Antti Miettinen

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Antti Miettinen
Date of birth 3rd July 1980
place of birth Hattula , Finland
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2000 , 7th round, 224th position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
1998-2003 HPK Hämeenlinna
2003-2008 Dallas Stars
2008-2011 Minnesota Wild
2011 Ak Bars Kazan
2011-2013 Winnipeg Jets
2012 HPK Hämeenlinna
2013-2014 Friborg-Gottéron
2014-2015 Polar bears Berlin
2015-2016 HPK Hämeenlinna

Antti Markus Miettinen (born July 3, 1980 in Hattula ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach. He completed 563 games for the Dallas Stars , the Minnesota Wild and the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League and also made 293 appearances for his hometown club HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish Liiga . With the Finnish national team he won the bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics and bronze and silver at the 2006 and 2007 World Championships .

Since the end of his active career after the 2015/16 season, he has been working as an assistant coach at HPK Hämeenlinna.

Career

Antti Miettinen learned to play ice hockey at his home club HPK Hämeenlinna and went through all youth teams there. He soon gained the reputation of a dangerous right winger, which he proved in the various junior leagues of Finland. In the 1998/99 season he made his debut in Finland's elite league , the SM-liiga . During the same season, he continued to play for the HPK junior team and Forssan Palloseura from Finland's second division. The following year his career in the SM-liiga really got off to a good start - he scored three points in 39 games. Nevertheless, he continued to play for the juniors from HPK, where he was able to better prove his offensive skills. In the 2000/2001 season he was an integral part of the HPK professional team and scored 24 points in 55 games - his last appearances in the juniors were also successful (4 games, 3 goals, 10 assists). In the two following seasons he was able to celebrate his breakthrough in the SM-liiga, which ultimately also moved the management of the Dallas Stars to equip him with a contract after they had selected him in the NHL Entry Draft 2000 in the seventh round as 224th. In the 2002/03 season he scored 25 goals and 25 assists in 53 games and added another 10 points in 10 playoff games - for this performance he was appointed to the All-Star Team and got the Kultainen kypärä and the Lasse-Oksanen -Trophy awarded.

For the 2003/04 season Antti Miettinen then moved to the NHL to the Dallas Stars, but played mainly with their farm team in the AHL , the Utah Grizzlies . In 48 games for the Grizzlies, he had 30 points (23 assists, 7 goals) and was the fourth-best scorer in the team. He made his NHL debut on October 8th against the Mighty Ducks from Anaheim , his first NHL goal he scored in the next game on October 11th against the Nashville Predators .

In the 2004/05 season he played due to the lockout in the AHL for the Hamilton Bulldogs , which were the farm team of the stars at the time. In 35 games for the Bulldogs, he scored eight goals and 20 assists - missing much of the season with a shoulder injury. He completed his first full NHL season in 2005/06 with the Dallas Stars and was able to collect 32 scorer points in 79 games.

On July 3, 2008, Miettinen signed his three-year contract for $ 7 million with the Minnesota Wild . With the Wild he missed the playoffs in the following three years, but was personally able to stabilize his points yield around 40 scorer points. After his contract with the Wild, he was initially without a club, before he was committed in August 2011 by Ak Bars Kazan from the Continental Hockey League . For the Russians, he scored two goals and six assists in 20 games before his contract was terminated by mutual agreement in November 2011.

In December 2011, Miettinen signed a two-year, $ 3 million contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning . However, the Finn then went through the waiver list from which the Winnipeg Jets selected him.

After the 2012/13 season he left the Jets and was designed by Friborg-Gottéron from the National League A committed. For Friborg he scored 22 points scorer in 34 games this season, but received no new contract after the end of the season. In September 2014 he was signed by the Eisbären Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League , where he scored 29 points in 48 games during the season. He then returned to his hometown club HPK Hämeenlinna for a final season, where he ended his active career after the 2015/16 season and moved directly to the club's coaching staff as an assistant coach.

International

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Rental cars in the jersey of the Winnipeg Jets (2012)
Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 HPK SM-liiga 13 0 0 0 2 4th 0 0 0 0
1998/99 FPS Forssa I-divisioona 4th 3 1 4th 6th - - - - -
1999/00 HPK SM-liiga 39 2 1 3 8th 7th 1 0 1 0
2000/01 HPK SM-liiga 55 13 11 24 28 - - - - -
2001/02 HPK SM-liiga 56 19th 37 56 50 8th 2 4th 6th 8th
2002/03 HPK SM-liiga 53 25th 25th 50 54 10 1 7th 8th 29
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 16 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2003/04 Utah grizzlies AHL 48 7th 23 30th 20th - - - - -
2004/05 Hamilton Bulldogs AHL 35 8th 20th 28 21st 4th 1 1 2 6th
2005/06 Dallas Stars NHL 79 11 20th 31 46 5 0 1 1 8th
2006/07 Dallas Stars NHL 74 11 14th 25th 38 4th 1 1 2 2
2007/08 Dallas Stars NHL 69 15th 19th 34 34 15th 1 1 2 0
2008/09 Minnesota Wild NHL 82 15th 29 44 32 - - - - -
2009/10 Minnesota Wild NHL 79 20th 22nd 42 44 - - - - -
2010/11 Minnesota Wild NHL 73 16 19th 35 38 - - - - -
2011/12 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 20th 2 6th 8th 8th - - - - -
2011/12 Winnipeg Jets NHL 45 5 8th 13 0 - - - - -
2012/13 HPK SM-liiga 15th 4th 4th 8th 10 - - - - -
2012/13 Winnipeg Jets NHL 22nd 3 2 5 2 - - - - -
2013/14 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 34 7th 15th 22nd 8th - - - - -
2014/15 Polar bears Berlin DEL 48 11 18th 29 22nd 3 2 0 2 4th
2015/16 HPK Liiga 34 7th 11 18th 24 - - - - -
NHL overall 539 97 133 230 234 24 2 3 5 10

( 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

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wild sign free agent Miettinen. nhl.com, July 3, 2008, accessed December 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ eng.ak-bars.ru, Antti Miettinen signs with Ak Bars  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / eng.ak-bars.ru  
  3. ^ ESPN , Antti Miettinen, Lightning agree
  4. ^ TSN , Jets pluck Miettinen off Waivers from Lightning
  5. ^ Antti Miettinen to Freiburg. sport.ch.msn.com, July 22, 2013, accessed on August 14, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Jan Schröder: From the NHL to Berlin: Antti Miettinen wants to become a master. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 15, 2014, accessed September 26, 2014 .
  7. ↑ HPK: ssa yllätyssiirto penkin taakse: Miettisen hokkarit naulaan. jatkoaika.com, April 29, 2016, accessed May 6, 2016 (Finnish).
personal data
SURNAME Miettinen, Antti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miettinen, Antti Markus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hämeenlinna , Finland