Jyrki Jokipakka

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FinlandFinland  Jyrki Jokipakka Ice hockey player
Jokipakka in the national team jersey (2017)

Jokipakka in the national team jersey (2017)
Date of birth August 20, 1991
place of birth Tampere , Finland
size 191 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
number # 3
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2011 , 5th round, 134th position
HK Awangard Omsk
NHL Entry Draft 2011 , 7th round, 195th position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
until 2013 Tampereen Ilves
2013-2014 Texas Stars
2014-2016 Dallas Stars
2016-2017 Calgary Flames
2017 Ottawa Senators
2017-2019 HK Sochi
since 2019 HK Sibir Novosibirsk

Jyrki Jokipakka (born August 20, 1991 in Tampere ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League since August 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Jyrki Jokipakka in the Tampereen Ilves jersey

Jyrki Jokipakka was born in Tampere and went through the youth departments of Tampereen Ilves , his hometown ice hockey club. Already in the 2008/09 season, at the age of 17, he made his debut for Ilves' U20 in the SM-liiga for A-Juniors, the highest junior league in Finland. After he had spent the entire 2009/10 season in this division and stood on the ice seven times for the Finnish U19 national team, he made his professional debut in the 2010/11 season. In addition to a few appearances for Lempäälän Kisa and the Finnish U20 national team in the Mestis , the second highest Finnish league, the defender established himself directly in the Tampereen Ilves squad and had 48 games and nine points scorer in the SM-liiga . After the season he was selected in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in 195th position by the Dallas Stars and in the KHL Junior Draft 2011 in 134th position by HK Awangard Omsk . In the following season 2011/12 Jokipakka came on 52 missions for Tampereen Ilves and scored 17 points scorer.

Jyrki Jokipakka (2012)

In June 2012, the Dallas Stars then provided him with a three-year entry contract , but initially loaned him to Tampereen Ilves for a year to allow him to continue playing. Thus, the defender moved to North America only in preparation for the 2013/14 season and was initially given by the Dallas Stars to the Texas Stars , their farm team from the American Hockey League . The Finn spent the entire season there and won the Calder Cup with the team at the end of the playoffs . In the 2014/15 season, Jokipakka established himself in the National Hockey League , in which he (in addition to 19 AHL appearances) completed 51 games and got ten scorer points.

After almost four years in the Dallas Stars organization, Jokipakka was handed over to the Calgary Flames in February 2016 along with Brett Pollock and a success-based second-round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Kris Russell moved to Dallas. The second-round electoral law should become one for the first draft round of the same year if Dallas reaches the final of the Western Conference in the playoffs and Russell completes at least half of the games. This did not happen afterwards.

At the trade deadline on March 1, 2017, Jokipakka was handed over to the Ottawa Senators after about a year in Calgary, including a second-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Curtis Lazar and Michael Kostka moved to the Flames. There the Finn mostly found himself in the stands and only played three more games of the season, so that he could not recommend himself for a contract extension. In September 2017 he found a new employer in the Washington Capitals , which hired him on probation, but they ultimately didn't hire him. As a result, the Finn decided in October 2017 to move to HK Sochi in the Continental Hockey League (KHL). For the club from the Black Sea coast he played until 2019 and completed 104 KHL games. In August 2019 he moved to HK Sibir Novosibirsk within the KHL .

International

Jokipakka took part in the U20 Junior World Championship 2011 at the turn of the year 2010/11 and finished sixth there with the team. The defender made his debut for the Finnish national team at the 2015 World Cup , where he again finished sixth. In September 2016, he represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , but was eliminated with the team in the group stage.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2016/17 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2008/09 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun. SM-liiga 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - - -
2009/10 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun. SM-liiga 38 3 12 15th -20 77 5 1 0 1 +1 2
2010/11 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun. SM-liiga 3 0 0 0 -2 6th 2 0 0 0 -2 2
2010/11 Lempäälän Kisa Mestis 1 0 0 0 -2 0 - - - - - -
2010/11 Suomi U20 Mestis 6th 0 3 3 +1 2 - - - - - -
2010/11 Tampereen Ilves SM-liiga 48 1 8th 9 +5 18th 5 0 0 0 -4 2
2011/12 Tampereen Ilves U20 A-Jun. SM-liiga 1 0 1 1 +1 2 - - - - - -
2011/12 Lempäälän Kisa Mestis 3 1 0 1 +1 0 - - - - - -
2011/12 Tampereen Ilves SM-liiga 52 9 8th 17th -4 18th 5 1 0 2 2 -2 2
2012/13 Tampereen Ilves SM-liiga 59 5 13 18th -29 20th 5 1 0 0 0 -2 0
2013/14 Texas Stars AHL 68 5 16 21st +5 32 21st 0 5 5 +8 8th
2014/15 Texas Stars AHL 19th 3 2 5 -1 4th - - - - - -
2014/15 Dallas Stars NHL 51 0 10 10 -2 8th - - - - - -
2015/16 Dallas Stars NHL 40 2 4th 6th +1 6th - - - - - -
2015/16 Calgary Flames NHL 18th 0 6th 6th +3 8th - - - - - -
2016/17 Calgary Flames NHL 38 1 5 6th -3 12 - - - - - -
2016/17 Ottawa Senators NHL 3 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
A-Jun. SM-liiga total 46 3 13 16 87 7th 1 0 1 -1 4th
Mestis total 10 1 4th 5 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
SM-liiga total 159 15th 29 44 -28 56 15th 0 2 2 -8th 4th
NHL overall 150 3 25th 28 -2 34 - - - - - -

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2011 Finland U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 1 2 3 +5 4th
2015 Finland WM 6th place 8th 2 0 2 +2 2
2016 Finland World cup 8th place 2 0 0 0 -1 2
Men overall 10 2 0 2 +1 4th

( 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 : Jyrki Jokipakka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dallas Stars sign Jyrki Jokipakka to Three-Year entry level contract. stars.nhl.com, June 14, 2015, accessed August 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Dallas Stars Acquire Defenseman Kris Russell From Calgary Flames. stars.nhl.com, February 29, 2016, accessed February 29, 2016 .
  3. ^ Stars get Russell from Flames for two players, pick. nhl.com, February 29, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2016 .
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Squad of HK Sibir Novosibirsk in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Jokipakka, Jyrki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampere , Finland