Petri Matikainen

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FinlandFinland  Petri Matikainen Ice hockey player
Date of birth 7th January 1967
place of birth Savonlinna , Finland
size 184 cm
Weight 85 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 7th lap, 140th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
until 1985 SaPKo Savonlinna
1985-1987 Oshawa Generals
1987-1989 Tappara Tampere
1989-1994 Jokipojat
1994-1996 KalPa Kuopio
1996-1997 Berlin Capitals
1997-1999 EC KAC
FinlandFinland  Petri Matikainen
Petri Matikainen
Coaching stations
2004-2005 Pelicans
2005-2007 Espoo Blues ( assistant coach )
2007-2011 Espoo Blues
2011–2012 HIFK
2012-2014 Avangard Omsk
2014 Graz 99ers
2014-2015 HC Slovan Bratislava
2015-2018 Pelicans
since 2018 EC KAC

Petri Matikainen (born January 7, 1967 in Savonlinna ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach who has been under contract as head coach of the EC KAC in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League since May 2018 .

Career

As a player

Petri Matikainen began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of SaPKo Savonlinna , for whose professional team he made his debut in the I-divisioona , the second Finnish division, in the 1984/85 season . The defender then spent two years with the Oshawa Generals in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League . With Oshawa he won the 1987 J. Ross Robertson Cup , the OHL championship. He then returned to his Finnish homeland, where he received a contract with the top team Tappara Tampere from the SM-liiga . With Tappara he immediately won the Finnish championship title in the 1987/88 season . In the same year he took third place in the European Cup with his team at European level . From 1989 to 1994 he played for Jokipojat in the first and second Finnish division. Then in two years he was on the ice for KalPa Kuopio in the SM-liiga. For the 1996/97 season , the left shooter was signed by the Berlin Capitals from the German Ice Hockey League . There he began the following season before he joined the EC KAC from the Austrian Ice Hockey League in the middle of the season . With the team he was runner-up at the end of the season and took second place with the team in the Alpine League . In the 1998/99 season he was again runner-up with the EC KAC before ending his active career at the age of 32.

International

For Finland , Matikainen took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 1986 and 1987 . At the U20 World Cup in 1987 he was world champion with his team.

As a trainer

In the 2003/04 season, Matikainen started his career as an ice hockey coach. As head coach he looked after the U20 juniors of the Pelicans Lahti , whose professional team he looked after in the 2004/05 season in the SM-liiga. From 2005 to 2007 he was assistant coach of Espoo Blues from the SM-liiga. He then worked for the team as head coach for four years and led them to the runner-up in the 2007/08 and 2010/11 seasons as an outsider. For this he received the Kalevi-Numminen-Trophy as coach of the year of the SM-liiga in both seasons .

In parallel to his coaching career in clubs, Matikainen was assistant coach of the Finnish U20 national team at world championships in 2004, 2005 and 2007 . At the 2011 World Cup , he was world champion as assistant coach with the senior national team of Finland.

For the 2011/12 season the Finn was hired by the reigning champions HIFK Helsinki as head coach. From 2012 he acted as head coach at HK Awangard Omsk before he was dismissed after six games in the 2013/14 season. At the end of October 2013, Matikainen became head coach of the EC Graz 99ers and thus the successor to Mario Richer .

From September 2014 he was head coach at HC Slovan Bratislava . He then worked for three years as the head coach of the Pelicans .

In May 2018 he was signed by the Austrian record champions EC KAC , for whom he was already a player.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

  • 1998 2nd place in the Alpine League with the EC KAC
  • 1998 Austrian runner-up with the EC KAC
  • 1999 Austrian runner-up with the EC KAC

As a trainer

  • 2011 Kalevi Numminen Trophy
  • 2011 gold medal at the world championship (as assistant coach)
  • 2019 Austrian champion with the EC KAC

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Savonlinnan Pallokerho I-divisioona 31 1 2 3 43 - - - - -
1985/86 Oshawa Generals OHL 53 14th 42 56 27 6th 1 4th 5 13
1986/87 Oshawa Generals OHL 50 8th 34 42 53 21st 2 12 14th 36
1987 Oshawa Generals Memorial Cup 4th 2 0 2 4th - - - - -
1987/88 Tappara SM-liiga 41 5 1 6th 58 10 0 2 2 4th
1988/89 Tappara SM-liiga 44 4th 13 17th 32 8th 0 0 0 10
1989/90 Jokipojat SM-liiga 44 6th 8th 14th 34 3 0 1 1 6th
1990/91 Jokipojat I-divisioona 43 16 25th 41 35 - - - - -
1991/92 Jokipojat SM-liiga 42 4th 8th 12 38 5 3 1 4th 10
1992/93 Jokipojat I-divisioona 42 20th 21st 41 51 6th 3 2 5 2
1993/94 Jokipojat I-divisioona 45 13 41 54 46 5 3 1 4th 6th
1994/95 Kalevan Pallo SM-liiga 49 5 13 18th 40 3 1 0 1 12
1995/96 Kalevan Pallo SM-liiga 50 5 11 16 36 - - - - -
1996/97 Berlin Capitals DEL 44 4th 7th 11 63 4th 0 0 0 8th
1997/98 Berlin Capitals DEL 24 0 8th 8th 14th - - - - -
1997/98 1 EC KAC ÖEHL 26th 2 2 4th 77 - - - - -
1998/99 1 EC KAC ÖEHL 50 4th 10 14th 102 - - - - -
ÖEHL overall 76 6th 12 18th 179 - - - - -
DEL total 68 4th 15th 19th 77 4th 0 0 0 8th
I-divisioona total 161 50 89 139 175 11 6th 3 9 8th
SM-liiga total 270 29 54 83 238 29 4th 4th 8th 42
OHL total 103 22nd 76 98 80 27 3 16 19th 49

( 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 )

1 Playoff stats are included in the regular season stats

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eurohockey.com, Avangard fires coach Petri Matikainen , Sept. 17, 2013
  2. ↑ Ice Hockey News , Hire and Fire: Petri Matikainen takes over coaching job from Mario Richer at the Graz 99ers , October 25, 2013
  3. ↑ Unsuccessful debut: Petri Matikainen cannot fix Slovan's misery. Ice Hockey News , September 25, 2014, accessed May 14, 2018 .
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EC KAC squad in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Matikainen, Petri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 7th January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Savonlinna , Finland