Petteri Nokelainen

Petteri Nokelainen
Date of birth	January 16, 1986
place of birth	Imatra , Finland
size	185 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
number	# 29
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 1st round, 16th position New York Islanders
Career stations
until 2005	SaiPa Lappeenranta
2005-2007	New York Islanders
2007-2009	Boston Bruins
2009-2010	Anaheim Ducks
2010	Phoenix Coyotes
2010-2011	Jokerit Helsinki
2011	Phoenix Coyotes
2011-2013	Montréal Canadiens Hamilton Bulldogs
2013-2014	Brynäs IF
2014-2015	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2015-2016	Saimaan Pallo

Antti Petteri Nokelainen (born January 16, 1986 in Imatra ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who was last under contract with Saimaan Pallo in the Liiga .

Career

Petteri Nokelainen began his career as an ice hockey player in 2002 in his Finnish homeland with SaiPa Lappeenranta from the SM-liiga . He played there for a total of three years. During the NHL Entry Draft 2004 , the Finn was selected by the New York Islanders in the first round as the 16th player. Nokelainen stayed in Finland for one more season before joining the Islanders in the summer of 2005. In his first season Nokelainen met once in 15 games for the team from New York , but he was out for months due to a serious knee injury. The following season he played exclusively for the farm team of the Islanders from the American Hockey League , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers .

On September 11, 2007, Nokelainen was given to Ben Walter and a possible second-round vote in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft to the Boston Bruins . There, too, Nokelainen came first for the Boston AHL farm team, the Providence Bruins , but he finally prevailed in the National Hockey League and played 57 games in his first season with the Bruins, with which he reached the playoffs. From the summer of 2008 Nokelainen played exclusively for the NHL team of the Bruins, who transferred him to the Anaheim Ducks on March 4, 2009 in exchange for Steve Montador . After a year on the west coast, he moved to the Phoenix Coyotes . In August 2010 Nokelainen signed a two-year contract with Jokerit Helsinki . In May 2011, however, he returned to Phoenix.

In October 2011, the Phoenix Coyotes transferred him to the Montréal Canadiens together with Garrett Stafford in exchange for Brock Trotter and a seven-round vote in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft . Montréal extended its expiring contract in June 2012 by one year and used it exclusively with the Hamilton Bulldogs in the AHL in the following season .

On August 16, 2013 Nokelainen signed a one-year contract with Brynäs IF from Svenska Hockeyligan . The attacker began the 2014/15 season with the Russian club Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the Continental Hockey League , but was released in November 2015. After several months without a club, the Finn returned to his homeland in the summer of 2015 and joined Saimaan Pallo from the Liiga .

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
• 2004 Topscorer of the U18 Junior World Championship (together with Lauri Korpikoski , Lauri Tukonen and Roman Woloshenko )
• 2004 Best assists in the U18 Junior World Championship (together with seven other players)
• 2011 gold medal at the world championship

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2002/03	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-liiga		2	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-liiga		40	4th	4th	8th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-liiga		52	15th	5	20th	34		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	New York Islanders	NHL		15th	1	1	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	AHL		60	6th	10	16	51		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Providence Bruins	AHL		8th	3	5	8th	4th		6th	4th	1	5	0
2007/08	Boston Bruins	NHL		57	7th	3	10	19th		7th	0	2	2	4th
2008/09	Boston Bruins	NHL		33	0	3	3	10		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		17th	4th	2	6th	6th		9	0	0	0	2
2009/10	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		50	4th	7th	11	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		17th	1	1	2	6th		5	0	0	0	2
2010/11	Jokerit Helsinki	SM-liiga		46	11	16	27	116		7th	2	0	2	12
2011/12	Phoenix Coyotes	NHL		5	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Montréal Canadiens	NHL		51	3	3	6th	37		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL		17th	2	2	4th	21st		-	-	-	-	-
SM-liiga total				140	31	25th	56	168		7th	2	0	2	12
AHL total				85	11	17th	28	76		6th	4th	1	5	0
NHL overall				245	20th	21st	41	103		21st	0	2	2	8th

International

Represented Finland at:

U18 Junior World Championship 2003 U20 Junior World Championship 2004 U18 Junior World Championship 2004

U20 Junior World Championship 2005 World Championship 2011

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003	Finland	U18 World Cup		6th	1	0	1	6th
2004	Finland	U20 World Cup		7th	1	0	1	0
2004	Finland	U18 World Cup		6th	5	6th	11	16
2005	Finland	U20 World Cup		6th	1	4th	5	2
2011	Finland	WM		9	1	1	2	8th
Juniors overall				25th	8th	10	18th	24
Men overall				9	1	1	2	8th

( 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 : Petteri Nokelainen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petteri Nokelainen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Petteri Nokelainen at eurohockey.com
• Petteri Nokelainen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Petteri Nokelainen at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ jokerit.com, Nokelainen Jokereihin kahden vuoden sopimuksella
2. ↑ tsn.ca, Coyotes sign free-agent Nokelainen to one-year deal
3. ↑ Han ersätter Elias Lindholm - Brynäs värvar före detta stortalang. (No longer available online.) Hockeysverige.se, August 16, 2013, archived from the original on August 25, 2013 ; Retrieved August 16, 2013 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.