Reijo Mikkolainen

Reijo Kalevi Mikkolainen ( born May 14, 1964 in Pirkkala ) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey player.

• 2.1 International

Career

Reijo Mikkolainen began his career as a hockey player in the junior department of Tappara Tampere, for the first team he was in the SM- liiga, the top Finnish league, active from 1983 to 1989. With the team he won the Finnish championship titles in 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1988. Following the 1988/89 season, the winger moved within the league to TPS Turku, with whom he was champion in 1990, 1991 and 1993 also. He also won the Hockey European Cup with TPS in 1993. The 1993/94 season he spent partly in TPS ' farm team Kiekko - 67 in the second class I- divisioona. He then played one and a half years for the SM - liiga participants Ilves Tampere, before he returned during the 1995/96 season to his former club Tappara Tampere. For the 1996/97 season the Finn joined the EC Peiting from the 1st League South, the then second highest German league on. He spent the following season also in Germany, but this time in the third-rate second league at TuS Geretsried. He then finished his career at the age of 34 years.

In 2005 Mikkolainen was honored with induction into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame.

Internationally

For Finland Mikkolainen took at junior level at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1982 and the U20 World Youth Championship in 1984 in part. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1987, 1989 and 1990 as well as at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988. In the U20 World Cup in 1984 and the Winter Olympics 1988, he won with his team the silver medal each.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

SM- liiga stats

Family

His great- grandfather Kalle Mikkolainen won at the Olympic Summer Games 1908 in London in gymnastics with the Finnish team the bronze medal.