Jukka Jalonen

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Jukka Jalonen
Date of birth November 2nd, 1962
place of birth Riihimäki , Finland
position striker
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1985-1986 JyP HT
1988-1989 Ahmat Hyvinkää

Jukka Pertti Juhani Jalonen (born November 2, 1962 in Riihimäki ) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and former player who played in the SM-liiga during his active time for JyP HT . Since 2018 he has been the head coach of the Finnish national ice hockey team .

Career

Jukka Jalonen played only one season in professional ice hockey in his active career. In the 1985/86 season he played two games for JyP HT in the SM-liiga , the top division of Finland. Afterwards he was only active in the amateur field.

After the end of his career, Jalonen took over the coaching position at Ilves Tampere in 1992 , which he looked after for three years in the SM-liiga . He then coached Lukko Rauma in the 1996/97 season , before the Finn first worked abroad, where he coached HC Alleghe from the Italian Serie A for one year and then the Newcastle Jesters from the Ice Hockey Superleague for two years .

Jukka Jalonen after winning the 2011 World Cup gold medal

In 2001 Jalonen returned to his Finnish homeland, where he was signed by HPK Hämeenlinna , with whom he took third place in the SM four times in the following six seasons - in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007. liiga reached. In addition, he was with the team in 2006 Finnish champion , for which he was awarded the Kalevi Numminen trophy as the best coach of the season. In the 2006/07 season Jalonen reached the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup with the team , which the team clearly lost 6-0 against the Russian representative Ak Bars Kazan .

In the summer of 2007, Jalonen became the assistant coach of Finland's new national coach, the Canadian Doug Shedden . After he received a contract with EV Zug in the Swiss National League A before the 2008/09 season , Jalonen took over his position as head coach. At the 2011 World Cup , Jalonen won the gold medal with the Finnish selection.

From December 2012, Jalonen was also head coach at SKA Saint Petersburg before he gave up the office of national coach after the 2013 World Cup and concentrated entirely on the SKA. In early April 2014 he was released from his current contract by the SKA.

In the 2015/16 season he was head coach of the Finnish U20 national team and won the gold medal with them at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2016 . Between 2016 and 2018 he was the head coach of Jokerit Helsinki from the Continental Hockey League . He then became national coach again and was again world champion with Finland in 2019.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coaches. (No longer available online.) In: jokerit.com. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017 ; accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jukka Jalonen takes over the Finnish national team. In: hockeyweb.de. October 4, 2017, accessed April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jalonen, Jukka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jalonen, Jukka Pertti Juhani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Riihimäki , Finland