Janne Grönvall

Janne Grönvall
Date of birth	17th July 1973
place of birth	Rauma , Finland
size	191 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1992 , 5th round, 101st position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
until 1992	Lukko Rauma
1992-1994	Tappara Tampere
1994-1996	St. John's Maple Leafs
1996-2003	Tappara Tampere
2003-2005	Färjestad BK
2005-2009	Tappara Tampere
2009-2010	Krefeld penguins

Janne Grönvall (born July 17, 1973 in Rauma ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

Janne Grönvall began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth division of Lukko Rauma , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the 1989/90 season , where he remained unpunished in five games. In the following season, his first full professional ice hockey game, the defender scored two goals in 40 games and made eight assists, whereupon he was named Rookie of the Year . In the summer of 1992, the junior international moved to Lukko's league rivals Tappara Tampere , for whom he was on the ice for the next two years before he was ordered to North America by the Toronto Maple Leafs towards the end of the 1993/94 season , which he had previously done in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft in the fifth round as the 101st player selected. In his two years in the Toronto franchise , however, he ran exclusively for its farm team from the American Hockey League , the St. John's Maple Leafs .

In the summer of 1996 Grönvall returned to his Finnish homeland, where he spent the following seven seasons at his ex-club Tappara Tampere. With Tappara, the left-handed shooter won the Finnish championship for the first time in the 2002/03 season , after failing with his team in the playoff finals in the previous two years. After this success he signed with Färjestad BK from the Swedish Elitserien , with whom he was twice runner-up in two seasons. The Finn and his team were inferior to the HV71 and then the Frölunda HC . He then returned to Tampere for the third time to Tappara, where he played until 2009. For the 2009/10 season he was signed by the Krefeld Penguins from the German Ice Hockey League . In 45 games he prepared seven goals for Krefeld. He then ended his active career.

Since the 2011/12 season Grönvall has been assistant coach for the U20 juniors at Tappara Tampere.

International

For Finland , Grönvall took part in the Junior World Championships in 1991 , 1992 and 1993 , as well as the 2001 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

1991 Best rookie in the SM-liiga 1995 AHL All-Star Classic 1996 AHL All-Star Classic 2001 Finnish runner-up with Tappara Tampere 2001 SM-liiga All-Star-Team

2002 Finnish runner-up with Tappara Tampere 2003 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere 2004 Swedish runner-up with Färjestad BK 2005 Swedish runner-up with Färjestad BK

International

• 1992 All-Star-Team at the Junior World Championship
• 1993 Best Defender in the Junior World Championship
• 1993 Second All-Star Team at the Junior World Championship
• 2001 silver medal at the world championship

Elitserien Statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	2	98	1	13	14th	140
Playoffs	2	32	2	5	7th	26th

Web links

• Janne Grönvall at hockeydb.com (English)
• Janne Grönvall at eurohockey.com
• Janne Grönvall at eliteprospects.com (English)