Petri Kujala

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Petri Kujala
Date of birth September 12, 1970
place of birth Forssa , Finland
size 184 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1996 FPS Forssa
1995-1996 JYP Jyväskylä
1996 FPS Forssa
1996-1999 EHC Neuwied
1999-2000 EC Graz
2000 Mosquitoes eat
2000-2002 Berlin Capitals
2002-2004 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2004-2006 EV Duisburg
2006-2008 EV Ravensburg

Petri Kujala (born September 12, 1970 in Forssa ) is a former German - Finnish ice hockey player ( striker ) and current coach. He has been the head coach of EHC Bayreuth since the 2018/19 season .

Player career

Kujala began his career in the 1990/91 season with FPS Forssa in the second-rate Finnish 1st division . He played for the club for five years before running up for JYP Jyväskylä in the SM-liiga and later for Diskos Jyväskylä and again FPS Forssa in the 1st division in the 1995/96 season. In the 1996/97 season , Kujala came to Germany and played in the second-rate 1st League North for EHC Neuwied and won the championship there in the 1996/97 and 1997/98 seasons with the club and also in 1997 the DEB League Cup .

Kujala then completed a season for EC Graz in the Austrian Oberliga , but returned to Germany in 2000 . First he played one season for Moskitos Essen in the DEL and then for two years for the Berlin Capitals , also in the DEL. Then he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga and went there for two years for Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . Two years followed with EV “Die Füchse” Duisburg , with whom he made it to the DEL after the first season. The last stop of his active career was the EV Ravensburg , where he also played for two years and after his first season with the team made it to the 2nd Bundesliga.

Coaching career

From 2008 to 2012 Petri Kujala was youth coach at EV Ravensburg, where he took over the post of head coach of the professional team for the 2012/13 season and continued until the end of the 2013/14 season.

For the 2014/15 season he was the head coach of EC Bad Nauheim in Germany's second-highest division DEL2 . His contract was extended in January 2016 to the end of the 2016/17 season. Kujala was named the best coach of the DEL2 season 15/16 in March 2016.

Personal

His wife is former professional triathlete Wenke Kujala .

successes

  • 1997: DEB league cup winner
  • 1997: Champion of the 1st division 1996/97
  • 1998: Champion of the 1st division 1997/98
  • 2005: Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga and promotion to the DEL with EV Duisburg
  • 2007: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with EV Ravensburg
  • 2015/16: Best DEL2 trainer of the season

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Enderle: Extensive personnel decisions. (No longer available online.) EVR Towerstars, April 13, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 25, 2012 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.towerstars.de  
  2. ^ Thomas Röstel, Matthias Geissler - Sports Trade GmbH: Bad Nauheim: Petri Kujala remains Red Devils | del-2.org. In: del-2.org. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Justin Kelly is DEL2 player of the year. In: Hockeyweb. Retrieved March 13, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kujala, Petri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Forssa