Raimo Summanen
Raimo Summanen ( born March 2, 1962 in Jyväskylä ) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active years from 1981 to 1995, among other things Reipas Lahti, Tampere Ilves, HPK Hämeenlinna, TPS Turku and Helsinki Jokerit in the SM - liiga and the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks played in the National Hockey League. Most recently, he coached the 2012 HK Avangard Omsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.
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Career as a player
Raimo Summanen began his career as a hockey player with Reipas Lahti, for whom he made his debut, was in the 1981/82 season in the SM- liiga, the top division in Finland. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 in the sixth round as the 125th overall player of the Edmonton Oilers. First, however, the attacker played two more years in Finland with Ilves Tampere, before he was towards the end of the 1983/84 season his debut in the National Hockey League for the Oilers. In his three years in Edmonton, he won the Stanley Cup with the team in 1987. Although the Oilers won this in 1984 and 1985, however, denied Summanen insufficient in two seasons games to be officially registered on the Stanley Cup. Towards the end of the 1986/87 season Summanen was delivered to the Vancouver Canucks, but where he could not prevail, so that he stood in the NHL in the one and a half years in Vancouver just 19 times on the ice.
In 1988 Summanen returned to his Finnish homeland, where he signed a contract with his former club Ilves Tampere, for which he was the next four seasons, interrupted by a year's activity in their league rivals HPK Hämeenlinna. In the 1992/93 season with TPS Turku Summanen was the first time Finnish Champion. He repeated the following season with Jokerit Helsinki this success. The 1993/94 season he finished, however, the SC Bern in the Swiss National League A, his only station in Europe, before 1995 TPS Turku ended his active career. For Summanen this was the end of the third title in Finland in a row and the second with Turku.
Internationally
For Finland Summanen participated in the Junior World Cup 1982, as well as the A- World Championships 1983, 1987, 1990, 1991 and 1995 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of Finland at the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984 and 1992 in Albertville.
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Career as a coach
After his playing career in 2001 Summanen head coach at Jokerit Helsinki, with whom he had become as a player masters. He repeated in the 2001/ 02 season this success. In addition, he was awarded the Kalevi Numminen - Trophy as the best coach of the SM- liiga. In 2003 Summanen finally took over the vacant post as coach of the Finnish national team, which he led to the finals of the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, where his team was defeated just Canada. Due to internal disputes with players and association officials, he was released at the tournament after just one year afterwards. His successor was calculated Erkka Westerlund, whom he had replaced in 2001 as a coach for Jokerit.