Roope Ranta

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Roope Ranta
Date of birth May 23, 1988
place of birth Helsinki , Finland
size 172 cm
Weight 72 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
until 2004 Helsingfors IFK
2004-2006 HooCee Helsinki
2006-2008 Espoo Blues
2008-2009 Kiekko-Vantaa
2009-2010 Jokipojat
2010–2012 Espoo Blues
2012-2013 Jokipojat
2013-2014 HC Keski-Uusimaa
2014 Sputnik Nizhny Tagil
2014-2015 SV Kaltern
2015 Lempäälän Kisa
2015-2016 Mikkelin Jukurit
2016 Lusatian foxes
2016-2017 SC Riessersee
2017 IK Oskarshamn
2017-2018 Lusatian foxes
2018-2019 Heilbronn falcon
since 2019 Löwen Frankfurt

Roope Ranta (born May 23, 1988 in Helsinki , Finland ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been playing for the Löwen Frankfurt in the DEL2 since 2019 .

Career

Junior time and career start with the Espoo Blues

Roope Ranta learned to play ice hockey at Helsingfors IFK , alongside Jokerit , the most famous ice hockey club in his native Helsinki. In his junior years he was signed by the Espoo Blues , a team which at that time played in the highest Finnish ice hockey league SM-liiga , for their U20 team. Even after his junior years he played for the Blues until 2012 and came to 78 appearances in the SM-liiga. During this time, Ranta was temporarily loaned to the clubs Kiekko-Vantaa and Jokipojat , which were active in the Mestis , the second highest Finnish ice hockey league. For Kiekko he played the entire 2008/09 season and was the second best scorer of his team, at Jokipojat he was loaned out the following season and was able to contribute 21 points to the team's championship win this season in his 23 missions.

Successes in Finland's 2nd division - first experiences abroad

For Jokipojat he also played the first season 2012/13 after his time with the Blues and was the best scorer of his team this season and the best assists of the Mestis with 34 assists. In the following season he moved to the league competitor HC Keski-Uusimaa , where he was again the best scorer of the team at the end of the season.

Since HC Keski ceased playing at the end of the 2013/14 season, Roope moved abroad for the first time in his career and began the 2014/15 season in the second Russian league, the Wysschaja Hockey League , with Sputnik Nizhny Tagil . During the season he moved to the highest Italian ice hockey league Serie A for SV Kaltern Rothoblaas . At the end of the season he returned to Finland and played for Lempälään Kisa in de Mestis, where he scored most of his team's goals in the play-offs. In the next 2015/16 season he continued to play in the Mestis, this time for Mikkeli Jukurit's team, which had been very successful in recent seasons . The team from the Finnish lake region of Savo was able to win the championship in the Mestis this season, with Ranta being chosen as the second best scorer of his team behind Oula Palve, the most successful player in the Mestis in the play-offs and in the league's all-star team.

Change to Germany in the DEL2

Despite his good season record, he did not receive a new contract offer from Jukurit and switched to the second highest German ice hockey league DEL2 for the Lausitzer Füchsen in the 2016/17 season . At the traditional Saxon club, he received a fixed-term contract for two months and was initially scheduled to replace the foreign contingent players Jeff Hayes and Jakub Svoboda who were injured in the pre-season . After he was able to score 22 points (9 goals) in his 15 league appearances for the Füchse, Roope also aroused the interest of the league competition and was signed by SC Riessersee in November 2016 . He was also able to score 36 points (18 goals) in 40 games in Upper Bavaria , making him the club's second-best goalscorer behind Andreas Driendl and fourth-best scorer in the DEL2 main round of the 2016/17 season with 57 points. Nevertheless, the Finn was not only rated positively after the season, as he no longer confirmed his performance at the end of the season. For sporting and financial reasons, it was not possible to agree on a new contract with the SCR . In the 2017/18 season, Ranta first moved to what he believed to be the more powerful second Swedish league at IK Oskarshamn . However, he had difficulties adjusting to the other style of play in this league, got only a little ice time (11 games - 4 assists) and was hired again in November 2017 with the Lausitzer Füchsen in the DEL2. In the Lausitz he could achieve 54 points in 43 season stakes and moved to season 2018/19 for Liga rivals Heilbronner Falken . In Heilbronn he was the player with the best points in the main round (79 points), but missed the play-offs with the Falken and switched to the Löwen Frankfurt for the 2019/20 season .

Achievements and Awards

  • 2006 Best point player in Finnish Junior League Division B
  • 2008 All-Star Team Finnish Junior League A SM-liiga
  • 2013 best preparer (34 assists) of the Mestis
  • 2015 Player of the Month in December in the Mestis
  • 2016 Master of Mestis with Jukurit
  • 2016 Best player in points (18 points) in the play-offs in the Mestis
  • 2016 All-Star Team Mestis
  • 2019 best point player in the DEL2 main round 2018/19 (79 points)

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Liiga main round 4th 75 12 13 25th 22nd
Liiga playoffs 1 3 0 1 1 12
Mestis main round 9 251 97 157 254 236
Mestis playoffs 6th 52 15th 23 38 55

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kiekko-Vantaa team statistics - 2008/09 season , eliteprospects.com , May 2009, accessed on December 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Team Statistics Jokipojat - 2009/10 , eliteprospects.com, May 2010, accessed on 23 December 2016
  3. ↑ Jokipojat team statistics - 2012/13 season , eliteprospects.com, May 2013, accessed on December 23, 2016
  4. ↑ Team statistics HC Keski-Uusimaa - season 2013/14 , eliteprospects.com, May 2014, accessed on December 23, 2016
  5. ↑ Kaltern and Tommi Roope Ranta go their separate ways , Sportnews Südtirol, January 7, 2015, accessed on December 23, 2016
  6. ↑ Team statistics Lempäälän Kisa - season 2014/15 , eliteprospects.com, May 2015, accessed on December 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Roope Ranta's crazy story , Münchner Merkur , November 9, 2016, accessed on December 23, 2016
  8. ^ The struggle for Roope Ranta , Lausitzer Rundschau , October 7, 2016, accessed on December 23, 2016
  9. ↑ Finnish top scorer comes from league competitor , Münchner Merkur, November 4, 2016, accessed on November 23, 2016
  10. ↑ This is how the testimonies of the SCR players turn out , Münchner Merkur, March 17, 2017, accessed on November 30, 2017
  11. ↑ SCR: Nothing specific when looking for a trainer , Münchner Merkur, April 19, 2017, accessed on November 30, 2017
  12. ↑ No Money for a Trio , Münchner Merkur, May 1, 2017, accessed November 30, 2017
  13. ↑ Roope Ranta plays for the second time in Weißwasser - hard times in Sweden , Ice Hockey News , November 24, 2017, accessed on November 30, 2017
  14. ↑ Audience favorite Roope Ranta returns, Lausitzer Füchse website, November 13, 2017
  15. ↑ Roope Ranta and Derek Damon are moving to Heilbronn , eishockey-magazin.de, May 24, 2018, accessed on September 15, 2018
Squad of the Löwen Frankfurt in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Ranta, Roope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki