Sami Ryhänen

Sami Ryhänen
Date of birth	May 23, 1980
place of birth	Helsinki , Finland
size	177 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1999	HIFK Helsinki
1999-2000	Espoo Blues
2000-2001	Uusikaupunki Jää-Kotkat Étoile Noire de Strasbourg
2001-2002	Haukat Järvenpää
2002-2003	Clermont-Auvergne HC
2003-2004	Halmstad Hammers
2004-2005	Uppsala Hockey Stjernen
2005-2006	HC Salamat Kirkkonummi Lukko Rauma
2006-2008	SaiPa Lappeenranta
2008	IF Björklöven
2008-2009	Espoo Blues
2009	Tappara Tampere
2010	LeKi
2010-2011	HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
2011	Almtuna IS SV Ritten

Sami Ryhänen (born May 23, 1980 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who was last under contract with SV Ritten in the Italian A1 series until 2011 .

Career

Sami Ryhänen began his career as an ice hockey player at HIFK Helsinki , for whose youth he was active from 1996 to 1999. He then played another year in the Espoo Blues youth team before the attacker received his first professional contract with Uusikaupunki Jää-Kotkat from the Mestis . During his first season in the senior division, he moved to the French Division 1 . Ryhänen then played for one season each in the Mestis for Haukat Järvenpää , and in the Ligue Magnus for Clermont-Auvergne HC .

Before the 2003/04 season, the Finn received a contract with the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan , where he was on the ice for the following year and a half for Halmstad Hammers and Uppsala Hockey before ending the 2004/05 season with Stjernen from the Norwegian UPC leagues . He then returned to his Finnish homeland, where the center was on the ice the following year for HC Salamat Kirkkonummi from Mestis and Lukko Rauma from SM-liiga . After he was exclusively under contract with SaiPa Lappeenranta in the 2006/07 season , the left-handed player played for SaiPa, HC Innsbruck from the Austrian Ice Hockey League and IF Björklöven from HockeyAllsvenskan in the 2007/08 season .

The 2008/09 season began Ryhänen with the Espoo Blues in the SM-liiga, before moving to their league rivals Tappara Tampere , where he was under contract until November 2009, immediately before the playoffs . After he was then without a club, he joined the Finnish second division team LeKi in February 2010, for whom he played until the end of the season. He started the 2010/11 season at HDD Olimpija Ljubljana in the Austrian Ice Hockey League and later played for Almtuna IS in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan and SV Ritten in the Italian A1 series . He has been without a club since then.

Web links

• Sami Ryhänen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Sami Ryhänen at eurohockey.com
• Sami Ryhänen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Sami Ryhänen at sonice.it