Martti Järventie

Martti Järventie
Date of birth	April 4th 1976
place of birth	Tampere , Finland
size	180 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2001 , 4th lap, 109th position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1994-2000	Ilves Tampere
2000-2001	TPS Turku
2001-2002	Québec Citadelles
2002-2003	Ilves Tampere
2002-2007	Jokerit Helsinki
2007-2008	Mora IK
2008-2009	Kärpät Oulu
2009-2011	Helsingfors IFK
2011-2015	Ilves Tampere
2015	HPK Hämeenlinna
2015-2016	Milton Keynes Lightning

Martti Järventie (born April 4, 1976 in Tampere ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who has played in the course of his active career for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League .

Career

Martti Järventie began his career as a hockey player with Ilves Tampere , for whom he played in the SM-liiga from 1994 to 2000 . In the 1995/96 season he was also in 16 games for their league rivals Lukko Rauma on the ice. After the 2000/01 season , in which the defender was under contract with TPS Turku , he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2001 in the fourth round as a total of 109th player by the Canadiens de Montréal , for which he was selected in the following season played a game and otherwise ran up in the American Hockey League for their farm team , the Québec Citadelles . Then Järventie returned to his Finnish homeland, where he was initially under contract with his ex-club Ilves Tampere in the 2002/03 season, before he was active for Jokerit Helsinki until the summer of 2007 .

In the 2007/08 season Järventie played for the second time in his career abroad when he was active for Mora IK from the Swedish Elitserien . After the season he returned to Finland, where he received a contract with the reigning champions Kärpät Oulu , with whom he was runner-up in the 2008/09 season. He then left Oulu again and was signed by Helsingfors IFK , with whom he won the Finnish championship in 2011 . For the 2011/12 season he returned to his ex-club Ilves Tampere.

He ended his active career in the 2015/16 season with league rivals HPK Hämeenlinna and the British club Milton Keynes Lightning with play in the English Premier Ice Hockey League .

International

For Finland Järventie took part in the Junior World Championships in 1995 and 1996 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2007 Matti Keinonen Trophy
• 2009 Finnish runner-up with Kärpät Oulu
• 2011 Finnish champion with Helsingfors IFK

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	1	0	0	0	0
AHL regular season	1	59	7th	14th	21st	18th
Elitserien main round	1	39	5	11	16	50
Elitserien playdowns	1	10	1	2	3	12
Liiga main round	20th	845	75	199	274	1069
Liiga playoffs	15th	121	9	26th	35	112

Web links

• Martti Järventie at hockeydb.com (English)
• Martti Järventie at eliteprospects.com (English)