Eero Elo

Eero Elo
Date of birth	April 26, 1990
place of birth	Rauma , Finland
size	192 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 81
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 5th round, 145th position Minnesota Wild
KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 7th round, 164th position HK Budiwelnik Kiev
Career stations
to 2012	Lukko Rauma
2012-2015	Ässät Pori
2015-2016	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
2016-2019	SCL Tigers
since 2019	Lukko Rauma

Eero Elo (born April 26, 1990 in Rauma ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Lukko Rauma in the Liiga since 2019 .

Career

Eero Elo began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Lukko Rauma , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the season 2008/09 when he came to three appearances in the relegation. In the following season , the winger was able to increase to eleven points scorer, including eight goals, in 22 games. Parallel to playing with Lukko, he was on loan from 2008 to 2010 for the Finnish U20 national team in the Mestis of the Finnish second division, on the ice and in the 2009/10 season for the second division KooKoo . For KooKoo he scored seven goals in ten games and gave five assists.

In the KHL Junior Draft 2010 Elo was selected in the seventh round as the 164th player from HK Budiwelnik Kiev. Two years earlier, he had already been selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2008 in the fifth round as a total of 145th player by the Minnesota Wild , but was not subsequently signed. In the 2010/11 season , the junior international was able to improve again and he scored 15 scorer points in 33 SM-liiga appearances for Lukko Rauma, including seven goals.

Elo (number 84; 2nd from right) in the SCL Tigers jersey (2017)

In December 2012 Eero Elo moved to Ässät Pori within the SM-liiga and won the Finnish championship title with his new team at the end of the season .

From September 2016 Elo was under contract with the SCL Tigers in the National League A and played for the Tigers until the end of the 2018/19 season. He then signed a two-year contract with his hometown club Lukko.

International

For Finland , Elo took part in the 2010 U20 World Youth Championship . During the tournament he scored two goals in six games and gave one assist.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Finnish champion with Ässät Pori

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Lukko	SM-liiga		19th	7th	3	10	6th		3	1	0	1	2
2009/10	KooKoo	Mestis		10	7th	5	12	0		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Lukko	SM-liiga		31	7th	8th	15th	14th		2	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Lukko	SM-liiga		40	2	5	7th	43		3	0	0	0	0
2012/13	Lukko	SM-liiga		14th	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Sports	Mestis		2	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ässät	SM-liiga		31	10	4th	14th	10		16	6th	2	8th	8th
2013/14	Ässät	SM-liiga		57	8th	6th	14th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ässät	SM-liiga		54	26th	12	38	30th		2	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg	KHL		56	18th	10	28	14th		6th	0	0	0	4th
2016/17	HK Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL		8th	1	2	3	4th		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

Commons : Eero Elo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eero Elo at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Zaugg: Eero Elo - good enough for the NLA - but also good enough for Langnau? In: watson.ch. September 27, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Eero Elo one of ten departures from the Tigers. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. October 9, 2019, accessed October 10, 2019 .