Matti Kuparinen
 Matti Kuparinen 
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| Date of birth | October 16, 1984 |
| place of birth | Pori , Finland |
| size | 181 cm |
| Weight | 91 kg |
| position | center |
| Shot hand | Right |
| Career stations | |
| 2003-2011 | Ässät Pori |
| 2011–2012 | KalPa Kuopio |
| 2012-2013 | HK Awangard Omsk |
| 2013-2015 | HIFK Helsinki |
| 2015-2018 | Ässät Pori |
| 2018-2019 | HC Bolzano |
Matti Kuparinen (born October 16, 1984 in Pori ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who was last under contract with HC Bozen in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League . Zuivor was active for many years in the Finnish Liiga , where he played for Ässät Pori , HIFK Helsinki and KalPa Kuopio, among others .
Career
Matti Kuparinen began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Ässät Pori , for whose professional team he was active from 2003 to 2011 in the SM-liiga , the top Finnish league. With Ässät Pori he reached the playoff final in the SM-liiga in the 2005/06 season , but failed in this due to HPK Hämeenlinna . From 2007 to 2011 the center was team captain at Ässät.
For the 2011/12 season, Kuparinen moved within the SM-liiga to KalPa Kuopio . There he began the following season before he was committed in October 2012 by HK Awangard Omsk from the Continental Hockey League for two years. For Omsk he completed 42 KHL games in which he only scored eight points. Therefore, his contract was terminated prematurely in July 2013 and Kuparinen then moved to HIFK Helsinki . After two seasons there, the attacker returned to his home club Ässät in April 2015 and was team captain there in the following years.
In the early summer of 2018 he left Pori and moved to HC Bozen in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga after playing in a row with Marco Insam the year before , who had also returned to HCB. He ended his career in September 2019.
International
For Finland , Kuparinen took part in the Euro Hockey Tour in 2012 .
Achievements and Awards
- 2011 SM-liiga player of the month October
Career statistics
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 1999/00 | Porin Ässät U16 | Jr. C SM-sarja | 10 | 5 | 7th | 12 | 30th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000/01 | Porin Ässät U18 | Jr. B SM-sarja | 35 | 5 | 16 | 21st | 90 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2000/01 | Porin Ässät U20 | Jr. A I-divisioona | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2001/02 | Porin Ässät U18 | Jr. B SM-sarja | 24 | 5 | 13 | 18th | 94 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 2001/02 | Porin Ässät U20 | Jr. A I-divisioona | 11 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 31 | 7th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4th | ||
| 2002/03 | Porin Ässät U20 | Jr. A SM liiga | 34 | 8th | 7th | 15th | 87 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003/04 | Porin Ässät U20 | Jr. A SM liiga | 20th | 6th | 15th | 21st | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003/04 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 36 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2003/04 | Suomi U20 | Mestis | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2004/05 | Porin Ässät U20 | Jr. A SM liiga | 17th | 4th | 10 | 14th | 67 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2004/05 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 25th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2005/06 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 56 | 4th | 9 | 13 | 54 | 14th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 6th | ||
| 2006/07 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 54 | 5 | 16 | 21st | 137 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2007/08 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 52 | 2 | 14th | 16 | 93 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2008/09 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 49 | 13 | 15th | 28 | 62 | 14th | 3 | 6th | 9 | 6th | ||
| 2009/10 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 32 | 5 | 16 | 21st | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2010/11 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 60 | 11 | 26th | 37 | 52 | 6th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 18th | ||
| 2011/12 | KalPa | Liiga | 55 | 10 | 33 | 43 | 75 | 7th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | ||
| 2012/13 | KalPa | Liiga | 8th | 2 | 5 | 7th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2012/13 | Avangard Omsk | KHL | 30th | 3 | 5 | 8th | 36 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
| 2013/14 | HIFK | Liiga | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2014/15 | HIFK | Liiga | 48 | 8th | 8th | 16 | 59 | 8th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2015/16 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 24 | 2 | 6th | 8th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2016/17 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 49 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 59 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2017/18 | Porin Ässät | Liiga | 56 | 5 | 16 | 21st | 26th | 6th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 0 | ||
| 2018/19 | HC Bolzano | EBEL | 53 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Liiga overall | 616 | 74 | 179 | 253 | 711 | 59 | 11 | 17th | 28 | 38 | ||||
( 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 )
Web links
- Matti Kuparinen at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Finland to Bozen - the captain of Porin Ässät Matti Kuparinen follows Insam to Talferstadt. In: eishockey-magazin.de. June 16, 2018, accessed June 20, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kuparinen, Matti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pori , Finland |