Jori Lehterä

Jori Lehterä
Date of birth	December 23, 1987
place of birth	Helsinki , Finland
size	186 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
number	# 12
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 3rd round, 65th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
until 2007	Jokerit Helsinki
2007-2010	Tappara Tampere
2009	Peoria Rivermen
2010-2011	Yaroslavl locomotive
2011-2014	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2014-2017	St. Louis Blues
2017-2019	Philadelphia Flyers
2019-2020	SKA Saint Petersburg
since 2020	HK Spartak Moscow

Jori Lehterä (born December 23, 1987 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Spartak Moscow in the Continental Hockey League since May 2020 . His uncle Tero was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Jori Lehterä in Tappara jersey (2008)

Jori Lehterä began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Jokerit Helsinki, for whose professional team he was active in the SM-liiga in the 2006/07 season after making his debut for the Finnish U20 national team in the course of the previous year in the second-rate mestis . With Jokerit, the center was runner-up in its rookie year . He then moved to his league rivals Tappara Tampere, where he spent the following three seasons. During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2008 in the third round as the 65th player of the St. Louis Blues , for which he never played. Only for their farm team Peoria Rivermen , the national player came towards the end of the 2008/09 season to a total of 14 appearances in the American Hockey League , in which he scored one goal and prepared two more.

In the 2009/10 season Lehterä was able to draw attention to himself when he scored 20 goals and 59 assists for Tappara in a total of 66 games. He was then elected to the All-Star Team of the SM-liiga and received both the Lasse-Oksanen Trophy as the best player in the main round and the Veli-Pekka-Ketola Trophy as the top scorer. With 50 assists he was also the best assists in the main round. After this personally successful for him playing time of the links contactors for was 2010/11 of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League committed. In May 2011 the Finn signed a contract with HK Sibir Novosibirsk .

In July 2014 Lehterä moved to the St. Louis Blues , who had drafted him in 2008, and signed a two-year contract with the Blues. After just one year, however, this was extended until the end of the 2018/19 season. In June 2017, however, the Blues gave it to the Philadelphia Flyers and received Brayden Schenn in return . In addition, Philadelphia received a first-round right to vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft and a conditional first-round right to vote in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . Should St. Louis be allowed to draft in the top ten in 2018, the first-round voting right for the NHL Entry Draft 2019 will be postponed and Philadelphia will receive an additional third-round voting right for the NHL Entry Draft 2020 . This did not happen afterwards.

After five years in the NHL, Lehterä returned to the KHL by signing a deal with SKA Saint Petersburg in June 2019 . After a year at SKA and 30 scorer points for the army sports club, Lehterä moved to HK Spartak Moscow .

International

For Finland , Lehterä took part in the 2010 World Cup in Germany , as well as in the Euro Hockey Tour in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 . At the Olympic Games in 2014 he won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team and, a little later, the silver medal at the World Cup of the same year. He also represented his home country at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

2007 Finnish runner-up with Jokerit Helsinki 2010 SM-liiga All-Star Team 2010 Kultainen kypärä 2010 Lasse Oksanen Trophy

2010 Veli Pekka Ketola Trophy 2010 Most templates in the SM-liiga 2012 KHL striker of the month for September

International

• 2014 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2014 silver medal at the world championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2005/06	Jokerit U20	A-Jun. SM-liiga		39	14th	33	47	+13	16		4th	1	4th	5	+1	0
2005/06	Finland U20	Mestis		2	0	0	0	+1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Jokerit U20	A-Jun. SM-liiga		24	18th	48	66	+26	20th		5	1	7th	8th	+5	2
2006/07	Finland U20	Mestis		10	4th	7th	11	+3	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Jokerite	SM-liiga		28	6th	6th	12	+6	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Tappara	SM-liiga		54	13	29	42	+12	32		11	4th	2	6th	+3	8th
2008/09	Tappara	SM-liiga		58	9	38	47	-1	34		3	4th	5	9	+5	4th
2008/09	Peoria Rivermen	AHL		7th	0	1	1	+1	2		7th	1	1	2	-2	10
2009/10	Tappara	SM-liiga		57	19th	50	69	+5	58		9	1	9	10	± 0	8th
2010/11	Yaroslavl locomotive	KHL		53	16	21st	37	+15	38		18th	0	3	3	-2	14th
2011/12	HK Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL		25th	10	16	26th	+9	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HK Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL		52	17th	29	46	+18	46		3	0	2	2	+1	0
2013/14	HK Sibir Novosibirsk	KHL		48	12	32	44	+14	22nd		10	0	6th	6th	+6	2
2014/15	St. Louis Blues	NHL		75	14th	30th	44	+21	48		5	0	2	2	-2	0
2015/16	St. Louis Blues	NHL		79	9	25th	34	+12	38		20th	3	6th	9	± 0	10
2016/17	St. Louis Blues	NHL		64	7th	15th	22nd	–6	34		8th	1	3	4th	+5	4th
2017/18	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		62	3	5	8th	-8th	14th		6th	0	2	2	± 0	0
2018/19	Lehigh Valley Phantoms	AHL		5	1	2	3	± 0	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		27	1	2	3	–7	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
A-Jun. SM-liiga total				63	32	81	113	+39	36		9	2	11	13	+6	2
Mestis total				12	4th	7th	11	+4	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				12	1	3	4th	+1	6th		7th	1	1	2	-2	10
AHL total				178	55	98	153	+56	116		31	0	11	11	+5	16
NHL overall				307	34	77	111	+12	167		39	4th	13	17th	+3	14th

International

Represented Finland at:

• World Championship 2010
• 2014 Winter Olympics
• World Championship 2014
• World Cup of Hockey 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Finland	WM	6th place		5	0	0	0	± 0	0
2014	Finland	Olympia			6th	1	3	4th	+3	0
2014	Finland	WM			10	3	9	12	+4	10
2016	Finland	World cup	8th place		3	0	0	0	-1	2
Men overall					24	4th	12	16	+6	12

( 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 )

Web links

Commons : Jori Lehterä  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jori Lehterä at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jordan Hall: Flyers trade Brayden Schenn to Blues for No. 27 Morgan Frost, Jori Lehtera, additional pick. csnphilly.com, June 23, 2017, accessed June 24, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Йори Лехтеря перешёл в «Спартак». In: spartak.ru. May 12, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 (Russian).