Pekka Tuokkola

Pekka Tuokkola
Date of birth	October 22, 1983
place of birth	Alavus , Finland
size	185 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 83
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 2006	Tappara Tampere
2006-2011	JYP Jyväskylä
2011–2012	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2012	Tappara Tampere
2013-2014	KalPa
2014	Färjestad BK
2014-2016	EC KAC
2016-2017	JYP Jyväskylä
2017	Vienna Capitals
2017	KeuPa HT
2017-2018	HC Bolzano
2018	JYP Jyväskylä
since 2018	Lukko

Pekka Tuokkola (born October 22, 1983 in Alavus ) is a Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with Rauman Lukko since December 2018 .

Career

Pekka Tuokkola began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Tappara Tampere , where he went through all ages from the U16. The goalkeeper made four appearances in the SM-liiga for the professional team of Tappara from 2004 to 2006 . In addition, he was active in his time at Tappara as a loan player for Ahmat Hyvinkää , Hokki Kajaani , Kiekko-Vantaa and Haukat in the second-rate Mestis .

For the 2006/07 season he signed a contract with JYP Jyväskylä . His greatest success with JYP Jyväskylä was the surprising win of the Finnish championship title in the 2008/09 season , which was the greatest success in the club's history for JYP. This season Tuokkola shared the JYP goal with fellow countryman Sinuhe Wallinheimo . In the main round he conceded an average of 1.96 per game in his 27 appearances and a catch rate of 92.6 percent. In the playoffs he was even able to increase his catch rate to 95.4 percent and reduce his goalscoring average to 1.19 goals per game. Because of these achievements, he and Wallinheimo then received the Jari Kurri Trophy as Most Valuable Player in the SM liiga playoffs. He was also able to convince in the following season and with 2.08 goals conceded per game had the lowest average of all goalkeepers in the SM-liiga in the main round. Even during his time at JYP he continued to play occasionally in the second division, where he played for SaPKo Savonlinna and the D Team - JYP's farm team.

Pekka Tuokkola in the jersey of the EC KAC (2014)

In April 2011 he was signed by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod from the Continental Hockey League and completed 21 KHL games for Torpedo in the following season before he returned to Finland in May 2012 and was signed by his hometown club Tappara. At Tappara he only received a few assignments as a back-up from Juha Metsola , so that he was loaned to LeKi in November 2012 and handed over to KalPa Kuopio in January 2013 .

In January 2014 Tuokkola moved to the Swedish club Färjestad BK in the Svenska Hockeyligan .

From May 2014 he was under contract in the EBEL at the EC KAC from Klagenfurt . In July 2016 his move back to JYP Jyväskylä became known.

On October 7, 2017, he signed a contract with Vienna Capitals because their regular goalie Jean-Philippe Lamoureux was injured.

International

For Finland Tuokkola has only stood between the posts in 2010 at a Euro Hockey Tour game .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Finnish champion with JYP Jyväskylä
• 2009 Jari Kurri Trophy (together with Sinuhe Wallinheimo )
• 2018 EBEL winner with HC Bozen

Career statistics

				Regular season				Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	ATM	SV%		Sp	ATM	SV%
1999/00	Tappara U16	Jr. C SM-sarja		-	-	-		-	-	-
2000/01	Tappara U18	Jr. B SM-sarja		-	-	-		-	-	-
2000/01	Tappara U20	Jr. A SM liiga		-	-	-		-	-	-
2001/02	Tappara U20	Jr. A SM liiga		2	1.80	94.0		1	6.00	84.4
2002/03	Tappara U20	Jr. A SM liiga		21st	2.65	90.8		8th	2.92	91.7
2002/03	Tappara	Liiga		0	-	-		-	-	-
2003/04	Tappara U20	Jr. A SM liiga		27	1.89	93.9		12	2.05	93.2
2003/04	Tappara	Liiga		0	-	-		-	-	-
2003/04	Ahmat Hyvinkää	Mestis		5	4.56	87.4		-	-	-
2004/05	Tappara	Liiga		2	1.85	92.9		-	-	-
2004/05	Kajaanin Hokki	Mestis		11	3.42	89.4		-	-	-
2005/06	Tappara	Liiga		2	3.37	88.7		0	-	-
2005/06	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis		2	0.50	98.7		-	-	-
2005/06	Järvenpään Haukat	Mestis		2	5.64	82.3		-	-	-
2006/07	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga		22nd	2.62	91.9		-	-	-
2007/08	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga		30th	2.21	92.7		6th	3.12	89.1
2007/08	SapKo	Mestis		1	3.05	92.3		-	-	-
2008/09	JYP Jyväsyklä	Liiga		27	1.96	92.7		10	1.19	95.4
2008/09	D-Kiekko	Mestis		1	3.03	88.9		-	-	-
2009/10	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga		32	2.08	92.3		11	1.80	93.6
2010/11	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga		28	1.57	93.2		7th	2.05	91.3
2010/11	D-Kiekko	Mestis		2	3.00	86.7		-	-	-
2011/12	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL		21st	2.72	90.9		-	-	-
2012/13	Tappara	Liiga		14th	2.85	90.2		-	-	-
2012/13	Lempäälän Kisa	Mestis		3	2.82	90.7		-	-	-
2012/13	KalPa	Liiga		7th	2.46	91.4		0	-	-
2013/14	KalPa	Liiga		40	2.41	88.9		-	-	-
2013/14	Färjestad BK	SHL		3	3.39	88.0		3	5.84	82.8
2014/15	EC-KAC	EBEL		43	2.47	91.8		4th	4.66	88.2
2015/16	EC-KAC	EBEL		15th	2.66	89.0		-	-	-
2016/17	JYP Jyväskylä	Liiga		32	1.92	92.1		3	2.13	91.8
2017/18	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		6th	2.63	90.6		-	-	-
2017/18	KeuPa HT	Mestis		4th	3.00	88.8		-	-	-
2017/18	HC Bolzano	EBEL		29	1.98	92.9		17th	2.29	92.7

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Pekka Tuokkola at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-KAC goalie Pekka Tuokkola moves to Finland. In: Sportreport. July 12, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Vienna brings veteran goalie Pekka Tuokkola. (No longer available online.) In: Vienna Capitals. October 7, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 7, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.