Niki Sirén

Niki Sirén
Date of birth	5th February 1976
place of birth	Kouvola , Finland
size	187 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	defender
number	# 25
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1994	SC Rapperswil-Jona
1994-1996	KooKoo Kouvola
1996-2000	University of Wisconsin – Madison
2000-2001	Tappara Tampere
2001-2002	Pelicans Lahti
2002-2005	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
2005-2007	SCL Tigers
2007–2012	Rapperswil-Jona Lakers

Niki Sirén (born February 5, 1976 in Kouvola ) is a Swiss - Finnish ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in the Swiss National League A.

Career

Sirén began his career in the junior division of SC Rapperswil-Jona . In 1994 he moved to KooKoo Kouvola in his hometown of Kouvola in Finland . He first played in the junior team and was then promoted to the men's team, which played in the Mestis , the second highest Finnish league. In 1996 he moved to the University of Wisconsin – Madison ice hockey team and played with them in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association . In 1998 the Wisconsin Badgers won the WCHA championship with Sirén.

In 2000 Sirén returned to Finland and signed a contract with Tappara Tampere . With his new team he reached second place in the SM-liiga at the end of the 2000/01 season . On the 2001/02 season , Niki Sirén moved to the Pelicans Lahti . For the 2002/03 season , the striker returned to Switzerland to join his junior club, which had since been renamed Rapperswil-Jona Lakers. After three years playing for the Lakers, Niki Sirén was signed by the SCL Tigers .

Between 2005 and 2007 he played for the SCL Tigers in the NLA, who missed the play-offs in these two game years before he decided to return to his home club, the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers. With the Lakers, Sirén reached the play-offs in the 2007/08 season , but was eliminated in the first round with 1: 4 against HC Servette Genève . A year later , the Lakers missed the play-offs and instead had to compete in the play-outs, in which they prevailed 4-2 against HC Ambrì-Piotta and thus avoided relegation.

After changing coach from Igor Pavlov to Harry Rogenmoser in the 2011/12 season , he was retrained from center to defender at the age of 35.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Wisconsin – Madison
• 2001 Finnish runner-up with Tappara Tampere

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
SM liiga main round	2	101	6th	2	8th	69
SM liiga playoffs	2	14th	1	1	2	4th
NLA main round	9	377	58	92	150	286
NLA playoffs	3	15th	3	2	5	10
WCHA	4th	139	15th	22nd	37	70

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Niki Sirén at hockeydb.com (English)
• Niki Sirén at eurohockey.com
• Niki Sirén at hockeyfans.ch
• Niki Sirén at eliteprospects.com (English)