Sami Vatanen

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Sami Vatanen
Date of birth June 3, 1991
place of birth Jyväskylä , Finland
size 175 cm
Weight 75 kg
position defender
number # 45
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 4th round, 106th position
Anaheim Ducks
KHL Junior Draft 2010 , 1st round, 2nd position
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
Career stations
2009–2012 JYP Jyväskylä
2012-2017 Anaheim Ducks
2017-2020 New Jersey Devils
since 2020 Carolina Hurricanes

Sami Vatanen (born June 3, 1991 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League since February 2020 . The defender was previously active in the NHL for the Anaheim Ducks and the New Jersey Devils .

Career

Sami Vatanen started his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of JYP Jyväskylä . During the NHL Entry Draft 2009 he was selected in the fourth round as a total of 106th player by the Anaheim Ducks . In the 2009/10 season , the defender made his debut for the JYP professional team, for whom he scored ten goals and provided 27 assists in a total of 69 games in his rookie year . He was then selected in the KHL Junior Draft 2010 by Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the first round as the second player overall. Again he initially stayed with his hometown club, where he was able to convince in the 2010/11 season . He received the Pekka Rautakallio trophy as the best defender in the league and the Matti Keinonen trophy as the player with the best plus / minus balance. In addition, he was elected to the all-star team of the SM-liiga and was named Player of the Month for November. In May 2011 he signed a three-year entry contract with the Anaheim Ducks from the National Hockey League , but then also spent the 2011/12 season in his Finnish home with JYP Jyväskylä.

In addition to playing at JYP, the right-handed shooter was also on the ice for the Finnish U20 national team in the Mestis , the second Finnish division, from 2008 to 2011 . In the Mestis he also ran in five games for the D team , the farm team of JYP, in the 2008/09 season .

Due to the NHL - Lockouts in the 2012/13 season , the Finn initially debuted for their farm team , the Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League . In his first use on October 12, 2012 in the home game against the Worcester Sharks , which ended with a 4-2 win for Norfolk, Vatanen posted an assist. He made his debut in the NHL on February 1, 2013 and scored his first goal in the NHL against Columbus on April 17. He finished the AHL season as the second best scorer for the Norfolk Admirals.

With the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Vatanen established himself in the NHL squad of the Ducks. In June 2016, the Finn signed a new four-year contract in Anaheim, which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 4.875 million. However, the Ducks handed him over to the New Jersey Devils in November 2017 and in return received Adam Henrique , Joseph Blandisi and a third-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . In addition, a third-round suffrage moves back to New Jersey, provided Henrique signs a new contract in Anaheim.

Vatanen was active in New Jersey for almost two and a half years before it was handed over to the Carolina Hurricanes for the trade deadline in February 2020 . In return, the Devils received Janne Kuokkanen , Fredrik Claesson and a conditional four-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft . Whether the right to vote changes hands at all or even improves to one for the third round depends on the number of games played by the injured Vatanen at the time of the transfer until the end of the Stanley Cup Playoffs 2020 . In addition, the Devils continued to take 50% of the Finn's salary.

International

For Finland , Vatanen took part in the junior division in the U18 Junior World Championships in 2008 and 2009 and in the U20 Junior World Championships in 2010 and 2011 . At the U18 World Cup in 2009 he won the bronze medal with his team and at the U20 World Cup in 2011 he was named one of the three best players on his team.

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2010 World Cup and the 2010 and 2011 Euro Hockey Tour . At the 2014 Olympic Games, he won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team. He also represented his home country at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Vatanen in JYP Jyväskylä's jersey (2011)

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2007/08 JYP Jyväskylä U20 A-Jun. SM-liiga - - - - - - 2 0 0 0 +1 0
2008/09 JYP Jyväskylä U20 A-Jun. SM-liiga 20th 3 7th 10 -8th 22nd - - - - - -
2008/09 D team Mestis 5 1 1 2 -2 8th - - - - - -
2008/09 Suomi U20 Mestis 2 0 0 0 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
2009/10 Suomi U20 Mestis 1 0 0 0 +1 2 - - - - - -
2009/10 JYP Jyväskylä SM-liiga 55 7th 23 30th -1 44 14th 3 4th 7th +1 6th
2010/11 Suomi U20 Mestis 1 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2010/11 JYP Jyväskylä SM-liiga 52 11 20th 31 +30 30th 3 1 1 2 +4 0
2011/12 JYP Jyväskylä SM-liiga 49 14th 28 42 +11 40 4th 2 0 2 +2 4th
2012/13 Norfolk Admirals AHL 62 9 36 45 ± 0 44 - - - - - -
2012/13 Anaheim Ducks NHL 8th 2 0 2 +3 0 - - - - - -
2013/14 Norfolk Admirals AHL 8th 2 5 7th ± 0 4th 5 0 3 3 +2 4th
2013/14 Anaheim Ducks NHL 48 6th 15th 21st +9 22nd 5 0 1 1 -2 0
2014/15 Anaheim Ducks NHL 67 12 25th 37 +5 36 16 3 8th 11 +5 8th
2015/16 Anaheim Ducks NHL 71 9 29 38 +8 20th 7th 1 3 4th +4 6th
2016/17 Anaheim Ducks NHL 71 3 21st 24 +3 30th 12 1 5 6th -5 4th
2017/18 Anaheim Ducks NHL 15th 1 3 4th –6 8th - - - - - -
2017/18 New Jersey Devils NHL 57 3 25th 28 -1 32 4th 1 0 1 -1 0
2018/19 New Jersey Devils NHL 50 4th 13 17th -17 22nd - - - - - -
A-Jun. SM-liiga total 20th 3 7th 10 -8th 22nd 2 0 0 0 +1 0
Mestis total 9 1 1 2 -2 12 - - - - - -
SM-liiga total 156 32 71 103 +40 114 21st 6th 5 11 +7 10
AHL total 70 11 41 52 ± 0 48 5 0 3 3 +2 4th
NHL overall 387 40 131 171 +4 170 44 6th 17th 23 +1 18th

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2008 Finland WHC 6th place 5 2 3 5 8th
2008 Finland U18 World Cup 6th place 6th 0 3 3 -2 4th
2009 Finland U18 World Cup Bronze medal 6th 1 1 2 +6 2
2010 Finland U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 2 3 5 +2 0
2010 Finland WM 6th place 7th 0 0 0 -2 6th
2011 Finland U20 World Cup 6th place 6th 0 4th 4th +7 4th
2014 Finland Olympia Bronze medal 6th 0 5 5 +3 0
2016 Finland World cup 8th place 3 0 0 0 -3 2
Juniors overall 29 5 14th 19th 18th
Men overall 16 0 5 5 -2 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 )

Web links

Commons : Sami Vatanen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vatanen Inked to Three-Year Entry-Level Deal. Anaheim Ducks, May 31, 2011, accessed February 23, 2012 .
  2. ^ Vatanen signs four-year contract with Ducks. nhl.com, June 18, 2016, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Devils acquire D Sami Vatanen and conditional third-round pick from ANA. nhl.com, November 30, 2017, accessed November 30, 2017 .
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Squad of the Carolina Hurricanes in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Vatanen, Sami
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä , Finland