish ice hockey league, the first division. This season he scored in 36 games and collected 44 points scorer 51 penalty minutes. The following year, the striker with 42 points was also impressive. In the summer of 1978 he signed a contract with the Premier League rivals Jokerit Lappeenranta, for which he was active until 1980. In Lappeenranta he was among the team 's best internal attackers. His most successful season was the season 1979/80, as it was used in 36 matches and thereby was able to score 45 times. For the 1980/81 season he moved within the league to Jokipojat Joensuu, went there but only once on the ice and ended his career connect.

As a coach and manager

As early as the autumn of 1981, a few months after the end of his active career Hockey, Matikainen first worked as a coach at the former Finnish second division club Pallo Saimaan. For the club, he was already active as a player 1977-1980. At the end of the 1983/84 season he was honored as best coach of the SM- liiga. In 1987 he undertook the management of Finland's showpiece club HIFK Helsinki as head coach, he has coached until 1990. Furthermore, he stood in 1987 as coach of the Finnish national team behind the band, with which he a year later won the silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary. Another success with Team Finland was the second place at the World Championship in 1992 in Czechoslovakia.

According to a seventh place finish at the 1993 World Championships Matikainen was dismissed. This placement was the worst of a Finnish national ice hockey team since 1983. He was eventually replaced by Curt Lindström. For the season 1996/97 he moved to the Frankfurt Lions in the German Hockey League. There his team lost in 38 games 19 times and was thus in the lower half of the table. Matikainen, which therefore could not meet the expectations, was then released from his service as head coach of the Lions. His successor was Peter Obresa. In 2001 he returned to HIFK Helsinki back to where he held the post of Manger henceforth. This activity he held until February 2008.

Awards and achievements

As a coach

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