Antti Pihlström

Antti Pihlström
Date of birth	October 22, 1984
place of birth	Vantaa , Finland
size	180 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2002	Jokerit Helsinki
2002-2005	Espoo Blues
2005-2006	SaiPa Lappeenranta
2006-2007	HPK Hämeenlinna
2007-2009	Nashville Predators
2009-2010	Färjestad BK
2010-2011	JYP Jyväskylä
2011-2015	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2015-2016	HK CSKA Moscow
2016	Friborg-Gottéron
since 2016	Jokerit Helsinki

Antti Sakari Pihlström (born October 22, 1984 in Vantaa ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Jokerit Helsinki in the Continental Hockey League since October 2016 .

Career

Antti Pihlström began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of Jokerit Helsinki , where he was active until 2002. He then moved to the A-Juniors of the Espoo Blues , for whose professional team he played in the SM-liiga from 2003 to 2005 . He then stood on the ice for one season each for their league rivals SaiPa Lappeenranta and HPK Hämeenlinna . After four years in Finland's highest ice hockey league, Pihlström was signed to the Nashville Predators as a free agent on June 1, 2007 .

In his first season in North America, the attacker scored 45 points in 78 games, including 27 goals, for Nashville's farm team , the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League . He also made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Predators. After Pihlström began the 2008/09 season in the AHL, he was ordered into the NHL team Nashville during the season and scored two goals and five assists in 53 games. For the 2009/10 season , the Finn moved to the reigning Swedish champions Färjestad BK from the Elitserien . In January 2010 he returned to his Finnish homeland and joined JYP Jyväskylä from the SM-liiga, for which he has played since then. In November 2011 he was obliged by Salawat Julajew Ufa from the Continental Hockey League and was always one of the most consistent point collectors.

In September 2015 he took part in the Columbus Blue Jackets training camp , but received no contract and returned to the KHL in October, this time to HK CSKA Moscow . In September 2016 he signed a monthly contract with Friborg-Gottéron from the National League A (NLA) and moved to Jokerit Helsinki in the Continental Hockey League after it ran out .

International

With the Finnish national team Pihlström took part in the ice hockey world championship in 2008 and was the top scorer in his country with five goals in nine games. He also contributed two assists to achieve third place. At the 2011 World Cup he was world champion with Finland. At the 2014 Olympic Games, he won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2011 gold medal at the world championship
• 2014 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2016 silver medal at the world championship

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL: Regular season	2	54	2	5	7th	10
NHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL: Regular season	2	93	35	22nd	57	72
AHL: playoffs	1	6th	1	0	1	8th
KHL: main round	8th	324	64	52	116	134
KHL: playoffs	8th	75	16	5	21st	42

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

Commons : Antti Pihlström  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Antti Pihlström at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Antti Pihlström at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Antti Pihlström at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cat Silverman: Antti Pihlström Inks With CSKA Moscow - TSS. (No longer available online.) In: todaysslapshot.com. October 7, 2015, archived from the original on September 14, 2016 ; accessed on November 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Antti Pihlström (FIN) for one month in Friborg | HC Friborg-Gottéron. (No longer available online.) In: www.gotteron.ch. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ sda / rek: Pihlström leaves Freiburg. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). October 10, 2016, accessed October 11, 2016 .