Raimo Summanen

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Raimo Summanen
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
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

International

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personal data
SURNAME Summanen, Raimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä , Finland