Iiro Tarkki

Iiro Tarkki
Date of birth	July 1, 1985
place of birth	Rauma , Finland
size	189 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 2006	Lukko Rauma
2006-2009	SaiPa Lappeenranta
2009-2011	Espoo Blues
2011–2012	Syracuse crunch
2012-2013	Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2013-2014	Linköpings HC
2014-2015	Kärpät Oulu

Iiro Tarkki (born July 1, 1985 in Rauma ) is a former Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper who was active in the Liiga for SaiPa Lappeenranta , Espoo Blues and Kärpät Oulu , among others . His brother Tuomas Tarkki is also a hockey player.

Career

Iiro Tarkki began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Lukko Rauma , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga , the top Finnish division, in the 2004/05 season . In the period from 2003 to 2006, however, the goalkeeper only played a single role as a member of Lukko Rauma's professional team. Instead he ran for Lukko's U20 juniors in the Jr. A SM-liiga and as a loan player for the Finnish U20 national team , Hermes Kokkola and Haukat in the second-rate Mestis . For the 2006/07 season he moved within the SM-liiga to SaiPa Lappeenranta , but was loaned to SaPKo Savonllina from Mestis in his first year with the new team . In the following two years he made his breakthrough in professional ice hockey as a regular goalkeeper at SaiPa.

From 2009 to 2011 Tarkki played for the Espoo Blues in the SM-liiga. He was then committed by the Anaheim Ducks from the National Hockey League , for which, however, he only completed a single game. However, he spent the entire rest of the season as a goalkeeper with their farm team Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League . For the 2012/13 season , the Finn was obliged by Salawat Yulayev Ufa from the Continental Hockey League and completed 53 KHL games for this club. After a mixed start to the season, Tarkki was dismissed in October 2013, a month later he got a job at Linköpings HC from Svenska Hockeyligan . Subsequently, he completed eleven SHL missions for Linköping before he was signed by Kärpät Oulu from the local Liiga in July 2014 .

In December 2015, he ended his career for personal reasons.

International

For Finland Tarkki took part in the 2010 World Cup, in which he remained as a substitute goalkeeper without use. He was also in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2009, 2010 and 2011 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2015 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu

Career statistics

				Regular season										Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	S.	N	U / OT	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%		Sp	S.	N	Min	GT	SO	GTS	Sv%
2004/05	Lukko Rauma	SM-liiga		1	0	0	0	20th	0	0	0.00	100		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	SaiPa	SM-liiga		2	1	1	0	120	7th	0	3.50	84.1		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	SaiPa	SM-liiga		40	10	19th	7th	2331	94	4th	2.42	91.0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	SaiPa	SM-liiga		48	14th	27	6th	2753	129	1	2.81	91.4		3	3	0	189	6th	0	1.90	93.8
2009/10	Espoo Blues	SM-liiga		54	22nd	22nd	9	3228	131	2	2.44	91.8		3	1	2	220	7th	0	1.91	93.7
2010/11	Espoo Blues	SM-liiga		55	20th	20th	14th	3218	112	5	2.09	92.4		18th	10	8th	1097	40	3	2.19	92.4
2011/12	Syracuse crunch	AHL		50	24	17th	4th	2788	114	2	2.45	92.5		4th	1	3	244	15th	0	3.68	88.1
2011/12	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		1	1	0	0	41	3	0	4.39	70.0		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		39	20th	11	6th	2278	90	4th	2.37	91.3		14th	7th	7th	881	35	2	2.38	91.8

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

Commons : Iiro Tarkki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Iiro Tarkki at hockeydb.com (English)
• Iiro Tarkki at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kärpät ja Tarkki purkivat pelaajasopimuksen yhteisymmärryksessä. In: oulunkarpat.fi. December 31, 2015, accessed June 14, 2018 (Finnish).