Raimo Summanen
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Date of birth | March 2, 1962 |
place of birth | Jyväskylä , Finland |
size | 181 cm |
Weight | 89 kg |
position | Left wing |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1982 , 6th lap, 125th position Edmonton Oilers |
Career stations | |
until 1981 | JYP Jyväskylä |
1981-1982 | Reipas Lahti |
1982-1984 | Ilves Tampere |
1984-1987 | Edmonton Oilers |
1987-1988 | Vancouver Canucks |
1988-1990 | Ilves Tampere |
1990-1991 | HPK Hämeenlinna |
1991-1992 | Ilves Tampere |
1992-1993 | TPS Turku |
1993-1994 |
Jokerit Helsinki SC Bern |
1994-1995 | TPS Turku |
Raimo Summanen (born March 2, 1962 in Jyväskylä ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player and current coach who, during his active time from 1981 to 1995, worked for Reipas Lahti , Ilves Tampere , HPK Hämeenlinna , TPS Turku and Jokerit Helsinki in the SM -liiga as well as the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League . Most recently he was the head coach of HK Awangard Omsk in the Continental Hockey League between 2014 and 2015 .
Career as a player
Raimo Summanen began his career as a hockey player with Reipas Lahti , for which he made his debut in the SM-liiga , Finland's top division, in the 1981/82 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1982 in the sixth round as a total of 125 players by the Edmonton Oilers . Initially, however, the attacker played two more years in Finland with Ilves Tampere before he made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Oilers towards the end of the 1983/84 season . In his three years with the Oilers he won the Stanley Cup with the team in 1984 and 1985 , but Summanen did not play enough games in both seasons to be officially immortalized on the trophy. Towards the end of the 1986/87 season Summanen was given to the Vancouver Canucks , where he could not prevail, so that he was only 19 times in the NHL on the ice in the year and a half in Vancouver.
In 1988 Summanen returned to his Finnish homeland, where he signed a contract with his ex-club Ilves Tampere, for which he was active for the following four seasons, interrupted by one year, with their league rivals HPK Hämeenlinna . In the 1992/93 season Summanen was Finnish champion for the first time with TPS Turku . He was able to repeat this success in the following season with Jokerit Helsinki . However, he ended the 1993/94 season at SC Bern in the Swiss National League A , his only stop in other European countries, before ending his active career in 1995 at TPS Turku. For Summanen this was the third championship title in a row in Finland and the second with Turku.
International
For Finland Summanen took part in the Junior World Championships in 1982 , as well as the A-World Championships in 1983 , 1987 , 1990 , 1991 and 1995 . He was also in Finland's squad at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and 1992 in Albertville .
NHL statistics
Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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Regular season | 5 | 151 | 36 | 40 | 76 | 35 |
Playoffs | 2 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 0 |
Career as a coach
After his active career, Summanen became head coach at Jokerit Helsinki in 2001 , with whom he had already become champions as a player. He was able to repeat this success in the 2001/02 season . He was also awarded the Kalevi Numminen trophy as the best coach in the SM-liiga . In 2003 Summanen finally took over the vacant position as coach of the Finnish national team , which he led to the finals of the World Cup of Hockey 2004 , where his team was just defeated by Canada . Due to internal disputes with players and association officials, he was dismissed after just one year following the tournament. His successor was, of all people , Erkka Westerlund , whom he had replaced in 2001 as coach at Jokerit.
In the 2005/06 season he was athletic director with the Espoo Blues before he worked as a scout for the St. Louis Blues . Between 2008 and 2010 he was the trainer of the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers .
In the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons he was head coach at HIFK before returning to HK Awangard Omsk in April 2014 .
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 1982 top scorer at the Junior World Championship
- 1982 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
- 1995 gold medal at the world championship
- 2004 silver medal at the World Cup of Hockey with Finland (as coach)
Web links
- Raimo Summanen at hockeydb.com (English)
- Raimo Summanen at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Summanen, Raimo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ice hockey player and coach |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jyväskylä , Finland |