Maria Saarni
 Maria Saarni 
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| Date of birth | September 8, 1977 |
| place of birth | Helsinki , Finland |
| size | 162 cm |
| Weight | 52 kg |
| position | striker |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| 1994-1998 | Kiekko-Espoo |
| 1998-2000 | Espoo Blues |
| 2000-2001 | JYP Jyväskylä |
| 2009-2011 | LoKV |
| 2016-2017 | Harjun Kiekko |
Maria Helena Saarni , b. Selin , (born September 8, 1977 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who was last active for Harjun Kiekko in the second-rate Naisten Mestis .
Career
Maria Saarni, née Selin, began her career at Karhu-Kissat before moving to Kiekko-Espoo in the 1990s and playing for Kiekko in Naisten SM-sarja . In 1996 she was nominated for the European Championship and won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team . Two years later, at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she won the Olympic bronze medal. In 1998, Kiekko-Espoo was renamed Espoo Blues.
Saarni won the Finnish championship with the Blues in 1999 and 2000 , as well as two other bronze medals at the 1999 and 2000 World Championships . After these successes she moved to the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats , for which she was active in the 2000/01 season in the SM-sarja. It was then inactive until 2009, before running for LoKV between 2009 and 2011 .
Her last position at first was the Harjun Kiekko club, founded in 2014 , for which she was active in the Naisten Mestis in the 2016/17 season .
Achievements and Awards
- 1996 bronze medal at the European Championships
- 1998 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
- 1999 Finnish champion with the Espoo Blues
- 1999 bronze medal at the world championship
- 2000 Finnish champion with the Espoo Blues
- 2000 bronze medal at the world championship
Career statistics
( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1 play-downs / relegation )
Club competitions
| Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 1994/95 | Kiekko-Espoo | SM-sarja | 20th | 9 | 3 | 12 | 48 | |||||||
| 1995/96 | Kiekko-Espoo | SM-sarja | 24 | 12 | 9 | 21st | 48 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4th | ||
| 1996/97 | Kiekko-Espoo | SM-sarja | 24 | 13 | 7th | 20th | 56 | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||
| 1997/98 | Kiekko-Espoo | SM-sarja | 23 | 16 | 11 | 27 | 24 | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1998/99 | blues | SM-sarja | 23 | 14th | 11 | 25th | 40 | 6th | 7th | 3 | 10 | 12 | ||
| 1999/00 | blues | SM-sarja | 26th | 21st | 11 | 32 | 26th | 6th | 4th | 7th | 11 | 4th | ||
| 2000/01 | JyHC | SM-sarja | 9 | 4th | 7th | 11 | 16 | 13 1 | 6th | 10 | 16 | 14th | ||
| 2009/10 | LoKV | SM-sarja | 28 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 40 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | ||
| 2010/11 | LoKV | SM-sarja | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14th | 15 1 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 10 | ||
| 2016/17 | Harjun Kiekko | Mestis | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 22nd | |||||||
| SM-Sarja overall | 186 | 97 | 70 | 167 | 312 | 53 | 31 | 37 | 68 | 54 | ||||
International
| year | team | event | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | +/- | |
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| 1996 | Finland | EM | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 1998 | Finland | Olympia | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | |
| 1999 | Finland | WM | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | |
| 2000 | Finland | WM | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -4 |
Web links
- Maria Saarni in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Maria Saarni at eliteprospects.com (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Saarni, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Selin, Maria Helena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki , Finland |