Jari Pasanen

Jari Pasanen
Date of birth	19th August 1964
place of birth	Imatra , Finland
size	185 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1993	Ketterä Imatra
1993-1994	Muskegon Fury Daytona Beach Sun Devils
1994-1996	ESC Wedemark
1996-1997	Wedemark Scorpions
1997-1999	EC Wilhelmshaven
1999-2000	EHC Thuringia
2000-2002	Schweinfurt Mighty Dogs

Jari Pasanen (born August 19, 1964 in Imatra ) is a former German - Finnish ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

player

Pasanen began his professional career at his home club Ketterä Imatra in the Finnish I-divisioona , the second highest division, for which he laced his skates from 1984 to 1987. After a 4-year break he made his comeback with Ketterä Imatra in the 1992/93 season, but this time in the II-divisioona. Then Pasanen moved to North America and played first for the Muskegon Fury in the Colonial Hockey League and later in the Sunshine Hockey League with the West Palm Beach Blaze and Daytona Beach Sun Devils .

Then Pasanen moved to Germany and played for ESC Wedemark for two years in the 1st Bundesliga North . In the 1996/97 season Wedemark played for the first time in the German Ice Hockey League , where Pasanen was used both as a defender and as a striker.

For the following season Pasanen moved from the DEL to the 1st League North, where he completed two seasons at EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen . In the 1999/2000 season Pasanen decided to move to ESC Thuringia Erfurt , for which he played in the newly founded league .

Pasanen ended his career as a player with the Schweinfurt Mighty Dogs , for which he went on the ice for two years in the Regionalliga Süd .

Career statistics

				Regular season
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1984/85	Ketterä Imatra	1st Div		31	12	9	21st	10
1985/86	Ketterä Imatra	1st Div		44	13	14th	27	26th
1986/87	Ketterä Imatra	1st Div		23	4th	1	5	8th
1992/93	Ketterä Imatra	2nd Div		23	12	24	36	18th
1993/94	Muskegon Fury	CoHL		11	1	1	2	2
1993/94	West Palm Beach Blaze	SuHL		1	0	0	0	2
1993/94	Daytona Beach Sun Devils	SuHL		29	6th	28	34	16
1994/95	ESC Wedemark	1st BL		26th	11	16	27	16
1995/96	ESC Wedemark	1st BL		51	27	34	61	14th
1996/97	Wedemark Scorpions	DEL		46	6th	5	11	10
1997/98	EC Wilhelmshaven	1st BL		28	22nd	18th	40	14th
1998/99	EC Wilhelmshaven	1st BL		38	15th	37	52	14th
1999/00	Thuringia Erfurt	OIL		44	13	25th	38	18th
2000/01	ERV Schweinfurt	RL		41	10	31	41	44
2001/02	ERV Schweinfurt	RL		41	14th	33	47	42

( 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 )

Trainer

Jari Pasanen
Coaching stations
2002-2004	Schweinfurt Mighty Dogs
2004-2005	Hannover Scorpions ( Assistant Trainer )
2005-2008	Mosquitoes eat
2008	Schwenninger Wild Wings
2010-2011	Mosquitoes eat
2012-2013	Iserlohn Roosters (Assistant Trainer)
2013-2017	Iserlohn Roosters
since April 2018	Frederikshavn White Hawks

After his career as a player he was head coach in Schweinfurt, where he led his team in the 2002/03 season to first place in the Oberliga championship round. In the playoffs, however, the Mighty Dogs failed because of the EC peiting . In the following season he reached the playoffs with his team and again had to admit defeat in the quarterfinals against the later promoted Lausitzer Füchse .

In the 2004/05 season he was assistant coach at the Hannover Scorpions in the DEL alongside Kevin Gaudet . During the 2005/06 season he came to the mosquitos food as a replacement for the previously dismissed Anton Krinner , with whom he was able to maintain relegation in the 2nd Bundesliga . In the following two seasons he reached the playoffs with the mosquitoes food and failed both times in the quarterfinals.

After the bankruptcy of the mosquitoes, he moved to the 2008/09 season together with assistant coach Anton Raubal to the Schwenninger Wild Wings , which he trained until December 7th. The Wild Wings canceled his contract after a mixed start to the season.

In April 2010 Pasanen was presented again at the mosquito food . In the 2010/11 season he was coach and sporting director for the league club. In the 2012/13 season he signed a contract with the Iserlohn Roosters , where he initially worked as an assistant coach alongside Doug Mason . After Doug Mason's leave of absence on October 29, 2013, Jari Pasanen took over the position of head coach.

He managed to lead the team from last to tenth place and to beat the favored team from Munich in the qualifying games (pre-playoffs). In the following two seasons, the Iserlohn coach, who had been the most successful to date, led the Roosters to the quarter-finals. In the 2015/2016 season , the team achieved third place, the best position so far in the DEL at the end of the main round. On October 10, 2017, Pasanen was given leave of absence as head coach in Iserlohn. At this time, the Sauerlanders were in last place in the table and had started the 2017/18 game year with three wins and seven defeats. The club justified the separation with the "lack of tactical development" of the team.

In April 2018 he moved to the Frederikshavn White Hawks in the Danish Metal Ligaen.

Web links

• Jari Pasanen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jari Pasanen at eurohockey.com
• Jari Pasanen at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://iserlohn-roosters.de/2017/10/10/jari-pasanen-beurlaubt/
2. ↑ White Hawks - Frederikshavn White Hawks. Retrieved November 2, 2018 (da-dk).