Kari Jalonen

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Kari Jalonen
Date of birth January 6, 1960
place of birth Oulu , Finland
size 187 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
until 1982 Kärpät Oulu
1982-1983 Calgary Flames
1983-1984 Edmonton Oilers
1984 Kärpät Oulu
1984-1985 HIFK Helsinki
1985-1987 Kärpät Oulu
1987-1988 Skellefteå AIK
1988-1992 TPS Turku
1992-1993 Junkkarite HT Kalajoki
1993 TPS Turku
1993-1994 Kärpät Oulu
1994 Lukko Rauma
1994-1996 Rouen Hockey Elite 76
  Kari Jalonen
Coaching stations
1998-2003 TPS Turku
2004-2008 Kärpät Oulu
2008-2011 HIFK Helsinki
2011-2013 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013-2014 HC Lev Prague
2014-2016 Finland national team
2016-2020 SC Bern

Kari Jalonen (born January 6, 1960 in Oulu ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and coach , who played for the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League from 1978 to 1996 . He was the head coach of SC Bern until the end of January 2020 .

Career as a player

Kari Jalonen began his career as an ice hockey player at Kärpät Oulu , for which he was active in the SM-liiga from 1978 to 1982 and was Finnish champion for the first time in 1981 . He then moved as a free agent to the Calgary Flames , for which he ran up the following two seasons in the National Hockey League . He was also in three games in the 1983/84 season for the Edmonton Oilers on the ice. Jalonen returned to Kärpät during the same season. In the summer of 1984, the attacker received a one-year contract with their league rivals HIFK Helsinki . After its fulfillment, he played another two years for Kärpät before Jalonen was active for the first time in other European countries in the 1987/88 season when he played for Skellefteå AIK in the Swedish Elitserien .

In the summer of 1988 Jalonen signed a contract with the Finnish first division club TPS Turku , with whom he won four championships in the following five years - in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1993. After a season at Kärpät Oulu and Lukko Rauma in the SM-liiga, Jalonen ended his active career with a championship title and a runner-up in 1995 and 1996 at Rouen Hockey Elite 76 in the French Ligue Magnus .

International

For Finland Jalonen took part in the Junior World Championships in 1979 and 1980 , as well as the Men's World Championships in 1981 , 1982 , 1983 , 1986 , 1987 and 1989 .

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 3 37 9 6th 15th 4th
Playoffs 1 5 1 0 1 0

Career as a coach

After his playing career, Jalonen became an assistant coach at TPS Turku in 1998. After master trainer Hannu Jortikka resigned from TPS in 2001, Jalonen took over and looked after the team in the SM-liiga for two years . He was then signed by Kärpät Oulu in 2004 , with whom he was three times champion in 2005, 2007 and 2008 and one time third in 2006. He also reached the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup with the team in 2005 and 2006 , but both times his team was defeated by the Russian representatives HK Awangard Omsk and HK Dynamo Moscow . Due to his success, he was awarded the Kalevi Numminen trophy in 2005 and 2007 , which was awarded to the coach of the year in the SM-liiga.

Between summer 2008 and April 2011 Jalonen was the head coach at HIFK Helsinki and won the Finnish championship with the club in 2011. He was then committed by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod from the KHL and looked after it until the end of the 2012/13 season.

In October 2013 Jalonen became the new head coach of HC Lev Prague after his predecessor Vaclav Sykora asked for family reasons to be relieved of his duties.

From 2014 he was the head coach of the Finnish national team . Under his leadership, Finland won the silver medal at the 2016 World Cup , then his term of office ended in May 2016. Before that, in April 2016, SC Bern from the Swiss National League A (NLA) had announced that Jalonen had been appointed head coach. In 2017 he won his first title in Switzerland with the SCB. "... the trainer Kari Jalonen managed to get a group of excellent individualists to submit to his tactics and thus become almost insurmountable as a team", described the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Jalonen's share in winning the championship.

In the 2017/18 season, the SCB under Jalonen initially continued to determine the Swiss league and safely won the main round. In the playoffs, his team was eliminated in the semi-finals against Zurich (2-4 wins). In the 2018/19 game year, he led Bern to the second championship title of his tenure, after the SCB had again finished qualifying as first in the table. In October 2019 he extended his contract in Bern until 2021. At the end of January 2020, he was dismissed after the Bern team slipped to ninth place in the Swiss league. Under the leadership of the Finn, Bern had completed the main round ("qualification") of the Swiss league three times in a row as first in the table.

Achievements and Awards

As a trainer

Records

  • Most assists in one season ( SM-liiga ): 64 (1986/87)
  • Most points in one season (SM-liiga): 93 (1986/87)
  • Most playoff goals (SM-liiga): 38
  • Most playoff assists (SM-liiga): 77
  • Most playoff points (SM-liiga): 115

Web links

Commons : Kari Jalonen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ice Hockey News , New Head Coach at Lev Prague Kari Jalonen replaces Vaclav Sykora, who is now acting as co-trainer ( memento from October 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), October 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Marjamaki to take over. In: iihf.com. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Kari Jalonen new head coach. In: SCB Eishockey AG. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  4. ^ Daniel Germann: Ice hockey champions SC Bern: Everywhere one step ahead . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 17, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 18, 2017]).
  5. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/sport/der-sc-bern-wird-im-halbfinal-gegen-die-zsc-lions-zum-opfer-seines-erfolges-ld.1375415
  6. ^ Daniel Germann: National League: SC Bern crowns a great era . April 22, 2019, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 23, 2019]).
  7. ↑ https://www.srf.ch/sport/eishockey/national-league/hans-kossmann-uebernehmen-kari-jalonen-beim-sc-bern-entlaß
  8. ↑ Hans Kossmann replaces Kari Jalonen. In: SC Bern. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jalonen, Kari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oulu , Finland