Jarkko Immonen (ice hockey player, 1982)

Jarkko Immonen
Date of birth	April 19, 1982
place of birth	Rantasalmi , Finland
size	183 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	center
number	# 26
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 8th round, 254th position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
1997-2000	SaPKo Savonlinna
2000-2001	TuTo Turku
2001-2002	Ässät Pori
2002-2005	JYP Jyväskylä
2005-2007	New York Rangers
2007-2009	JYP Jyväskylä
2009-2013	Ak Bars Kazan
2013-2015	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2015-2017	EV train
since 2017	JYP Jyväskylä

Jarkko Immonen (born April 19, 1982 in Rantasalmi ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with JYP Jyväskylä in the Liiga since May 2017 .

Career

Immonen began his career at SaPKo Savonlinna in 1997 in the second-rate Finnish I Divisioona , for which he stormed until 2000. With the establishment of Mestis in 2000 he switched to TuTo Turku , which he left in 2001 and signed a contract with Ässät Pori in the SM-liiga . There he stayed for one season and then went to league rivals JYP Jyväskylä . In 2002 he was drafted in the NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the eighth round in a total of 254th place.

The right-handed shooter made his debut in the National Hockey League in 2005 in the jersey of the New York Rangers . However, after he was mainly used in their farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack from the American Hockey League , he moved back to Finland for the 2007/08 season to JYP Jyväskylä, for whom he has played since then. In 2009 he won the Finnish championship with the team and moved to the continental hockey league for the reigning title holder Ak Bars Kazan in the summer break that followed . With this he also won the Gagarin Cup in the 2009/10 season .

In 2013 he left the club and moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod within the KHL . After two seasons he decided to leave the KHL and moved to the National League A and signed a two-year contract with EV Zug . In his 117 NLA appearances for the EVZ, he scored a total of 40 goals and 40 assists before he returned to Finland in May 2017 and was again signed by JYP.

International

For Finland , Immonen took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championship in 2000 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2002 . He and his team won the gold medal in the U18 area and the bronze medal in the U20 area. In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2009 , 2010 and 2011 World Championships and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . At the 2010 Winter Games, he won the bronze medal with Finland. In the senior category, he was particularly impressive at the 2011 World Cup, when he became world champion with Finland. As the top scorer of the world championship, he made a decisive contribution to this title. In addition, he was elected to the All-Star Team during the tournament. He also represented Finland in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 on the Euro Hockey Tour .

Achievements and Awards

• 1999 Finland's Under-17 Player of the Year
• 2008 All-Star- Team of the SM-liiga
• 2009 Finnish champion with JYP Jyväskylä
• 2010 Gagarin Cup win with Ak Bars Kazan

International

• 2000 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2002 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2010 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2011 gold medal at the world championship
• 2011 World Championship All-Star Team
• 2011 top scorer of the world championship
• 2011 World Cup top scorer
• 2014 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2014 silver medal at the world championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
KHL main round	6th	323	90	121	211	118
KHL playoffs	6th	73	15th	23	38	26th
NHL Regular Season	2	20th	3	5	8th	4th

(Status: end of the 2016/17 season)

Web links

• Jarkko Immonen at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Jarkko Immonen at eurohockey.com
• Jarkko Immonen at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jarkko Immonen leaves the EVZ. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. April 20, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .