Jokerite

This article describes the hockey club Jokerit from Helsinki. For the former football club of the same name, see FC Jokerit

Jokerite
Greatest successes
Six times Finnish champion Winner European Cup 1995, 1996 Winner IIHF Continental Cup 2003
Club information
history	Jokerite (since 1967)
Club colors	   
league	Continental hockey league
Venue	Hartwall Arena
capacity	13,349 seats
executive Director	Jari Kurri
Head coach	Lauri Marjamäki
captain	Peter Regin
Season 2018/19	4th place (west), conference quarter-finals

Jokerit (dt. The Joker , full club name Helsingin Jokerit ry ) is a Finnish ice hockey club from Helsinki . The club emerged in 1967 from the ice hockey department of the bankrupt sports club Töölön Vesa . Jokerit played from 1969 to 1987 and again since 1989 in the top Finnish league, today's Liiga , and won six Finnish championships during this time. From the 2014/15 season, Jokerit became the first Finnish ice hockey club to switch to the Continental Hockey League . The team plays their home games in the Hartwall Arena, which can hold over 13,000 spectators .

history

The ice hockey department of the amateur sports club Töölön Vesa was heavily indebted and was dissolved in 1967. Aimo Mäkinen took the opportunity and founded a semi-professional sports club on the basis of the existing structures, including the junior teams and the right to start in the second highest Finnish league, the Suomi-sarja .

Only a few players from the first team of Töölön Vesa were transferred to the new club. Among them were Timo Turunen , who is still the best points collector in the club's history. Then there were Pentti Hiiros and Timo Kyntölä , with whom he formed the so-called nallipyssyketju series until 1975 - this name comes from the rather small height of the players (Hiiros was the tallest of the three players at 172 cm).

On June 28, 2013 it was officially announced that both the hall ( Hartwall Areena ) and the club had been sold to the Russian-Finnish entrepreneur Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Timchenko and the Russian-Finnish Rotenberg family. As a result, he will move to the Continental Hockey League from the 2014/15 season .

successes

Men's team

• SM-sarja:
  • 1 × master: 1973
• SM-liiga:
  • 5 × champions: 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2002
  • 6 times runner-up: 1971, 1983, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2007
• European Cup :
  • 2 × cup winners: 1995, 1996
• IIHF Continental Cup :
  • 1 × cup winner: 2003

Junior team

• SM liiga championship:
  • A-Juniors (up to 20 years):
    • Gold medal: 1988, 1996, 1999, 2000
    • Silver medal: four times
  • B-Juniors (up to 18 years):
    • Gold medal: 1976, 1999, 2003
    • Silver medal: four times
    • Bronze medal: six times
  • C-Juniors (up to 16 years):
    • Gold medal: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1997, 2000
    • Silver medal: three times
    • Bronze medal: four times

player

Squad of the 2017/18 season

Status: August 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
98		Jānis Kalniņš	G	December 13, 1991	2018	Limbaži , Latvian SSR
39		Not so Lindbäck	G	0May 3, 1988	2020	Gävle , Sweden
3		Niklas Friman	D.	August 30, 1993	2020	Rauma , Finland
51		Alex Grant	D.	January 20, 1989	2018	Antigonish , Nova Scotia , Canada
4th		Tommi Kivistö	D.	0June 7, 1991	2017	Vantaa , Finland
36		Jakub Krejčík	D.	June 25, 1991	2020	Prague , Czechoslovakia
44		Mikko Lehtonen	D.	January 16, 1994	2019	Turku , Finland
18th		Sami Lepistö -  A	D.	17th October 1984	2017	Espoo , Finland
50		Viktor Lööv	D.	November 16, 1992	2018	Södertälje , Sweden
77		Eemeli Räsänen	D.	0May 6, 1999	2018	Joensuu , Finland
12		Marko Anttila	RW	May 27, 1985	2016	Lempäälä , Finland
48		Henri icons	LW	April 17, 1994	2017	Savonlinna , Finland
		Henrik Haapala	LW	February 28, 1994	2019	Lempäälä , Finland
71		Nicklas Jensen	RW	March 16, 1993	2017	Herning , Denmark
18th		Jesse Joensuu -  A	LW	05th October 1987	2015	Pori , Finland
		Saku Maeenalanen	RW	May 29, 1994	2019	Tornio , Finland
22nd		Mika Niemi	C.	March 10, 1988	2016	Pori , Finland
37		John Norman	C.	0January 6, 1991	2017	Stockholm , Sweden
21st		Brian O'Neill	RW	0June 1, 1988	2016	Yardley , Pennsylvania , USA
		Iiro Pakarinen	RW	August 25, 1991	2020	Suonenjoki , Finland
41		Antti Pihlström	LW	October 22, 1984	2016	Vantaa , Finland
		Veli-Matti Savinainen	RW	05th January 1986	2019	Espoo , Finland
		Jordan Schroeder	RW	September 29, 1990	2020	Prior Lake , Minnesota , USA
		Eeli Tolvanen	LW	April 22, 1999	2020	Vihti , Finland

Blocked jersey numbers

• # 5   Esa Tikkanen
• # 8   Teemu Selänne
• # 11   Tomek Valtonen
• # 17   Jari Kurri
• # 23   Petri Varis
• # 24   Waltteri Immonen
• # 91   Otakar Janecký

NHL player

The following NHL players started their careers at Jokerit or played for the club during their careers. The year numbers in brackets indicate the time at Jokerit.

• Antti Aalto (2001-2003)
• Sean Bergenheim (2001-2003, 2004)
• Brian Campbell (2004/05)
• Valtteri Filppula (2003-2005)
• Niklas Hagman (2014-2016)
• Sami Helenius (1992, 2003-2004, 2007-2009)
• Henri Jokiharju (until 2015)
• Niko Kapanen (2014-2016)
• Erik Karlsson (2012-2013)
• John Klingberg (2011/12)
• Joonas Korpisalo (2009-2014)
• Jari Kurri (1977-1980, 1994)
• Kari Lehtonen (2000-2003)
• Ville Leino (2007/08)
• Juha Lind (1993–1997, 1998/99, 2008–2010)
• Esa Lindell (2008-2014)
• Tomi Mäki (2001-2005, 2008-2019)
• Glen Metropolit (2003-2005)
• Antti-Jussi Niemi (1996–2000, 2002–2003, 2009–2014)
• Michael Nylander (2010)
• Linus Omark (2014/2015)
• Ville Peltonen (2001-2003)
• Karri Rämö (2017-2018)
• Jani Rita (1998–2001, since 2006)
• Jarkko Ruutu (since 2011)
• Tuomo Ruutu (2000-2002)
• Sami Salo (1997-1998)
• Teemu Selänne (1988-1992, 1994)
• Tim Stapleton (2006-2008)
• Teuvo Teräväinen (2008-2014)
• Tim Thomas (2004-2005)
• Esa Tikkanen (1999-2000)
• Antti Törmänen (1990–1995, 1996–1998, 2000–2002)
• Ossi Väänänen (1998–2000, 2004/05, 2010–2016)
• Petri Varis (1993–1997, 1999–2001, 2004–2009)

Trainer since 1968

• Jorma Kyntölä 1968–1969
• Aulis Hirvonen 1969–1970
• Matti Lampainen 1970–1973, 1973–1974
• Rauli Virtanen 1973
• Boris Majorow 1974–1976, 1990–1993
• Jorma Borgström 1976-1977
• Pentti Katainen 1977-1988
• Timo Turunen 1978
• Matti Väisänen 1978–1980, 1985–1987
• Olli Hietanen 1980–1982
• Reino Ruotsalainen 1982-1985
• Henry Leppä 1987–1988
• Kari Mäkinen 1988-1990
• Alpo Suhonen 1993
• Hannu Aravirta 1993-1996
• Curt Lundmark 1996-1997, 1997-1998
• Sakari Pietilä 1997
• Hannu Kapanen 1998–1999
• Timo Lahtinen 1999
• Erkka Westerlund 1999–2001, 2010–2012
• Raimo Summanen 2001-2003
• Hannu Jortikka 2003-2005, 2009-2010
• Waltteri Immonen 2005
• Curt Lindström 2005-2006
• Doug Shedden 2006-2008
• Glen Hanlon 2008-2009
• Hannu Aravirta 2009
• Hannu Jortikka 2009-2010
• Erkka Westerlund 2010–2012
• Tomi Lämsä 2012-2013
• Tomi Lämsä, Tomek Valtonen 2013–2014
• Erkka Westerlund 2014–2016
• Jukka Jalonen since 2016

Web links

Commons : Jokerit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Stadium information, audience numbers