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Tero continents
Date of birth	June 14, 1985
place of birth	Helsinki , Finland
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2006	Jokerit Helsinki
2006-2008	Ässät Pori
2008	TPS Turku
2008-2009	Espoo Blues
2009	KooKoo
2009-2010	Jokipojat
2010-2011	IK Oskarshamn
2011	Malmo Redhawks
since 2011	Herning Blue Fox

Tero Konttinen (born June 14, 1985 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Herning Blue Fox in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen since October 2011 .

Career

Tero Konttinen began his career as a hockey player in the youth team of Jokerit Helsinki , in whose youth teams he was active from 2000 to 2005 and with whose B youth he became Finnish champion in 2003. In the 2005/06 season the defender made his debut in the SM-liiga for Jokerit's professional team. In addition, Konttinen played for Kiekko-Vantaa in the Mestis this season . In the summer of 2006 he received a contract with Jokertis league rivals Ässät Pori , for which he was the following year and a half in the top Finnish league on the ice, before moving to TPS Turku during the 2007/08 season.

After the left shooter had played again at the beginning of the 2008/09 season, initially for TPS Turku, and then for Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Elitserien and KooKoo Kouvola in the Mestis, he was signed by the Finnish first division club Espoo Blues , for which he was in until the end of the season There were a total of five assists in 18 games. In the 2009/10 season Konttinen went for Jokipojat in the Mestis and won the championship of the second highest Finnish league with the team at the end of the season. The following season the Finn moved to IK Oskarshamn in the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan . For the 2011/12 season, he initially moved within the second Swedish division to the Malmö Redhawks , before signing a contract with the Danish first division club Herning Blue Fox in October 2011 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Finnish B-Junior Champion with Jokerit Helsinki
• 2010 Master of the Mestis with Jokipojat

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
SM-liiga main round	4th	124	7th	33	40	52
SM-liiga playoffs	1	2	0	0	0	2
Elitserien main round	1	9	0	1	1	2
Elitserien Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Tero Konttinen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Tero Konttinen at hockeydb.com (English)
• Tero Konttinen at eurohockey.com