Juhamatti Aaltonen

Juhamatti Aaltonen
Date of birth	June 4th 1985
place of birth	II , Finland
size	182 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	striker
number	# 50
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 9th lap, 284th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2003-2009	Kärpät Oulu
2009-2010	Pelicans
2010–2012	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2012-2013	Rögle BK
2013-2014	Kärpät Oulu
2014-2016	Jokerit Helsinki
since 2016	Helsingfors IFK

Juhamatti Aaltonen (born June 4, 1985 in Ii ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Helsingfors IFK (HIFK) in the Finnish Liiga since June 2016 .

Career

Juhamatti Aaltonen trying to shoot

Juhamatti Aaltonen already played in the junior division for Kärpät Oulu , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the 2003/04 season . Even before his rookie season , Aaltonen was selected in the ninth round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft as a total of 284th player by the St. Louis Blues , for which he never played. Since his debut, the attacker with Kärpät has won the championship title in the SM-liiga four times in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 and was runner-up in 2009 and third in 2006. In addition, he reached the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup twice with Kärpät in 2005 and 2006 , with the team losing to the two Russian representatives HK Awangard Omsk and HK Dynamo Moscow .

In 2009, Aaltonen was signed by the Pelicans , who loaned him to HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk for the 2010/11 season . A year later he received a new contract with Metallurg, which was terminated in July 2012. He then moved within the KHL to HK Tractor Chelyabinsk , for which he was not used. In October 2012 he was therefore obliged by Rögle BK .

In the 2013/14 season he was under contract with Kärpät again and at the end of the season he won another Finnish championship with his home club. After this success he returned to the KHL and moved to Jokerit Helsinki .

At the 2014 Olympic Games , he won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team.

Achievements and Awards

2004 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu 2005 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu 2005 2nd place at the IIHF European Champions Cup with Kärpät Oulu 2006 2nd place at the IIHF European Champions Cup with Kärpät Oulu 2007 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu 2008 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu

2009 Finnish runner-up with Kärpät Oulu 2010 Aarne-Honkavaara-Trophy ( Most goals in SM-liiga ) 2014 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu 2014 Jari Kurri Trophy ( Best Player of the Playoffs )

International

• 2011 gold medal at the world championship
• 2014 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003/04	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		8th	0	0	0	2
2004/05	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		6th	0	0	0	0
2005/06	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		50	13	12	25th	28		9	0	0	0	0
2006/07	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		53	11	21st	32	48		10	1	4th	5	6th
2007/08	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		44	9	17th	26th	20th		15th	3	2	5	4th
2008/09	Kärpät Oulu	SM-liiga		53	10	21st	31	14th		15th	3	6th	9	2
2009/10	Pelicans Lahti	SM-liiga		58	28	21st	49	56
2010/11	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		54	20th	19th	39	22nd		20th	6th	3	9	16
2011/12	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		54	22nd	9	31	29		8th	1	2	3	2
2012/13	Rögle BK	Elitserien		42	12	19th	31	22nd		10	3	2	5	4 1
2013/14	Kärpät Oulu	Liiga		35	12	19th	31	38		16	8th	7th	15th	6th
2014/15	Jokerite	KHL		48	10	24	34	28		10	4th	2	6th	22nd
2015/16	Jokerite	KHL		45	15th	13	28	14th		6th	0	1	1	0

( 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 : Juhamatti Aaltonen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juhamatti Aaltonen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Juhamatti Aaltonen at eurohockey.com