Saku Maeenalanen

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Saku Maeenalanen
Date of birth May 29, 1994
place of birth Tornio , Finland
size 192 cm
Weight 94 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 5th round, 125th position
Nashville Predators
KHL Junior Draft 2016 , 2nd round, 54th position
HK Sibir Novosibirsk
Career stations
2009-2010 Oulun Kärpät
2010-2011 Kiekko laser
2011-2018 Oulun Kärpät
2018-2019 Carolina Hurricanes
Charlotte Checkers
since 2019 Jokerite

Saku Petteri Müllenalanen (born May 29, 1994 in Tornio ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Jokerit in the Continental Hockey League since September 2019 . Before that, he mainly spent his career at Oulun Kärpät and was three times Finnish champion with the team .

Career

Mühlenalanen began his career at Oulun Kärpät . In 2010 he moved to the U18 team of local rivals Kiekko-Laser for a year , with whom he became champion in the II division of the B-Juniors, before returning to Oulu . There he first played one season in the SM-Sarja of the B-Juniors and from 2012 to 2014 in the Liiga, the top division of the country, the A-Juniors. In 2013, he was appointed to the All-Star Team as the best template provider. Then he was pulled in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 by the Nashville Predators in the fifth round in a total of 125th position. However, he stayed with his home club and became Finnish A-Juniors runner-up with him in 2014.

At the same time, Mäenalanen made his debut for Oulun Kärpät in the SM-liiga in the 2013/14 season . In his first season in the top division of Finland, he came to 25 appearances and won the Finnish championship with his club . But he was also used on loan at the second division Jokipojat , for whom he appeared fifteen times. In the following season, the Finn continued to play for the team of Oulu in the Liiga and defended his title successfully, but was still well used on loan from other clubs: In addition to eight games at league rivals Pelicans he stood 17 times at Kajaanin Hokki in the second-rate mestis on the ice.

For the 2017/18 season, Müllenalanen increased his personal statistics significantly, scoring 46 points in 59 games and celebrating the third Finnish championship with Kärpät. As a result, Mänenalanen decided to move to North America and signed a one-year contract with the Carolina Hurricanes from the National Hockey League (NHL) in May 2018 . The player rights to him acquired by the Nashville Predators in the NHL Entry Draft had already expired.

After a year in North America, in which he was used in roughly equal parts by the Hurricanes and their farm team , the Charlotte Checkers from the American Hockey League (AHL), the attacker returned to his Finnish homeland and joined the Jokerit in September 2019 from Helsinski.

International

Saku Muchtenalanen represented Finland at the world championships in the junior area only at the U20 World Cup in Malmö in 2014 . As the tournament's top scorer with seven goals from seven games, he was instrumental in winning the gold medal for the first time since 1998. He was also the third-best scorer of the tournament with eleven points behind his compatriot Teuvo Teräväinen and the Swede Filip Forsberg .

He made his debut for the Finnish national team at the 2018 World Cup , where he finished fifth with the team.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2011 Master of the II-divisioona of the B-Juniors with Kiekko-Laser
  • 2013 Best assists in the B-Junior-Liiga and member of the All-Star-Team
  • 2014 Finnish A-Junior runner-up with Oulun Kärpät
  • 2014 Finnish champion with Oulun Kärpät
  • 2015 Finnish champion with Oulun Kärpät
  • 2018 Finnish champion with Oulun Kärpät

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2012/13 Oulun Kärpät A-Jun.-SM-liiga 45 23 35 58 43 5 5 2 7th 18th
2013/14 Oulun Kärpät A-Jun.-SM-liiga 5 3 3 6th 2 12 4th 4th 8th 10
2013/14 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 25th 4th 3 7th 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Jokipojat Mestis 15th 9 6th 15th 4th - - - - -
2014/15 Oulun Kärpät A-Jun.-SM-liiga 6th 2 6th 8th 2 - - - - -
2014/15 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 20th 4th 1 5 2 7th 0 1 1 0
2014/15 Pelicans Lahti Liiga 8th 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2014/15 Kajaanin Hokki Mestis 17th 5 8th 13 6th 10 2 4th 6th 22nd
2015/16 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 46 6th 10 16 14th 13 3 1 4th 6th
2016/17 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 34 11 10 21st 6th 2 0 0 0 0
2017/18 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 59 17th 29 46 26th 18th 5 5 10 16
2018/19 Carolina Hurricanes NHL 34 4th 4th 8th 20th 9 0 1 1 6th
2018/19 Charlotte Checkers AHL 31 7th 7th 14th 8th - - - - -
A-Juniors-SM-liiga total 56 28 44 72 47 17th 9 6th 15th 28
Mestis total 32 14th 14th 28 10 10 2 4th 6th 22nd
Liiga overall 192 43 53 96 48 40 8th 7th 15th 22nd

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2014 Finland U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 7th 4th 11 0
2018 Finland WM 5th place 8th 2 1 3 8th
Juniors overall 7th 7th 4th 11 0
Men overall 8th 2 1 3 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 )

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Squad of Jokerit in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Mäenalanen, Saku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mänenalanen, Saku Petteri; Maenalanen, Saku
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Tornio