Meeri Räisänen
| Meeri Räisänen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
December 2, 1989 Tampere, Finland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||
| Weight | 141 lb (64 kg; 10 st 1 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Catches | Left | ||
| SM team Former teams |
JYP Jyväskylä Jyväskylän Hockey Cats Ilves Espoo Blues Robert Morris Univ. D-Kiekossa SKIF Nizhni Novgorod | ||
| National team |
 Finland | ||
| Playing career | 2012–present | ||
|
Medal record | |||
Meeri Räisänen (born December 2, 1989) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender.
Playing career
International
Räisänen was selected for the Finland women's national ice hockey team in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She dressed in all six games, but did not play.[1]
As of 2014, Räisänen has also appeared for Finland at two IIHF Women's World Championships. Her first appearance came in 2012.[2][3][4]
Professional
She was selected by the Markham Thunder in the 2018 CWHL Draft,[5] but instead signed with the Connecticut Whale of the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) as a free agent.[6] In her debut for the Whale, she played across from US Olympian Nicole Hensley of the Buffalo Beauts, losing 4–0 on October 7, 2018.[7]
Career statistics
Through 2013–14 season
| Year | Team | Event | GP | W | L | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Finland | WW | 3 | 1 | 0 | 98 | 9 | 0 | 5.47 | .800 |
| 2013 | Finland | WW | 2 | 1 | 0 | 75 | 2 | 1 | 1.59 | .895 |
References
- ^ IIHF - Team Finland Stats - 2014 Olympics
- ^ IIHF - Team Finland Stats - 2011 World Championship
- ^ IIHF - Team Finland Stats - 2012 World Championship
- ^ IIHF - Team Finland Stats - 2013 World Championship
- ^ Earl Zukerman (27 August 2018). "McGill's Atkinson selected in CWHL Draft by Les Canadiennes". McGill Athletics. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Finnish Olympic Team Goaltender Meeri Räisänen Signs with the Whale". NWHL.zone. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ Dan Rice (7 October 2018). "Olympians Hensley and Räisänen Battle as Beauts Defeat Whale, 4-0". NWHL.zone. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
 | This biographical article relating to a Finnish ice hockey goaltender is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1989 births
- Sportspeople from Tampere
- Expatriate ice hockey people
- Finnish expatriates in Russia
- Finnish women's ice hockey players
- Female ice hockey goaltenders
- Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Finland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Finnish ice hockey goaltenders
- Finnish ice hockey goaltender stubs