Erkki Rajamäki

Erkki Rajamäki
Date of birth	October 30, 1978
place of birth	Vantaa , Finland
size	187 cm
Weight	94 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1999 , 8th round, 216th position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
1994-1997	Kiekko-Vantaa
1997-1999	Helsingfors IFK
1999-2000	Colgate University
2000	Newcastle Jesters
2000-2001	Helsingfors IFK
2001-2003	HPK Hämeenlinna
2003-2004	Ilves Tampere
2004-2005	Worcester IceCats
2005-2010	Espoo Blues
2011–2012	Helsingfors IFK
2012-2013	Ilves Tampere

Erkki Rajamäki (born October 30, 1978 in Vantaa ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who was last under contract with Ilves Tampere in the SM-liiga .

Career

Erkki Rajamäki began his career as an ice hockey player with Kiekko-Vantaa , in whose youth teams he was active from 1994 to 1998. He then moved to Helsingfors IFK , for which he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the 1998/99 season , when he remained pointless in 14 games and received two penalty minutes. He was then selected in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft in the eighth round as a total of 216 players from the Tampa Bay Lightning , for which he however never played. After a year in the team at Colgate University , the Finn returned to Europe, where he played for his former club from Helsinki in the 2000/01 season. He was also this season for FPS Forssa from the Mestis and the Newcastle Jesters from the British Ice Hockey Superleague on the ice.

Then Rajamäki played in the SM-liiga for two years for HPK Hämeenlinna and one season for Ilves Tampere . For the 2004/05 season the striker went to North America for a second time, where he was active in the American Hockey League for the Worcester IceCats . After he began the following season with the Peoria Rivermen from the AHL and the Utah Grizzlies from the ECHL , he returned to Finland, where he was under contract with the Espoo Blues from 2005 to 2010 . With Espoo Rajamäki reached the championship finals of the SM-liiga in the 2007/08 season , in which he lost with his team against Kärpät Oulu .

After he suspended the game operation during the 2010/11 season , he joined his ex-club, the reigning Finnish champions Helsingfors IFK, for the following season . In October 2012 he moved to Ilves Tampere within the SM-liiga .

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Finnish runner-up with the Espoo Blues

Web links

• Erkki Rajamäki at hockeydb.com (English)
• Erkki Rajamäki at eurohockey.com
• Erkki Rajamäki at eliteprospects.com (English)