Matti Alatalo

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Matti Alatalo
Coaching stations
1995-2000 ZSC Lions (Ass.)
2000-2002 GCK Lions
2002-2007 JYP Jyväskylä
2007-2008 HPK
2008-2009 Oulun Kärpät
2011-2017 GCK Lions
since 2017 EHC Visp

Matti Alatalo (born October 29, 1958 in Oulu ) is a Finnish ice hockey coach. He has been the head coach of the Swiss second division EHC Visp since 2017 .

His son Santeri Alatalo is a professional ice hockey player .

Career

Alatalo completed a sports degree and worked as an assistant coach for the Cornell University ice hockey team in the late 1980s .

In the early 1990s he was the team manager of the Finnish first division club Tappara , and in the 1994/95 season he held the same position at EC Klagenfurt AC in Austria.

In 1995 he became the assistant coach of the ZSC Lions in the Swiss National League A (NLA) and won the championship title with the Lions in his last season (1999/2000) in Zurich alongside head coach Kent Ruhnke . Afterwards, Alatalo was head coach of the Zurich farm team GC Küsnacht Lions in the National League B (NLB) for two years .

He then returned to Finland, worked for five years as the head coach of the first division team JYP Jyväskylä (2002-2007), looked after the season competitor HPK in the 2007/08 season and, from 2008, another Finnish first division team, Oulun Kärpät, as head coach. In December 2009 they separated.

Alatalo started his second term in 2011 as head coach at the GC Küsnacht Lions. After the end of the 2016/17 season, he moved within the NLB to EHC Visp .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A mood of optimism in Zurich North. In: derbund.ch/. Retrieved April 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Matti Alatalo jättää Oulun Kärpät. In: Ilta-Sanomat. December 22, 2009, accessed April 1, 2016 (fi-FI).
  3. ↑ Matti Alatalo: The enthusiasm in the eyes. In: grasshopper-club.ch. December 21, 2015, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ EHC Visp Sport AG: Matti Alatalo becomes head coach of the EHC Visp. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Alatalo, Matti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Oulu