Reijo Mikkolainen

Reijo Mikkolainen
Date of birth	May 14, 1964
place of birth	Pirkkala , Finland
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1983-1989	Tappara Tampere
1989-1994	TPS Turku
1994	Kiekko-67
1994-1995	Ilves Tampere
1995-1996	Tappara Tampere
1996-1997	EC Peiting
1997-1998	TuS Geretsried

Reijo Kalevi Mikkolainen (born May 14, 1964 in Pirkkala ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player .

Career

Reijo Mikkolainen began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Tappara Tampere , for whose professional team he was active from 1983 to 1989 in the SM-liiga , the highest Finnish league. With the team he won the Finnish championship title in 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1988 . Following the 1988/89 season, the winger moved within the league to TPS Turku , with whom he was also champions in 1990, 1991 and 1993. He also won the European Ice Hockey Cup with TPS in 1993 . The 1993/94 season he partly spent with TPS ' farm team Kiekko-67 in the second-class I-divisioona . He then played for a year and a half for the SM-liiga participant Ilves Tampere , before he returned to his ex-club Tappara Tampere during the 1995/96 season . For the 1996/97 season , the Finn joined the EC Peiting from the 1st League South , the second highest German division at the time. The following season , however, also he spent in Germany, this time in the third-rate second league at TuS Geretsried . He then ended his career at the age of 34.

In 2005, Mikkolainen was honored with the induction into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame.

International

For Finland , Mikkolainen took part in the junior division at the U18 European Junior Championship in 1982 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 1984 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1987 , 1989 and 1990 and at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . At the U20 World Cup in 1984 and the Olympic Winter Games in 1988, he and his teams won the silver medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 1984 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere
• 1986 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere
• 1987 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere
• 1988 Finnish champion with Tappara Tampere
• 1990 Finnish champion with TPS Turku
• 1991 Finnish champion with TPS Turku
• 1993 Finnish champion with TPS Turku
• 1993 European Cup win with TPS Turku

International

• 1984 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1988 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

SM liiga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	13	441	123	110	233	222
Playoffs	9	65	12	13	25th	36

family

His great-grandfather Kalle Mikkolainen won the bronze medal in gymnastics with the Finnish team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London .

Web links

• Reijo Mikkolainen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Reijo Mikkolainen at eurohockey.com
• Reijo Mikkolainen at eliteprospects.com (English)