Anssi Salmela

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FinlandFinland  Anssi Salmela Ice hockey player
Anssi Salmela
Date of birth August 13, 1984
place of birth Nokia , Finland
size 185 cm
Weight 87 kg
position defender
number # 25
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2003-2005 Tappara Tampere
2005-2007 Pelicans Lahti
2007-2008 Tappara Tampere
2008-2009 New Jersey Devils
2009-2010 Atlanta Thrashers
2010-2011 New Jersey Devils
2011-2013 HK Awangard Omsk
2013 MODO hockey
2013-2014 HV71
2014-2015 Färjestad BK
2015-2016 Brynäs IF
2016 Kunlun Red Star
2016-2017 Linköpings HC
2017-2018 Dinamo Riga
since 2018 EHC Biel

Anssi Salmela (born August 13, 1984 in Nokia ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with EHC Biel in the National League since June 2018 .

Career

Anssi Salmela began his career as an ice hockey player in his Finnish homeland at Tappara Tampere , for which he played in the SM-liiga from 2003 to 2005 . At the beginning of the 2005/06 season , the defender was given to their league rivals Pelicans Lahti , for whom he was active the following two seasons before he played again for Tampere in the 2007/08 season , with whom he won the bronze medal in that year SM-liiga won.

Anssi Salmela (left) in the New Jersey Devils jersey

Before the 2008/09 season Salmela received a one-year contract with the New Jersey Devils , for their NHL team and their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Lowell Devils . The defender made his debut in the National Hockey League for New Jersey on October 10, 2008 in the first game of the season in a 2-1 win over the New York Islanders .

On March 2, 2009 Salmela was transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for the Swede Niclas Haevelid , for whom he scored his first goal in the NHL on March 16, 2009 in his only second game for Atlanta. Salmela returned to the New Jersey Devils on February 4, 2010 when the Thrashers traded him along with Ilya Kowaltschuk for Johnny Oduya , Niclas Bergfors , Patrice Cormier and a draft pick for the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft .

On July 15, 2011 Salmela signed a two-year contract with HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League . After this contract expired, he moved within the KHL to HK Donbass Donetsk , but was dismissed without notice shortly before the start of the season in September 2013. At the end of the same month he received a short-term contract with MODO Hockey , for which he completed eight games before moving to HV71 . In the 2014/15 season , the Finn played for Färjestad BK before joining league rivals Brynäs IF in the summer of 2015 .

From Sweden it went on to China: Salmela started the 2016/17 season with Kunlun Red Star and was part of the first team of the Chinese club in its first KHL season . In November 2016 they separated "by mutual agreement". Then he was under contract with Linköpings HC in the Svenska Hockeyligan .

From September 2017 he was under contract with Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League and was the best defender in the team there before he was signed by EHC Biel in June 2018 .

International

For Finland Salmela took part in the 2004 Junior World Championship and the 2008 and 2009 A World Championship . In the first two tournaments he won the bronze medal with his team.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2003/04 Tappara SM-liiga 10 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 2
2004/05 Tappara SM-liiga 48 1 5 6th 49 8th 0 0 0 0
2005/06 Tappara SM-liiga 8th 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2005/06 Pelicans SM-liiga 48 8th 8th 16 59 - - - - -
2006/07 Pelicans SM-liiga 56 11 12 23 58 6th 1 1 2 4th
2007/08 Tappara SM-liiga 56 16 16 32 40 11 0 6th 6th 14th
2008/09 New Jersey Devils NHL 17th 0 3 3 6th - - - - -
2008/09 Lowell Devils AHL 38 8th 16 24 41 - - - - -
2008/09 Chicago Wolves AHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 9 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
2009/10 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 29 1 4th 5 22nd - - - - -
2009/10 New Jersey Devils NHL 9 1 2 3 0 - - - - -
2010/11 New Jersey Devils NHL 48 1 6th 7th 14th - - - - -
2010/11 Albany Devils AHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2011/12 HK Awangard Omsk KHL 22nd 6th 4th 10 14th 21st 1 3 4th 16
2012/13 HK Awangard Omsk KHL 37 2 12 14th 37 11 0 1 1 0
2013/14 MODO hockey SHL 8th 2 4th 6th 20th - - - - -
2013/14 HV71 SHL 36 7th 14th 21st 64 5 1 1 2 2
2014/15 Färjestad BK SHL 42 6th 17th 23 28 3 1 2 3 4th
2015/16 Brynäs IF SHL 24 4th 1 15th 47 3 0 1 1 4th
2016/17 Kunlun Red Star KHL 10 3 2 5 8th - - - - -
2016/17 Linköpings HC SHL 32 4th 14th 18th 28 6th 0 2 2 2
2017/18 Dinamo Riga KHL 33 5 12 17th 18th - - - - -
2018/19 EHC Biel NL 49 10 11 21st 28 12 0 5 5 6th
2019/20 EHC Biel NL
SM-liiga total 226 36 42 78 208 28 1 7th 8th 20th
NHL overall 112 4th 17th 21st 44 - - - - -
KHL total 102 16 30th 46 77 32 1 4th 5 16
SHL total 142 23 60 83 187 17th 2 6th 8th 12
KHL total 49 10 11 21st 28 12 0 5 5 6th

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Finland U20 World Cup 7th 1 2 3 6th
2008 Finland WM 8th 0 0 0 37
2009 Finland WM 7th 1 0 1 2
2011 Finland WM 9 1 2 3 4th
Juniors overall 7th 1 2 3 6th
Men overall 24 2 2 4th 43

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brodeur stops penalty shot, saves Devils in season opener. cbssportsline.com, October 10, 2008, accessed March 3, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Devils acquire veteran defender Haevelid. cbcsports.ca, March 2, 2009; accessed March 3, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Lehtonen saves career-high 49 shots in Thrashers' sixth straight win. cbssports.com, March 16, 2009, accessed March 18, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Thrashers ship Kovalchuk to Devils for players, 1st rounder. The Sports Network , February 4, 2010, accessed February 5, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Энлунд переезжает в Китай и другие трансферы 14-15 ноября . ( khl.ru [accessed November 15, 2016]).
  6. ↑ The EHC Biel signed Anssi Salmela. In: bielertagblatt.ch. June 6, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 .
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Squad of EHC Biel in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Salmela, Anssi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Nokia , Finland