Esa Tikkanen
Date of birth | January 25, 1965 |
place of birth | Helsinki , Finland |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 95 kg |
position | Left wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1983 , 4th lap, 80th position Edmonton Oilers |
Career stations | |
until 1981 | HJK Helsinki |
1981-1982 | Regina Blues |
1982-1985 | HIFK Helsinki |
1985-1993 | Edmonton Oilers |
1993-1994 | New York Rangers |
1994-1995 | HIFK Helsinki St. Louis Blues |
1995 | New Jersey Devils |
1995-1997 | Vancouver Canucks |
1997 | New York Rangers |
1997-1998 | Florida panthers |
1998 | Washington Capitals |
1998-1999 | New York Rangers |
1999-2000 | Jokerit Helsinki |
2000-2001 | Mosquitoes eat |
2004-2005 | Anyang Halla Winia |
Esa Kalervo Tikkanen (born January 25, 1965 in Helsinki ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and coach who played 1063 games for the Edmonton Oilers , New York Rangers , St. Louis Blues , New in the course of his active career between 1985 and 2001 Jersey Devils , Vancouver Canucks , Florida Panthers and Washington Capitals played in the National Hockey League on the left winger position . During his 14 seasons in the NHL, Tikkanen won the Stanley Cup five times - between 1985 and 1990 four times with the Edmonton Oilers and in 1994 with the New York Rangers. In addition, as a long-time member of the Finnish national team, he won numerous medals at international tournaments.
Career
After successfully participating in the U20 Junior World Championship in 1983 , Tikkanen, who had also played temporarily as a junior in Canada, was drawn by the Edmonton Oilers at the 1983 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round as 80th. The jump from the Finnish league of HIFK Helsinki to the NHL, however, he succeeded in the spring of 1985, when he was called up during the playoffs by the Oilers and immediately won his first Stanley Cup with them in the same season . In a team with Wayne Gretzky , Mark Messier and his compatriot Jari Kurri , he was able to repeat this success in 1987 and 1988 . At Rendez-vous '87 he was a member of the NHL team. After Gretzky's departure, Tikkanen helped show in the 1989/90 season that the Oilers could win the title even without their big star. In the early 1990s, Tikkanen, who regularly scored between 60 and 80 scorer points per season in the 1980s , could no longer achieve these values and so the Oilers separated from him towards the end of the 1992/93 season .
He moved to the New York Rangers , with whom he captured his fifth Stanley Cup in the 1993/94 season . Due to the strike, the 1994/95 season started much later and Tikkanen played again for his home club HIFK Helsinki until the start of the season. In the NHL he then played for the St. Louis Blues . From then on, his NHL career was marked by changes. Shortly after the start of the 1995/96 season , the Blues gave him to the New Jersey Devils , from where he moved to the Vancouver Canucks after only nine games . At the end of the following season he returned to the New York Rangers. After good playoffs in New York, in which he scored nine goals in 15 games, his journey continued to the Florida Panthers , who soon gave him over to the Washington Capitals . His last station in the NHL were again the New York Rangers, for which he completed 33 games in the 1998/99 season .
In autumn 1999 he returned to Europe. After a season at Jokerit Helsinki in his Finnish homeland and another season in the German ice hockey league at Moskitos Essen , he ended his active career. In the 2004/05 season Tikkanen served the team Anyang Halla Winia from South Korea as both player and coach; the following season he was appointed to coach the Frisk Tigers from Asker in the Norwegian league. After a break of several years, he briefly acted as coach of Jokipojat from Mestis in Finland in the 2010/11 season .
International
With the Finnish national team , Tikkanen took part in five world championships . He was also a participant in the Canada Cups in 1987 and 1991 . At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Japan , he won the bronze medal.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1980/81 | HJK Helsinki U20 | A-Jun.-SM-liiga | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1981/82 | Regina Blues | SJHL | 59 | 38 | 37 | 75 | 216 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1981/82 | Regina Pats | WHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1982/83 | HIFK Helsinki U20 | A-Jun.-SM-liiga | 30th | 34 | 31 | 65 | 104 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 7th | 10 | ||
1982/83 | HIFK Helsinki | SM-liiga | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1983/84 | HIFK Helsinki U20 | A-Jun.-SM-liiga | 6th | 5 | 9 | 14th | 13 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 7th | 8th | ||
1983/84 | HIFK Helsinki | SM-liiga | 36 | 19th | 11 | 30th | 30th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
1984/85 | HIFK Helsinki | SM-liiga | 36 | 21st | 34 | 55 | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1984/85 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1985/86 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 35 | 7th | 6th | 13 | 28 | 8th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7th | ||
1985/86 | Nova Scotia Oilers | AHL | 15th | 4th | 8th | 12 | 17th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1986/87 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 76 | 34 | 44 | 78 | 120 | 21st | 7th | 2 | 9 | 22nd | ||
1987/88 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 80 | 23 | 51 | 74 | 153 | 19th | 10 | 17th | 27 | 72 | ||
1988/89 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 67 | 31 | 47 | 78 | 92 | 7th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 12 | ||
1989/90 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 79 | 30th | 33 | 63 | 161 | 22nd | 13 | 11 | 24 | 26th | ||
1990/91 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 79 | 27 | 42 | 69 | 85 | 18th | 12 | 8th | 20th | 24 | ||
1991/92 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 40 | 12 | 16 | 28 | 44 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 8th | ||
1992/93 | Edmonton Oilers | NHL | 66 | 14th | 19th | 33 | 76 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1992/93 | New York Rangers | NHL | 15th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1993/94 | New York Rangers | NHL | 83 | 22nd | 32 | 54 | 114 | 23 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 34 | ||
1994/95 | HIFK Helsinki | SM-liiga | 19th | 2 | 11 | 13 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 43 | 12 | 23 | 35 | 22nd | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 20th | ||
1995/96 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 11 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1995/96 | New Jersey Devils | NHL | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1995/96 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 38 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 14th | 6th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
1996/97 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 62 | 12 | 15th | 27 | 66 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1996/97 | New York Rangers | NHL | 14th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6th | 15th | 9 | 3 | 12 | 26th | ||
1997/98 | Florida panthers | NHL | 28 | 1 | 8th | 9 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1997/98 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 20th | 2 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 21st | 3 | 3 | 6th | 20th | ||
1998/99 | New York Rangers | NHL | 32 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1999/00 | Jokerit Helsinki | SM-liiga | 43 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 85 | 11 | 1 | 6th | 7th | 10 | ||
2000/01 | Mosquitoes eat | DEL | 46 | 8th | 21st | 29 | 81 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
2002/03 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
2003/04 | without a contract | not played after resignation | ||||||||||||
2004/05 | Anyang Halla Winia | ALIH | 30th | 8th | 17th | 25th | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
A-Juniors-SM-liiga total | 38 | 41 | 42 | 83 | 123 | 8th | 8th | 6th | 14th | 18th | ||||
SM-liiga total | 135 | 52 | 69 | 121 | 173 | 14th | 1 | 7th | 8th | 12 | ||||
NHL overall | 877 | 244 | 386 | 630 | 1077 | 186 | 72 | 60 | 132 | 275 |
International
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year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1982 | Finland | U18 European Championship | 4th Place | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
1983 | Finland | U20 World Cup | 6th place | 7th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | |
1983 | Finland | U18 European Championship | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14th | ||
1984 | Finland | U20 World Cup | 7th | 8th | 4th | 12 | 12 | ||
1985 | Finland | U20 World Cup | 4th Place | 7th | 7th | 12 | 19th | 10 | |
1985 | Finland | WM | 5th place | 10 | 4th | 5 | 9 | 12 | |
1987 | NHL All-Stars | Date | - | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
1987 | Finland | Canada Cup | 6th place | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6th | |
1989 | Finland | WM | 5th place | 8th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 14th | |
1991 | Finland | Canada Cup | 3rd place | 6th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | |
1993 | Finland | WM | 7th place | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
1996 | Finland | WM | 5th place | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
1998 | Finland | Olympia | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
2000 | Finland | WM | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | ||
Juniors overall | 31 | 22nd | 22nd | 44 | 43 | ||||
Men overall | 53 | 13 | 15th | 28 | 52 |
( 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 )
Others
Tikkanen became particularly famous for his constant, difficult-to-understand babbling during the games, which was made up of a mixture of Finnish, Swedish and English, also known as "Tiki Talk" or "Tikkanese".
Web links
- Esa Tikkanen at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Esa Tikkanen at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Esa Tikkanen at hockeydb.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tikkanen, Esa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tikkanen, Esa Kalervo (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki , Finland |