Mari Saarinen

Mari Saarinen
Date of birth	July 30, 1981
place of birth	Kangasala , Finland
size	172 cm
Weight	66 kg
position	Striker / Defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1998-2015	Ilves Tampere

Mari Susanna Saarinen (born July 30, 1981 in Kangasala ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach , who spent her entire career with Ilves Tampere and won the Finnish championship twice with the team .

Career

At Ilves Tampere

In the Naisten SM-sarja , Saarinen played for Ilves Tampere from 1998 . With this team she won the Finnish championship in 2006 and 2010 and was runner-up several times. In addition, she won the IIHF European Women Champions Cup with Ilves in 2011 and was captain of the women's team between 2007 and 2011 .

In 2012 she ended her playing career and in 2014 she became assistant coach of the Ilves women's team. In the play-offs of the 2014/15 season , she returned to the ice.

Saarinen has been the head coach of the women's team since 2016.

International

Saarinen played for many years in the Finnish women's ice hockey team , with whom she took part in the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , 2008 and 2009 World Championships . In 2010 she won the Olympic bronze medal and three other bronze medals at world championships.

Achievements and Awards

2004 Finnish runner-up with Ilves Tampere 2005 Finnish runner-up with Ilves Tampere 2006 Finnish champion with Ilves Tampere 2008 Finnish runner-up with Ilves Tampere 2009 Finnish runner-up with Ilves Tampere

2010 Finnish champion with Ilves Tampere 2011 IIHF European Women Champions Cup win with Ilves Tampere 2011 Finnish runner-up with Ilves Tampere 2012 Finnish runner-up with Ilves Tampere

International

• 2004 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2008 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2009 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2010 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Career statistics

( 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 )

Club competitions

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	Ilves	SM-sarja		22nd	2	0	2	2		1	0	0	0	0
1999/00	Ilves	SM-sarja		26th	14th	9	23	8th		6th	1	3	4th	2
2000/01	Ilves	SM-sarja		26th	11	13	24	6th		5	2	0	2	0
2001/02	Ilves	SM-sarja		24	5	8th	13	14th		8th	6th	3	9	8th
2002/03	Ilves	SM-sarja		24	12	10	22nd	12		6th	2	1	3	6th
2003/04	Ilves	SM-sarja		24	14th	19th	33	20th		7th	1	2	3	2
2004/05	Ilves	SM-sarja		20th	13	8th	21st	18th		5	1	0	1	4th
2005/06	Ilves	SM-sarja		21st	12	9	21st	22nd		7th	5	1	6th	4th
2006/07	Ilves	SM-sarja		22nd	6th	21st	27	38		6th	3	1	4th	6th
2007/08	Ilves	SM-sarja		20th	28	26th	54	18th		8th	3	5	8th	8th
2008/09	Ilves	SM-sarja		21st	13	18th	31	26th		7th	0	3	3	8th
2009/10	Ilves	SM-sarja		17th	15th	10	25th	14th		10	2	5	7th	10
2009/10	Suomi NMJ	Jr. C SM-sarja		13	5	1	6th	6th
2010/11	Ilves	SM-sarja		19th	3	6th	9	22nd		8th	2	3	5	14th
2011/12	Ilves	SM-sarja		29	10	23	33	24		8th	1	1	2	10
2014/15	Ilves	SM-sarja		-	-	-	-	-		8th	0	0	0	6th
SM-Sarja overall				315	158	180	338	244		100	29	28	57	88

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2001	Finland	WM		5	0	1	1	4th	-3
2004	Finland	WM		5	2	1	3	0	+2
2005	Finland	WM		5	0	0	0	4th	-4
2006	Finland	Olympia		5	1	1	2	4th	-5
2007	Finland	WM		5	0	2	2	6th	+2
2008	Finland	WM		5	3	2	5	6th	+4
2009	Finland	WM		5	1	1	2	4th	-1
2010	Finland	Olympia		5	0	1	1	2	+2

Web links

• Mari Saarinen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Mari Saarinen at eurohockey.com
• Mari Saarinen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ internationalhockey.net, Women's SM-liiga 2006/07
2. ↑ Ilveksen naiset takaisin Suomen huipulle Mari Saarisen johdolla. In: aamulehti.fi. September 9, 2016, accessed February 5, 2019 (Finnish).