Sami Kaartinen

Sami Kaartinen
Sami Kaartinen (2009)
Date of birth	April 7, 1979
place of birth	Kouvola , Finland
size	177 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 10
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2000	SaiPa Lappeenranta
2001-2002	Vaasan Sport
2002-2003	Hokki Kajaani
2003-2004	SaiPa Lappeenranta Brûl. de Loups de Grenoble
2004-2007	KalPa Kuopio
2007-2009	EHC Olten
2009-2015	Dresden Ice Lions

Sami Kaartinen (born April 7, 1979 in Kouvola ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who played for the Dresdner Eislöwen in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga and DEL2 on the right winger position between 2009 and 2015 .

Career

Sami Kaartinen learned to play ice hockey at his home club SaiPa Lappeenranta and went through all youth teams there. In the 1998/99 season he made his debut in Finland's elite league , the SM-liiga .

In the same and the following season, he also continued to play for the SaiPa junior team. In the 2000/01 season he went on the ice for various teams in Finland's second division, the Mestis . These teams included KooKoo Kouvola , Jokipojat Joensuu and Kiekko-Vantaa . In the following game year he completed 47 mestis games for Vaasan Sport before moving to Hokki Kajaani . There he scored 52 scorer points in 42 games of the Mestis main round. Because of this performance he got a contract with his home club in 2003, but could not meet expectations with ten scorer points from 40 games in the SM-liiga. Therefore, he moved to the Brûleurs de Loups from Grenoble during the main round .

In the summer of 2004 he returned to Finland and was signed by KalPa Kuopio . With his new team he made it to the SM-liiga in 2005 . In addition, the second-best scorer in the main round 2004/05. Kaartinen stayed with KalPa until the end of the 2006/07 season . Via KooKoo Kouvola he came to EHC Olten in 2008 in the National League B , where he was able to convince with 32 scorer points from 25 NLB games. In the 2008/09 season he reached 27 goals and 24 assists in 46 games of the NLB main round.

In the summer of 2009 he dissolved his contract, which would have tied him to the EHC Olten until 2010, and moved to the Dresden Ice Lions in the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga . There he developed into a leading player and crowd favorite. In December 2014, he suffered a hand injury that made him miss parts of the 2014/15 season and the entire 2015/16 season. In June 2016 he announced his final career end. As the best goalscorer in the history of the club (155 goals in 302 competitive games), his number was blocked by the ice lions.

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 French runner-up with the Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble
• 2005 Promotion to the SM-liiga with KalPa Kuopio

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
1998/99	SaiPa Lapeenranta	SM-liiga		40	2	3	5	8th	1		7th	0	0	0	0	−1
1999/00	SaiPa Lapeenranta	SM-liiga		42	2	1	3	4th	−2		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	SaiPa Lapeenranta	SM-liiga		24	0	0	0	2
2000/01	KooKoo Kouvola	Mestis		10	1	0	1	2	−6
2000/01	Jokipojat Joensuu	Mestis		4th	0	0	0	2	−5
2000/01	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis		7th	2	5	7th	2	−1		3	0	1	1	0	−2
2001/02	Vaasan Sport	Mestis		37	9	4th	13	24	+3		10	4th	4th	8th	2	+6
2002/03	Hokki Kajaani	Mestis		42	30th	22nd	52	10	+5		3	0	1	1	4th	−1
2003/04	SaiPa Lapeenranta	SM-liiga		40	4th	6th	10	8th	−5
2003/04	Brûleurs de Loups	Super 16		11	4th	8th	12	4th			8th	7th	1	8th	4th
2004/05	KalPa Kuopio	Mestis		41	19th	26th	45	18th	16		8th	1	2	3	4th
2005/06	KalPa Kuopio	SM-liiga		56	11	7th	18th	14th	−15		-	-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	KalPa Kuopio	SM-liiga		46	6th	9	15th	20th	−7		-	-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	KooKoo Kouvola	Mestis		17th	12	12	24	4th	+6
2007/08	EHC Olten	NLB		20th	19th	9	28	2			5	0	4th	4th	2
2008/09	EHC Olten	NLB		46	27	24	51	43			2	1	0	1	2
2009/10	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		50	34	18th	52	16			3	3	0	3	0
2010/11	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		46	24	42	66	6th			8th	3	4th	7th	2
2011/12	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		41	11	34	45	24			8th	5	4th	9	4th
2012/13	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		48	29	24	53	39
2013/14	Dresden Ice Lions	DEL2		50	27	31	58	20th			5	4th	2	6th	0
2014/15	Dresden Ice Lions	DEL2		32	10	13	23	12			5	1	1	2	2
2015/16	Dresden Ice Lions	DEL2		not played because of injury
SM-liiga total				248	25th	26th	51	56		7th	0	0	0	0
Mestis total				158	73	69	142	62		24	5	8th	13	10
National League B total				66	46	33	79	45		7th	1	4th	5	4th
2. Bundesliga overall				185	98	118	216	85		19th	11	8th	19th	6th
DEL2 total				82	37	44	81	32		10	5	3	8th	2

( 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 )

Web links

• Sami Kaartinen at eurohockey.com
• Sami Kaartinen at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience favorite Sami fears about his career. (No longer available online.) In: mopo24.de. December 19, 2014, archived from the original on June 15, 2016 ; accessed on June 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Another operation with Sami Kaartinen. In: hockeyweb.de. September 15, 2015, accessed June 15, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Sami Kaartinen ends career - Eislöwen. In: eisloewen.de. June 15, 2016, accessed June 15, 2016 .