Mikko Koivu

Finland Mikko Koivu


Date of birth	March 12, 1983
place of birth	Turku , Finland
size	188 cm
Weight	91 kg

position	center
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 1st round, 6th position Minnesota Wild

Career stations

until 2004	TPS Turku
2004-2005	Houston Eros
since 2005	Minnesota Wild

Mikko Sakari Koivu (born March 12, 1983 in Turku ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has played for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since 2005 . The center acts as the captain of the team and holds several franchise records , including for most games, assists and scorer points. He became world champion with the Finnish national team in 2011 and won the silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics . Since 2007 he has been a partner in his home club TPS Turku .

Career

Mikko Koivu is the younger brother of the famous ice hockey player Saku Koivu . During the NHL Entry Draft 2001 it was the Minnesota Wild officials who selected him in the first round in sixth position. When he played his final season for TPS Turku in the 2003/04 season , he made 6 goals in 45 games and prepared 24. In the summer of 2004 he finally moved to North America in the American Hockey League to the Houston Eros , which act as the farm team of the Minnesota Wild. There he played 67 games and scored 20 goals and made 28 assists . For the 2005/06 season he was then included in the squad of the Minnesota Wild and completed a good rookie season. He and his brother Saku were appointed to the Finnish national team for the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin .

In the following years, the attacking player was able to continuously increase his points and thus became one of the top performers in the Wild team. His best season so far was the 2008/09 season , when he was able to score 67 points in 79 league games. On October 16, 2008 he also managed to set a new club record with four assists in one game. At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , the Finn was appointed the new team captain of the Wild and signed a contract extension for seven years in the summer of 2010 with a reported total salary of 47 million US dollars. In March 2014, Koivu scored his 438th scorer point in the Wild's jersey in a 6-0 win, making him the player with the highest points in franchise history . He also played the 744th game for Minnesota against the Florida Panthers in February 2016, overtaking Nick Schultz as the club's record player. This was followed by his 1,000th regular season game in the NHL in December 2019.

Achievements and Awards

2000 Finnish A junior runner-up with TPS Turku
2001 Finnish champion with TPS Turku
2002 Finnish A junior runner-up with TPS Turku

2004 Finnish runner-up with TPS Turku
2005 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
2012 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game (cancellation due to injury)

International

2000 gold medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2001 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
2001 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2002 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2004 2nd place at the World Cup of Hockey
2006 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

2006 bronze medal at the world championship
2007 silver medal at the world championship
2008 bronze medal at the world championship
2010 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
2011 gold medal at the world championship
2016 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1990/00	TPS Turku U20	A-Jun.-SM-liiga	30th	4th	8th	12	22nd	13	1	4th	5	8th
2000/01	TPS Turku U20	A-Jun.-SM-liiga	26th	9	36	45	26th	3	1	1	2	6th
2000/01	TPS Turku	SM-liiga	21st	0	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	TPS Turku	SM-liiga	48	4th	3	7th	34	8th	0	3	3	4th
2002/03	TPS Turku	SM-liiga	37	7th	13	20th	20th	7th	2	2	4th	6th
2003/04	TPS Turku	SM-liiga	45	6th	24	30th	36	13	1	7th	8th	8th
2004/05	Houston Eros	AHL	67	20th	28	48	47	5	1	0	1	2
2005/06	Minnesota Wild	NHL	64	6th	15th	21st	40	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Minnesota Wild	NHL	82	20th	34	54	58	5	1	0	1	4th
2007/08	Minnesota Wild	NHL	57	11	31	42	42	6th	4th	1	5	4th
2008/09	Minnesota Wild	NHL	79	20th	47	67	66	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Minnesota Wild	NHL	80	22nd	49	71	50	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Minnesota Wild	NHL	71	17th	45	62	50	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Minnesota Wild	NHL	55	12	32	44	28	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	TPS Turku	SM-liiga	10	5	5	10	16	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Minnesota Wild	NHL	48	11	26th	37	26th	5	0	0	0	8th
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL	65	11	43	54	24	13	1	6th	7th	10
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL	80	14th	34	48	38	10	1	3	4th	2
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL	82	17th	39	56	40	6th	3	2	5	2
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL	80	18th	40	58	34	5	1	1	2	0
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL	82	14th	31	45	46	5	0	4th	4th	2
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL	48	8th	21st	29	22nd	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL	55	4th	17th	21st	28	4th	0	0	0	6th
A-Jun.-SM-liiga total			58	13	45	58	60	16	2	5	7th	14th
SM-liiga total			161	22nd	46	68	108	28	3	12	15th	18th
NHL overall			1028	205	504	709	592	59	11	17th	28	38

International

Represented Finland at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2000	Finland	U18 World Cup		7th	0	4th	4th	8th
2001	Finland	U20 World Cup		7th	0	3	3	8th
2001	Finland	U18 World Cup		6th	2	3	5	6th
2002	Finland	U20 World Cup		7th	1	5	6th	4th
2004	Finland	World cup	2nd place	4th	0	1	1	2
2006	Finland	Olympia		8th	0	0	0	6th
2006	Finland	WM		9	2	2	4th	8th
2007	Finland	WM		9	2	2	4th	26th
2008	Finland	WM		9	4th	5	9	6th
2010	Finland	Olympia		6th	0	4th	4th	2
2011	Finland	WM		9	2	6th	8th	4th
2012	Finland	WM	4th Place	10	3	8th	11	4th
2016	Finland	WM		10	4th	6th	10	12
2016	Finland	World cup	8th place	3	0	0	0	0
Juniors overall				27	3	15th	18th	26th
Men overall				77	17th	34	51	70

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Mikko Koivu - collection of images, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
Mikko Koivu at eliteprospects.com (English)

Squad of the Minnesota Wild in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Koivu, Mikko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koivu, Mikko Sakari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Turku , Finland