Mikko Mänenpää

Finland Mikko Mänenpää


Date of birth	April 19, 1983
place of birth	Tampere , Finland
size	178 cm
Weight	79 kg

position	defender
number	# 7
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

until 2002	Tappara Tampere
2002-2005	JYP Jyväskylä
2005	Pelicans Lahti
2005-2006	Mikkelin Jukurit
2006-2010	HPK Hämeenlinna
2010-2011	Frölunda HC
2011–2012	Amur Khabarovsk
2012-2013	HK CSKA Moscow
2013-2014	HC Lev Prague
2014-2015	JYP Jyväskylä
2015-2017	HC Ambrì-Piotta
since 2017	JYP Jyväskylä

Mikko Ville Kalevi Mänenpää (born April 19, 1983 in Tampere ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with JYP Jyväskylä in the Finnish Liiga since 2017 .

Career

Mikko Mänenpää started his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Tappara Tampere , where he was active until 2002. The defender then moved to JYP Jyväskylä , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga , the top Finnish division, in the 2002/03 season . In nine games he stayed without points and received four penalty minutes. In the following years he was regularly used for JYP in the SM-liiga and also played six games as a loan player in the second-rate Mestis for Vaasan Sport and Mikkelin Jukurit . After he had started the 2004/05 season at JYP Jyväskylä, he moved to their league rivals Pelicans Lahti in January 2005 , for whom he prepared two goals in 32 games by the end of the season.

Mikko Mänenpää in the HPK Hämeenlinna jersey , January 2008

The entire 2005/06 season spent Mäepää with his ex-club Mikkelin Jukurit in the Mestis, whose championship he won with his team. He then received a contract with HPK Hämeenlinna in the SM-liiga, in which he scored 45 scorer points in a total of 61 games in the 2006/07 season , including 17 goals, and had a large share in his team's third place in the playoffs. Due to his good performance, he was elected to the All-Star Team of the SM-liiga for the first time this season. In June 2007, the left-handed shooter signed a contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets from the National Hockey League , but played exclusively for their farm team Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League , where he prepared two goals in seven games. In November 2007 he returned to HPK Hämeenlinna in the Finnish SM-liiga, but ended the 2007/08 season at Skellefteå AIK in the Swedish Elitserien .

Mänenpää played again for HPK Hämeenlinna in the SM-liiga from 2008 to 2010 and was runner-up with his team in the 2009/10 season . In addition, he was elected to the All-Star Team of the SM-liiga himself this season. The Finnish international spent the 2010/11 season at Frölunda HC in the Elitserien. For the Swedes he scored eight goals and ten assists in 46 games. In preparation for the season, he also appeared in the European Trophy seven times for Frölunda . For the 2011/12 season he was committed by Amur Khabarovsk from the Continental Hockey League . He played 55 KHL games for Amur before moving to HK CSKA Moscow in July 2012 . He was also only active for CSKA for a few months, since he moved to HC Lev Prague in January 2013 within the KHL . In June 2013, his contract with HC Lev was extended by two years and Mäenpää reached the KHL play-off final with the club in 2014.

In August 2014, he returned to JYP after HC Lev Prague withdrew from the KHL game. With JYP, he finished third at the end of the 2014/15 season. He was then signed by the Swiss club Ambrì-Piotta from the National League A in July 2015 . In the following two years Mäepää played for the club from Ticino and scored 12 goals and 54 assists in 88 NLA games. In 2016 he was elected to the National League's Media All-Star Team . After the end of the 2016/17 season, he decided to return to Finland and was signed by JYP for three years. In 2018 he won the Champions Hockey League with JYP .

International

For Finland Mäenpää took part in the junior division at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2001 , where he won the bronze medal with his team. In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2010 and 2012 World Championships and at the Euro Hockey Tour in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

2006 Master of Mestis with Mikkelin Jukurit

2007 SM-liiga All-Star Team

2010 Finnish runner-up with HPK Hämeenlinna

2010 SM-liiga All-Star Team

2012 KHL All-Star Game

2016 National League A Media All-Star Team

2018 Champions Hockey League win with JYP Jyväskylä

International

2001 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

			Regular season					Play-offs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	JYP Jyväskylä	SM-liiga	9	0	0	0	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	JYP Jyväskylä	SM-liiga	40	0	2	2	44	2	0	0	0	2
2003/04	Sports Vaasa	Mestis	2	1	0	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	JYP Jyväskylä	SM-liiga	14th	0	1	1	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Pelicans Lahti	SM-liiga	27	0	2	2	10	-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Jukurit Mikkeli	Mestis	4th	0	2	2	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Jukurit Mikkeli	Mestis	40	6th	10	16	75	6th	2	1	3	2
2006/07	HPK Hämeenlinna	SM-liiga	52	14th	26th	40	48	9	3	2	5	10
2007/08	Syracuse crunch	AHL	7th	0	2	2	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HPK Hämeenlinna	SM-liiga	13	3	2	5	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien	11	3	4th	7th	12	5	0	1	1	25th
2008/09	HPK Hämeenlinna	SM-liiga	58	11	36	47	40	6th	1	1	2	6th
2009/10	HPK Hämeenlinna	SM-liiga	43	12	18th	30th	72	17th	5	4th	9	26th
2010/11	Frölunda HC	Elitserien	46	8th	10	18th	46	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL	51	14th	22nd	36	58	4th	0	2	2	4th
2012/13	HK CSKA Moscow	KHL	29	2	2	4th	8th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Lev Prague	KHL	3	1	1	2	0	4th	1	1	2	2
2013/14	HC Lev Prague	KHL	31	0	12	12	10	22nd	2	9	11	6th
2014/15	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga	19th	3	12	15th	26th	12	2	6th	8th	6th
2015/16	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NLA	46	6th	31	37	16	3	0	1	1	0
2016/17	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NLA	34	4th	20th	24	24	5	2	2	4th	16
2017/18	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga	45	4th	23	27	32	6th	2	1	3	4th

International

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	result
2001	Finland	U18 World Cup	6th	0	1	1	+2	4th	Bronze medal
2010	Finland	WM	7th	0	1	1	−4	2	Rank 6
2012	Finland	WM	10	1	4th	5	−1	6th	4th place

( 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

Commons : Mikko Mänenpää - collection of images, videos and audio files

Mikko Mänenpää at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Jyp Jyväskylä: Mikko Mypenpää signs three-year contract with JYP. In: swisshockeynews.ch. April 21, 2017, accessed August 30, 2017 .

Squad of JYP Jyvaskyla in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Maenpää, Mikko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maenpaa, Mikko (English spelling); Mänenpää, Mikko Ville Kalevi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tampere , Finland

[swisshoc-299296-1] Jyp Jyväskylä: Mikko Mypenpää signs three-year contract with JYP. In: swisshockeynews.ch. April 21, 2017, accessed August 30, 2017 .