Alpo Suhonen

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FinlandFinland  Alpo Suhonen Ice hockey player
Alpo Suhonen
Date of birth June 17, 1948
place of birth Valkeakoski , Finland
position striker
Career stations
1962-1967 Karhut Pori
1967-1969 Porin Ässät
1969-1970 Jokerite
1970-1971 Porin Ässät
1971-1975 Forssan Palloseura

Alpo Suhonen (born June 17, 1948 in Valkeakoski , Finland ) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and former player .

Career

Alpo Suhonen played for FPS Forssa and Porin Ässät during his active career , but ended his playing career at the age of 27 and has worked as a coach ever since. At first he supervised FPS as head coach before he was employed by the Finnish Ice Hockey Federation from 1977 and in the following years worked as a coach for various junior national teams. From 1982 he was the head coach of the men's national team and looked after the team at the 1984 Olympic Games, among others. In 1986 he moved to Switzerland for the NBL club Zürcher SC , where he worked until 1988. After a short time with the Finnish first division club HPK, I made my first trip to North America. Suhonen took over the Moncton Hawks from the American Hockey League (AHL) as head coach during the 1988/89 season . Then he was an assistant to the coaching staff of the NHL club Winnipeg Jets , before he directed Jokerit in the Finnish first division in the 1993/94 season .

In 1995 and 1996 he was the coach of the EHC Kloten both Swiss champions . In March 1997, Suhonen was interim coach of the Chicago Wolves in the IHL until the end of the season . Another tenure as a coach at HPK in his Finnish homeland followed in the 1997/98 season . Between 1998 and 2000 he was an assistant coach at the NHL franchise Toronto Maple Leafs .

In May 2000, he became the first native European in more than 50 years to head a team in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Chicago Blackhawks . He had to resign from this coaching position in March 2001 due to heart problems. From January 2002 until the end of the 2002/03 season he was the head coach of the Finnish first division club HIFK .

After the dismissal of Canadian Alan Haworth , Suhonen was coached at SC Bern in November 2004 , and he then led his team to the semi-finals. Despite a safe first place in the qualification of the 2005/06 season, the team was later eliminated in the quarterfinals, whereupon Suhonen was dismissed. Between 2007 and 2009 he was head coach of Porin Ässät .

In the 2009/10 season he was the sports director of Kloten Flyers and left the club in August 2010 for personal reasons. In May 2011 Suhonen was introduced as the head coach of HC 05 Banská Bystrica from the Slovakian Extraliga , which he was in charge of in the 2011/12 season.

From June 2012 he acted as the sports director of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association and from May 2016 also took over the position of team boss of the national team . After the failure in the Olympic qualification, it was announced on October 7th that the team would initially be looked after by Roger Bader on an interim basis , while Suhonen was once again acting as sports director. After his contract with the ÖEHV expired, the Finn left the association in 2017.

Private

Suhonen is divorced and has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suhonen Is Hawks' Man. In: tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Alpo Suhonen was the European trainer pioneer in the NHL. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ An eventful coach history. In: www.kloteneranzeiger.ch. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ History - Chicago Wolves. In: Chicago Wolves. Retrieved May 26, 2016 (American English).
  5. ↑ Suhonen Takes Reins Of Struggling Blackhawks. In: philly archives. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Heart condition interrupts Suhonen's NHL career . In: www2.hs.fi. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ From Associated Press: Blackhawks Won't Bring Suhonen Back . In: Los Angeles Times . March 28, 2001, ISSN  0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed May 26, 2016]).
  8. ↑ View: Alpo Suhonen new SCB trainer - view. In: www.blick.ch. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  9. ^ The flying Finns of SC Bern. In: tagesanzeiger.ch/. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Alpo Suhonen new Head of Sports at Flyers. In: az Aargauer Zeitung. Retrieved May 26, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Benjamin Muschg: Kloten: Uprising against Bircher, resignation of Suhonen . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( bazonline.ch [accessed on May 26, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Austrian Ice Hockey Association: Suhonen is the new team boss. In: www.eishockey.at. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 .
  13. ^ National ice hockey team: Alpo Suhonen's era of team bosses ended. In: derStandard.at. October 7, 2016, accessed December 8, 2017 .
  14. ↑ http://www.eishockey.at/de/red/news/oeehv-news/2017/haben-sportdirektor-alpo-suhonen/
personal data
SURNAME Suhonen, Alpo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Valkeakoski