Teemu Hartikainen

Teemu Hartikainen
Date of birth	May 3, 1990
place of birth	Kuopio , Finland
size	186 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 56
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 6th lap, 163rd position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
2007-2010	KalPa Kuopio
2010-2013	Oklahoma City Barons
2011-2013	Edmonton Oilers
since 2013	Salawat Yulayev Ufa

Teemu Hartikainen (born May 3, 1990 in Kuopio ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Salawat Julajew Ufa in the Continental Hockey League since June 2013 .

Career

Teemu Hartikainen began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of KalPa Kuopio , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga , the top Finnish league, in the 2007/08 season . In his only mission he remained unpunished and punished. He spent most of the season with the U20 juniors from KalPa, but continued to play for the U18. In the 2008 NHL Entry Draft he was selected in the sixth round as a total of 163 players by the Edmonton Oilers . Initially, however, the winger stayed with his home club KalPa Kuopio, with whom he took third place in the SM-liiga in the 2008/09 season . This year he made his breakthrough in the professional field and he scored 20 goals in a total of 63 games and provided six assists, making him the top scorer of all SM liiga rookies. He was also awarded the Jarmo Wasama commemorative trophy as Rookie of the Year in the SM liiga. In the 2009/10 season , the left shooter was able to increase to 40 points scorer, including 21 goals, in 66 games. From 2008 to 2010 he was also on the ice parallel to the game with KalPa in four games for the Finnish U20 national team in the second Finnish division, the Mestis .

For the 2010/11 season Hartikainen was ordered by his draft team Edmonton Oilers to North America, where he initially played exclusively for Edmonton's farm team Oklahoma City Barons in the American Hockey League . For the Barons he scored 42 scorer points in 66 games, 17 of which were goals. Then the Finn was given the opportunity to prove himself in the Oilers team and came on March 17, 2011 in the home game against the Phoenix Coyotes to his debut in the National Hockey League , in which he played regularly for Edmonton until the end of the season. In the following two seasons he continued to play mostly in the AHL for the Barons, but also came to another 40 NHL games for the Oilers.

After his entry-level contract expired in the summer of 2013, Hartikainen moved to the KHL to Salawat Julajew Ufa and signed a two-year contract.

International

For Finland , Hartikainen took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in 2008 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2009 and 2010 . In the senior sector, he has only been in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Jarmo Wasama Commemorative Trophy
• 2009 top scorer of all SM-liiga - Rookies

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2007/08	KalPa	SM-liiga		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	KalPa	SM-liiga		51	17th	6th	23	12		12	3	0	3	0
2009/10	KalPa	SM-liiga		53	15th	18th	33	22nd		13	6th	1	7th	28
2010/11	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		66	17th	25th	42	27		6th	0	1	1	4th
2010/11	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		12	3	2	5	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		51	14th	18th	32	19th		14th	4th	4th	8th	4th
2011/12	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		17th	2	3	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		23	1	2	3	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Oklahoma City Barons	AHL		47	14th	23	37	23		17th	7th	8th	15th	6th
2013/14	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		47	14th	16	30th	32		18th	2	6th	8th	10
2014/15	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		60	15th	25th	40	62		5	2	2	4th	2
2015/16	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		54	10	29	39	22nd		19th	4th	3	7th	14th
2016/17	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		46	19th	27	36	37		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		55	20th	21st	41	26th		14th	4th	7th	11	12
2018/19	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL		59	17th	28	45	24		17th	8th	13	21st	6th
2019/20	Salawat Yulayev Ufa	KHL
NHL overall				52	6th	7th	13	16		-	-	-	-	-
KHL total				321	95	136	231	167		73	20th	31	51	44
SM-liiga total				105	32	24	56	34		25th	9	1	10	28

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	Finland	U18 World Cup		6th	2	1	3	6th
2009	Finland	U20 World Cup		6th	3	6th	9	4th
2010	Finland	U20 World Cup		6th	4th	2	6th	4th
2015	Finland	WM		4th	1	0	1	0
2018	Finland	Olympia		4th	0	1	1	0
Juniors overall				18th	9	9	18th	14th
Juniors overall				8th	1	1	2	0

( 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

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• Teemu Hartikainen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Teemu Hartikainen at eliteprospects.com (English)