Ari Haanpää

Ari Haanpää
Date of birth	November 29, 1965
place of birth	Nokia , Finland
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1984 , 4th round, 83rd position New York Islanders
Career stations
until 1982	Tappara Tampere
1982-1985	Ilves Tampere
1985-1987	New York Islanders
1987-1988	Springfield Indians
1988-1990	Lukko Rauma
1990-1993	JYP HT
1993-1996	Tappara Tampere
1996-1997	Viennese EV
1997-1998	GEC Nordhorn
1998-1999	Hockey Club de Reims
2001-2002	Kiekko-Ahma

Ari Eerik Haanpää (born November 29, 1965 in Nokia ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who played for the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League from 1981 to 2002 .

Career

Ari Haanpää began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of Tappara Tampere . From there, he moved in 1982 to the town neighbors Ilves Tampere | for the first team the winger from 1983 to 1985 in the SM-liiga , the highest Finnish league, was active and with whom he in the 1984/85 season champion was. During his time with Ilves Tampere he was also selected in the fourth round of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft as the 83rd player by the New York Islanders , for whom he was regularly used in the National Hockey League from 1985 to 1987 . Although he was also under contract with the Islanders in the 1987/88 season, he only played one game for the team from New York during this season, while spending the rest of the season with their farm team , the Springfield Indians , in the American Hockey League spent.

After he was no longer part of the permanent staff in the NHL, Haanpää returned to his Finnish homeland, where he hunted goals for Lukko Rauma from 1988 to 1990 and then for three years for JYP HT and his ex-club Tappara Tampere. With JYP he was runner- up in the 1991/92 season and failed with his team only in the playoff final at Jokerit Helsinki . From 1996 to 1999 the former junior national player was under contract with various clubs in other European countries and played for one year in succession for the Wiener EV in the Austrian ice hockey league , the GEC Nordhorn in the first division , the second highest German division at the time , as well as the Hockey Club de Reims in the French Ligue Magnus . After a two-year break, he played again in the 2001/02 season in three games for the Finnish fourth division club Kiekko-Ahma.

Since 2010 he has worked as a scout for the Calgary Flames from the National Hockey League.

International

For Finland Haanpää took part in the Junior European Championships in 1982 and 1983, as well as the Junior World Championships in 1984 and 1985 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1983 silver medal at the European Junior Championships
• 1984 silver medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1985 Finnish champion with Ilves Tampere
• 1991 SM-liiga All-Star Team
• 1992 Finnish runner-up with JYP HT

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	3	60	6th	11	17th	37
NHL playoffs	1	6th	0	0	0	10
SM liiga main round	10	358	160	118	278	563
SM liiga playoffs	7th	49	19th	12	31	36

Web links

• Ari Haanpää at hockeydb.com (English)
• Ari Haanpää at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Ari Haanpää at eliteprospects.com (English)