Ilkka Pikkarainen

Ilkka Pikkarainen
Date of birth	April 19, 1981
place of birth	Sonkajärvi , Finland
size	188 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 7th round, 218th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
until 2003	HIFK Helsinki
2003-2006	Albany River Rats
2006-2009	HIFK Helsinki
2009-2010	New Jersey Devils
2010	HK CSKA Moscow
2010–2012	Timrå IK
2012-2014	Pelicans
2014-2018	TPS Turku
2018-2019	Ravensburg tower stars
2019	KalPa Kuopio

Ilkka Pikkarainen (born April 19, 1981 in Sonkajärvi ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who was last under contract with KalPa Kuopio in the Liiga .

Career

Ilkka Pikkarainen began his career as an ice hockey player in the youth department of HIFK Helsinki , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the 2000/01 season . After he completed a full season in professional ice hockey for the first time in the following year, the attacker was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2002 in the seventh round as a total of 218th player by the New Jersey Devils . After he was still on the ice in the SM-liiga for the HIFK until 2003, he played from 2003 to 2006 in the American Hockey League for the Devils farm team , the Albany River Rats . The Finn then returned to Helsinki for another three years before receiving a contract with the New Jersey Devils for the 2009/10 season . On October 5, 2009, the Finn made his debut in the National Hockey League in the game against the New York Rangers .

In January 2010 Pikkarainen moved from the Devils to HK CSKA Moscow in the Continental Hockey League . By the end of the season he prepared two goals in a total of nine games. For the 2010/11 season he joined Timrå IK from the Swedish Elitserien , for which he played until January 2012. At the end of 2011, he was loaned to Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg for the Spengler Cup 2011 .

In January 2012 he moved back to Finland to the Pelicans , for which he was active until the end of the 2013/14 season and in 2012 reached the Finnish runner-up. From May 2014 he was under contract with TPS Turku before moving to the Ravensburg Towerstars in the second German division, the DEL2 , for the 2018/19 season.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	31	1	3	4th	10
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	4th	197	29	33	62	305
AHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL main round	1	6th	0	2	2	0
KHL playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	6th
Elitserien main round	2	77	20th	18th	38	137
Elitserien Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
SM liiga main round	10	414	95	103	198	869
SM liiga playoffs	4th	40	3	9	12	48

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Ilkka Pikkarainen at eliteprospects.com (English)