Janne Ojanen

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Janne Ojanen
Date of birth April 9, 1968
place of birth Tampere , Finland
size 189 cm
Weight 91 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1986 , 3rd round, 45th position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
until 1988 Tappara Tampere
1988-1989 Utica Devils
1989-1990 New Jersey Devils
1990-1992 Tappara Tampere
1992-1993 New Jersey Devils
1993-1996 Tappara Tampere
1996-1998 Malmö IF
1998-2010 Tappara Tampere

Janne Juhani Ojanen (born April 9, 1968 in Tampere ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach , who worked for Tappara Tampere in the SM-liiga and the New Jersey Devils in national hockey from 1985 to 2010 League has played.

Career

He began his professional career in 1985 at Tappara Tampere and was drawn in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils in the third round as 45th. Ojanen stayed in Finland for another two years before venturing to North America. Before that he won Olympic silver with the Finnish national team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary .

The 1988/89 season he spent mostly with the farm team of the Devils, the Utica Devils in the American Hockey League . He was only used three times in the NHL. The following season he played continuously with the New Jersey Devils in the NHL.

There followed two seasons in Finland, which he spent again with Tappara and only for the NHL playoffs of the 1991/92 season he returned to New Jersey. He started again the next season with a farm team, the Cincinnati Cyclones in the International Hockey League , but was then active 31 games for the Devils before he finally decided in 1993 to return to Europe.

At the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer , he won the bronze medal with the Finnish team.

He always spent his time in Finland at Tappara, interrupting it once for a playoff game in Switzerland with HC Lugano in 1995 and for two seasons from 1996 to 1998 in the Swedish Elitserien at Malmö IF .

In the Finnish league he was a player for Tappara Tampere all his life. From autumn 2000 until the end of his active career (2009/10) he was captain of the team. On November 28th, 2009 he took the lead in the eternal top scorer classification of the Finnish SM-liiga . Following the 2009/10 season , he ended his career. In his honor, Tappara Tampere no longer gives the shirt number 8. In the 2011/12 season , Ojanen worked as an assistant coach at his long-standing home club Tappara Tampere.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tapparan Janne Ojaselle historic line piste! In: liiga.fi. November 28, 2009, accessed October 27, 2017 (Finnish).

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personal data
SURNAME Ojanen, Janne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ojanen, Janne Juhani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampere , Finland