Let Pirjetä

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FinlandFinland  Let Pirjetä Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 4th 1974
place of birth Haukipudas , Finland
size 191 cm
Weight 103 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2002 , 5th lap, 133rd position
Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
until 1991 Kärpät Oulu
1991-1992 Tacoma Rockets
1992-1993 Kärpät Oulu
1993-1996 TPS Turku
1996-1997 Västra Frölunda
1997-1999 Tappara Tampere
1999-2001 HIFK Helsinki
2001-2002 Kärpät Oulu
2002-2004 Columbus Blue Jackets
2004-2006 Pittsburgh Penguins
2004-2005 HIFK Helsinki
2006 Kloten Flyers
2006-2008 Malmo Redhawks
2008-2009 Pelicans Lahti

Lasse Pirjetä (born April 4, 1974 in Haukipudas ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who played for the Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League from 1989 to 2009 .

Career

Lasse Pirjetä began his career as an ice hockey player at Kärpät Oulu , for whose professional team he made his debut in the then second-class I divisioona at the beginning of the 1991/92 season. However, he spent the rest of the season with the Tacoma Rockets in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . The center then returned to Oulu, where he played for Kärpät for another year in the Finnish second division before moving to TPS Turku in the SM-liiga . With TPS he was runner-up in 1994 and 1996 and was able to win the Finnish championship in the 1994/95 season .

Pirjetä spent the 1996/97 season at Västra Frölunda in the Swedish Elitserien . For Frölunda he scored a total of 23 scorer points in 53 games . After only one year he left the club and was under contract with Tappara Tampere , HIFK Helsinki and Kärpät Oulu in the SM-liiga for the next five years . 2002 Pirjetä was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in the fifth round as a total of 133rd player from the Columbus Blue Jackets . With these he was able to fight for a regular place in the National Hockey League before he was given to the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 9, 2004 in exchange for Brian Holzinger . There he was under contract for almost two years, although the 2004/05 season was canceled due to a lockout and he spent it at his ex-club HIFK Helsinki in his Finnish homeland.

After starting the 2005/06 season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the former Finnish international moved to Kloten Flyers in the Swiss National League A on January 20, 2006 . With the Flyers he reached the playoff semi-finals , in which the Flyers were defeated by HC Lugano 1: 4. In the summer of 2006 Pirjetä left the club again and joined the Malmö Redhawks from the Elitserien, with whom he was relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division, at the end of the 2006/07 season. In the 2007/08 season he only made 14 missions due to injury. After the end of the season he returned to Finland and received a contract with the Pelicans Lahti , where he ended his career at the age of 35 following the 2008/09 season .

International

For Finland , Pirjetä only took part in the junior European championship in 1992. In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in 2002 , 2003 and 2004 , and in 2004 and 2005 at the Euro Hockey Tour . Overall, he scored four goals in 24 games in international matches for Finland, which took place in official tournaments and gave one template.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1991-92 Kärpät I-divisioona 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1991-92 Tacoma Rockets WHL 16 5 2 7th 4th - - - - -
1992-93 Kärpät I-divisioona 20th 4th 3 7th 6th - - - - -
1993-94 TPS SM-liiga 43 9 9 18th 14th 11 4th 0 4th 2
1994-95 TPS SM-liiga 49 7th 13 20th 64 8th 0 1 1 29
1995-96 TPS SM-liiga 45 13 14th 27 34 11 6th 3 9 4th
1996-97 Frölunda HC Elitserien 50 14th 8th 22nd 36 3 0 1 1 4th
1997-98 Tappara SM-liiga 48 24 22nd 46 20th 4th 1 1 2 2
1998-99 Tappara SM-liiga 54 22nd 19th 41 32 - - - - -
1999-00 HIFK SM-liiga 54 18th 25th 43 24 9 2 3 5 10
2000-01 HIFK SM-liiga 56 15th 18th 33 20th - - - - -
2001-02 Kärpät SM-liiga 55 15th 26th 41 24 4th 2 2 4th 2
2002-03 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 51 11 10 21st 12 - - - - -
2003-04 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 57 2 8th 10 20th - - - - -
2003-04 Syracuse crunch AHL 5 1 2 3 2 - - - - -
2003-04 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 13 6th 6th 12 0 - - - - -
2004-05 HIFK SM-liiga 45 16 20th 36 26th 5 2 0 2 2
2005-06 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 25th 4th 3 7th 18th - - - - -
2005-06 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 8th 1 4th 5 6th - - - - -
2005-06 Kloten Flyers NLA 7th 1 2 3 2 9 0 2 2 2
2006-07 Malmo Redhawks Elitserien 54 10 16 26th 44 - - - - -
2007-08 Malmo Redhawks Allsvenskan 4th 4th 2 6th 2 10 3 5 8th 6th
2008-09 Pelicans SM-liiga 7th 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
NHL overall 146 23 27 50 50 - - - - -
SM-liiga total 456 139 167 306 262 52 17th 10 27 51
Elitserien total 104 24 24 48 80 3 0 1 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Pirjetä, Lasse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirjeta, Lasse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Haukipudas , Finland