Janne Ojanen
Date of birth | April 9, 1968 |
place of birth | Tampere , Finland |
size | 189 cm |
Weight | 91 kg |
position | center |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1986 , 3rd round, 45th position New Jersey Devils |
Career stations | |
until 1988 | Tappara Tampere |
1988-1989 | Utica Devils |
1989-1990 | New Jersey Devils |
1990-1992 | Tappara Tampere |
1992-1993 | New Jersey Devils |
1993-1996 | Tappara Tampere |
1996-1998 | Malmö IF |
1998-2010 | Tappara Tampere |
Janne Juhani Ojanen (born April 9, 1968 in Tampere ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach , who worked for Tappara Tampere in the SM-liiga and the New Jersey Devils in national hockey from 1985 to 2010 League has played.
Career
He began his professional career in 1985 at Tappara Tampere and was drawn in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils in the third round as 45th. Ojanen stayed in Finland for another two years before venturing to North America. Before that he won Olympic silver with the Finnish national team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary .
The 1988/89 season he spent mostly with the farm team of the Devils, the Utica Devils in the American Hockey League . He was only used three times in the NHL. The following season he played continuously with the New Jersey Devils in the NHL.
There followed two seasons in Finland, which he spent again with Tappara and only for the NHL playoffs of the 1991/92 season he returned to New Jersey. He started again the next season with a farm team, the Cincinnati Cyclones in the International Hockey League , but was then active 31 games for the Devils before he finally decided in 1993 to return to Europe.
At the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer , he won the bronze medal with the Finnish team.
He always spent his time in Finland at Tappara, interrupting it once for a playoff game in Switzerland with HC Lugano in 1995 and for two seasons from 1996 to 1998 in the Swedish Elitserien at Malmö IF .
In the Finnish league he was a player for Tappara Tampere all his life. From autumn 2000 until the end of his active career (2009/10) he was captain of the team. On November 28th, 2009 he took the lead in the eternal top scorer classification of the Finnish SM-liiga . Following the 2009/10 season , he ended his career. In his honor, Tappara Tampere no longer gives the shirt number 8. In the 2011/12 season , Ojanen worked as an assistant coach at his long-standing home club Tappara Tampere.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tapparan Janne Ojaselle historic line piste! In: liiga.fi. November 28, 2009, accessed October 27, 2017 (Finnish).
Web links
- Janne Ojanen at hockeydb.com (English)
- Janne Ojanen at eurohockey.com
- Janne Ojanen at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Janne Ojanen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ojanen, Janne |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ojanen, Janne Juhani |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tampere , Finland |