Olli Määttä

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FinlandFinland  Olli Määttä Ice hockey player
Olli Määttä
Date of birth August 22, 1994
place of birth Jyväskylä , Finland
size 188 cm
Weight 94 kg
position defender
number # 6
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2011 , 4th round, 85th position
SKA Saint Petersburg
NHL Entry Draft 2012 , 1st round, 22nd position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
until 2011 JYP Jyväskylä
2010-2011 D team
2011-2013 London Knights
2013-2019 Pittsburgh Penguins
since 2019 Chicago Blackhawks

Olli Määttä (born August 22, 1994 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League since June 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender . With the Pittsburgh Penguins , with which Määttä was under contract from 2013 to 2019, he won the Stanley Cup in 2016 and 2017 .

Career

Määttä in the Pittsburgh Penguins jersey

Määttä started his career in his hometown Jyväskylä , where he played in the youth department of JYP Jyväskylä . He went through numerous age groups of the club and was already used at the age of 15 for the U18 and U20 selection. Before that, he was able to collect 22 scorer points from 21 games for the U16 team, making him the team's most successful defender.

After starting the 2010/11 season with the U20 selection in the Junior-A-SM-liiga, Määttä signed his first professional contract at the age of 16. He then switched to the D Team , the JYP Jyväskylä farm team , in the Mestis . In 23 games in the second highest Finnish division, Määttä recorded a plus / minus balance of +14, the highest of his team.

In the 2011 CHL Import Draft he was selected as the overall first by the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League and then moved to North America. In the 2011/12 season, Määttä scored five goals and 27 assists. With 32 scorer points, he was the most successful rookie defender and was appointed to the OHL's First All-Rookie Team. After the London Knights had already completed the regular season as the team with the highest points, the team also prevailed in the play-offs and won the J. Ross Robertson Cup . With 23 points from 19 games, Määttä was the top defender in the play-offs.

Määttä in the jersey of the Chicago Blackhawks

In the 2012 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the first round in 22nd place by the Pittsburgh Penguins . On September 12, 2012, the defender then signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Penguins.

Määttä, however, returned to London for the 2012/13 season and was able to improve his performance again in contrast to the previous season. With 38 scorer points, he finished the season again as the best point defender of the Knights. Finally, he was able to defend the OHL title in the play-offs with the team and won his second J. Ross Robertson Cup. After leaving the subsequent Memorial Cup tournament, Määttä played three play-off games for the Penguins' farm team, the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , in the American Hockey League .

For the 2013/14 NHL season , Määttä was able to establish himself straight away in the Pittsburgh Penguins squad and played his first NHL game on October 3, 2013 at the season opener against the New Jersey Devils . Five days later, the defender scored his first two assists in the game against the Carolina Hurricanes before scoring his first goal in the eighth NHL game on October 19. In the 2015/16 season he won the Stanley Cup with the Penguins and was able to repeat this success the following year. After six seasons in the Penguins' jersey, the Finn was transferred to the Chicago Blackhawks in June 2019 together with a five-round vote in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Dominik Kahun .

International

Olli Määttä represented Finland for the first time at the U16 level and was then nominated for his first international tournament for the 2011 U18 World Junior Championship . His plus / minus balance of +4 was the team's best. At the U20 Junior World Championship in the same year he was by far the youngest player in the Finns' squad and remained unpunished in six games.

Määttä was also part of the Finns' squad at the U20 Junior World Championships in 2012 and 2013 , scoring three points in five games in 2013. At the 2014 Winter Olympics , he won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team. He was the most successful defender of his team with three goals and five scorer points.

In addition, he represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , but was eliminated with the team in the group stage.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2009/10 JYP Jyväskylä U20 Junior A - - - - - 1 1 0 1 1 0
2010/11 JYP Jyväskylä U20 Junior A 19th 2 6th 8th 8th 12 1 4th 5 6th
2010/11 D team Mestis 23 1 5 6th 6th - - - - -
2010/11 Finland U20 Mestis 2 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
2011/12 London Knights OHL 58 5 27 32 25th 19th 6th 17th 23 2
2012/13 London Knights OHL 57 8th 30th 38 30th 21st 4th 10 14th 8th
2012/13 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL - - - - - 3 0 0 0 0
2013/14 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 78 9 20th 29 14th 13 0 4th 4th 0
2014/15 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 20th 1 8th 9 10 - - - - -
2015/16 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 67 6th 13 19th 22nd 18th 0 7th 7th 4th
2016/17 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 55 1 6th 7th 12 25th 2 6th 8th 12
2017/18 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 60 1 13 14th 12 1 0 0 0 0
2018/19 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 82 7th 22nd 29 28 12 0 2 2 4th
Mestis total 25th 1 7th 8th 8th - - - - -
OHL total 115 13 57 70 55 40 10 27 37 10
NHL overall 362 25th 82 107 98 69 2 19th 21st 20th

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2010 Finland Hlinka Memorial 7th place 4th 0 1 1 4th
2011 Finland U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 0 0 0 0
2011 Finland U18 World Cup 5th place 6th 1 3 4th 0
2012 Finland U20 World Cup 4th Place 1 0 0 0 0
2013 Finland U20 World Cup 7th place 5 1 2 3 2
2014 Finland Olympia 2nd place, silver 6th 3 2 5 0
2016 Finland World cup 8th place 3 0 0 0 0
Juniors overall 22nd 2 6th 8th 6th
Men overall 9 3 2 5 0

( 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 : Olli Määttä  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Penguins Sign 2012 First-Round Draft Picks Derrick Pouliot and Olli Maatta , Pittsburgh Penguins, September 12, 2012
Squad of the Chicago Blackhawks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Määttä, Olli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maatta, Olli (English spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä