Eerikki Koivu

Eerikki Koivu
Date of birth	December 29, 1979
place of birth	Kokkola , Finland
size	190 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1993-1994	Jyväskylä discotheque
1994-2000	JYP Jyväskylä
2000-2001	ASG Angers
2001-2002	Jyväskylä discotheque
2002-2003	ASG Angers
2003-2004	Hermes Kokkola
2004-2005	Hokki Kajaani
2005-2007	JYP Jyväskylä
2007-2010	Storhamar Dragons
since 2010	Lørenskog IK

Eerikki Koivu (born December 29, 1979 in Kokkola ) is a Norwegian - Finnish ice hockey player who has been playing the position of defender at Lørenskog IK in the Norwegian GET-ligaen since 2010 .

Career

Koivu played for Hermes Kokkola , the club in his hometown , during his junior years . In the mid-1990s, he moved to the youth department of Diskos Jyväskylä , through which he came to JYP Jyväskylä in 1994 . There the defender went through the B and A juniors, with whom he was able to celebrate winning the Finnish A junior championship in 1997.

After being appointed senior player, the native of Finland moved abroad in 2000. He spent a year with ASG Angers in the French Ligue Magnus . After he returned to Diskos Jyväskylä in 2001 for a year in the second-class Mestis , he played for Angers for another year. From 2003, two one-year engagements followed at the Finnish clubs Hermes Kokkola and Hokki Kajaani in the Mestis. There his ex-club JYP became aware of him again, who signed him before the end of the 2004/05 season . Koivu played there in the SM-liiga for two more years . In 2007 he went abroad again and moved to the Storhamar Dragons in the Norwegian GET league . With Storhamar he celebrated winning the Norwegian championship in spring 2008 . After three years with the Dragons, he finally moved to league rivals Lørenskog IK in 2010 .

International

Koivu was appointed to the Norwegian national team for the first time after his naturalization for the 2011 World Cup in Slovakia .

Achievements and Awards

• 1997 Finnish A-Junior Champion with JYP Jyväskylä
• 2008 Norwegian champion with the Storhamar Dragons

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
SM liiga main round	3	102	1	7th	8th	155
SM liiga playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	2
GET ligaen main round	4th	140	17th	37	54	188
GET league playoffs	3	35	6th	2	8th	88

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Eerikki Koivu at eurohockey.com
• Eerikki Koivu at eliteprospects.com (English)