Juha Metsola

Juha Metsola
Date of birth	February 24, 1989
place of birth	Tampere , Finland
size	177 cm
Weight	69 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 77
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2004-2007	Tampereen Ilves
2007-2009	Lethbridge Hurricanes
2009-2011	Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho
2011-2015	Tappara
2015-2018	Amur Khabarovsk
since 2018	Salawat Yulayev Ufa

Juha Metsola (born February 24, 1989 in Tampere ) is a Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper . Since May 2018 he has been under contract with Salawat Julajew Ufa in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Juha Metsola began his career with Tampereen Ilves in his hometown, where he went through all junior teams and in 2006 became Finnish B youth champion. After he was selected in the first round of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the CHL Import Draft 2007 in 25th place, he moved to North America and played the following two seasons for the team from Alberta in the Western Hockey League . In 2008 he achieved the second best catch quota behind Dustin Tokarski of the Spokane Chiefs and the second best goal against Tyson Sexsmith of the Vancouver Giants . In 2009 he returned to Finland and joined the Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho , with whom he became Finnish runner-up in 2010. During this time he was loaned out to clubs from the second-class Mestis . In 2011 he moved back to his hometown Tampere , where he was now in the box of Tappara . With the club he was runner-up again three times (2013, 2014 and 2015). He achieved the highest number of shutouts in the Liiga in each of the three runners-up years . After he had the second best quota after Antti Raanta von Porin Ässät in 2013 , he even achieved the best catch quota of the Liiga in 2015. In the same year he was honored as the best goalkeeper in the division with the Urpo-Ylönen Trophy . He was the first Tappara player since 2001 (then Jussi Markkanen ) to receive this award.

From 2015 Metsola played for Amur Khabarovsk in the Continental Hockey League and was nominated for the KHL All-Star Game in 2016 .

International

In the junior division, Metsola played for Finland at the U18 World Cup in 2007 , when he scored the lowest goal goal and after the Swiss Robert Mayer and the Slovak Jaroslav Janus the third best catch rate, and the U20 World Championship in 2009 , when he again had the lowest goal goal and after Jacob Markström achieved the second best catch quota of the tournament.

During the Euro Hockey Tour 2012/13 he made his debut in the Finnish men's selection . In 2018 he was part of the Finnish squad at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang , but was not used.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Finnish B youth champion with Tampereen Ilves
• 2007 Lowest goals against goals against in the U18 World Championship
• 2009 Lowest goals against goals against at the U20 World Cup
• 2013 Most of the Liiga shutouts
• 2014 Most of the Liiga shutouts
• 2015 Best catch quota and most shutouts in the Liiga and Urpo-Ylönen trophy
• 2016 KHL All-Star Game

Web links

Commons : Juha Metsola  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juha Metsola at eliteprospects.com (English)