Michael Keränen

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FinlandFinland  Michael Keränen Ice hockey player
Michael Keränen
Date of birth 4th January 1990
place of birth Stockholm , Sweden
size 185 cm
Weight 87 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2004-2007 Tappara
2007-2014 Tampereen Ilves
2014-2016 Iowa Wild
2016 Binghamton Senators
Jokerite
2016-2017 Tampereen Ilves
2017-2018 KooKoo
2018 Genève-Servette HC
2018-2019 Mora IK
since 2019 EHC Visp

Michael Keränen (born January 4, 1990 in Stockholm , Sweden ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with EHC Visp in the Swiss League since September 2019 .

Career

Keränen was at the beginning of his career between 2004 and 2007 for the junior teams of Tappara on the ice, before he moved to the 2007/08 season in the youth department of Tampereen Ilves . In the 2009/10 season he made his debut for the professional team in the SM-liiga and was used regularly in the top division in the following year , where he recorded a total of 11 scorer points from 42 games. In the following seasons he was able to increase his offensive performance annually and, following the 2013/14 season, was awarded the Lasse-Oksanen trophy as the best player in the main round and the golden helmet as the best player in the league overall with 17 hits and 35 assists . He also made his debut in the same year for the national team of his country and took part in the Euro Hockey Tour .

Keränen then received a contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League and moved to North America in the summer of 2014. There he was used exclusively for the Iowa Wild farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL) in the 2014/15 season and subsequently received a one-year contract extension. In November 2015, the Finn made his debut for Minnesota in the top division of North America against the Pittsburgh Penguins , but was subsequently transferred back to the AHL.

In February 2016, Keränen was given to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Conor Allen . This put him up to the end of the season with the Binghamton Senators in the AHL, before he decided to return home in April 2016 and signed a contract with Jokerit from the Continental Hockey League . At the end of November 2016 they parted "by mutual agreement", Keränen had completed 25 KHL missions for Jokerit. On December 6, 2016, Tampereen Ilves from the Finnish Liiga announced his commitment. He had once made his professional debut at the club.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Commons : Michael Keränen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wild.nhl.com Wild Inks Keranen To One-Year Deal
  2. ↑ thehockeywriters.com Signing Michael Keranen Nice First Step For Wild System
  3. ↑ wild.nhl.com Wild Reassigns Michael Keranen and Gustav Oloffson To Iowa Wild
  4. ↑ Michael Keränen Jokerien haaviin. jatkoaika.com, April 28, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016 (Finnish).
  5. ↑ Keränen ulos Jokereista . In: Jatkoaika.com - Kaikki jääkiekosta . ( jatkoaika.com [accessed November 30, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Michael Keränen palaa Ilvekseen. (No longer available online.) Ilves, archived from the original on December 9, 2016 ; Retrieved December 8, 2016 (Finnish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ilves.com
personal data
SURNAME Keränen, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keranen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden