Teuvo Teräväinen

Finland Teuvo Teräväinen


Date of birth	September 11, 1994
place of birth	Helsinki , Finland
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	center
number	# 86
Shot hand	Left

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2011 , 1st round, 23rd position Yaroslavl locomotive
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 1st round, 18th position Chicago Blackhawks

Career stations

2008-2014	Jokerite
2014-2016	Chicago Blackhawks
since 2016	Carolina Hurricanes

Teuvo Teräväinen (born September 11, 1994 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Carolina Hurricanes in the National Hockey League since June 2016 and plays for them in the position of the center .

Career

Teräväinen started his career with the youth club Helsingin Kojoottien in his hometown Helsinki . In 2008 he then moved to the youth department at Jokerit Helsinki, where he went through numerous age groups. In his first two years with the team in the Junior-C-SM-sarja he won the championship in the U16 age group. For the 2010/11 season, Teräväinen moved permanently to Jokerit's U20 team at the age of 16 and was Finnish runner-up in the Junior-A-SM-liiga in the following season. He scored twelve goals and a total of 20 points in eleven missions for the team.

At the same time, Teräväinen made his debut for Jokerit in the SM-liiga , Finland's top division, in the 2011/12 season . He finished the season with 18 points from 40 games, making him the top-scoring U18 player in the league. In the play-offs he was again successful with six points in nine missions and led Jokerit to third place as the second best scorer of his team. At the end of the season, Teräväinen was awarded the Jarmo Wasama commemorative trophy as SM-liiga rookie of the year . Before the NHL Entry Draft 2012 he was in the rankings of the National Hockey League behind the Swede Filip Forsberg in second place among the European field players. In the draft he was finally selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round in 18th place.

In the following season , the Finn was able to significantly increase his points and finished the regular season with 31 points from 44 games as the fifth best scorer of his team. In August 2013, he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Blackhawks and then took part in the team's NHL training camp for the first time . However, he initially returned to Helsinki to gain more experience in the center position and to develop his defensive game. In the 2013/14 season he scored 44 points in 49 appearances for Jokerit and was the top scorer of his team. His 35 assists were also the second best value in the league.

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season, the Finn finally moved to North America and only started with the Blackhawks' farm team , the Rockford IceHogs , in the American Hockey League . During the season he established himself in the NHL squad and contributed ten scorer points in the playoffs, at the end of which the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup .

In June 2016, Teräväinen and Bryan Bickell were handed over to the Carolina Hurricanes , which in return sent a second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2016 and a third-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft 2017 to Chicago. At the Hurricanes, he significantly increased his offensive statistics for the 2017/18 season, scoring 64 points in 82 games. He then signed a new five-year contract in Carolina in January 2019, which is expected to earn him an average annual salary of $ 5.4 million from the start of the 2019/20 season. In the 2018/19 season he was the best scorer of his team alongside his compatriot Sebastian Aho , reached the comference final with the Hurricanes and scored the 2-1 lead against the New York Islanders in the last game of the second playoff round .

International

Teuvo Teräväinen first played for the Finnish U16s in the 2009/10 season before representing Finland in the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge the following year . With seven points from five games, he was the top scorer of his team. He then took part in the 2011 U18 World Junior Championship as the youngest player in the Finnish squad . At the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in the same year Teräväinen was top scorer of the tournament with ten points and reached fourth place with Finland. He also finished fourth with the national team at the U18 Junior World Championship in 2012 and scored eight points in six games over the course of the tournament.

At the U20 Junior World Championship 2013 Teräväinen was again among the best scorers of the Finnish team. His eleven points from six games exceeded only his teammates Markus Granlund and Joel Armia and the Canadian Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in the tournament . However, by finishing fourth in the group, Finland did not qualify for the final round and ended up in seventh place.

The following year, Teräväinen was named team captain of Finland at the 2014 U20 World Youth Championship in Malmö . He finally led Finland as the top scorer of the tournament with 15 points from seven games to win the gold medal for the first time since 1998. In the final against hosts Sweden, he prepared all three of his team's goals, including the winning goal by Rasmus Ristolainen in overtime . In addition to the title of best scorer, Teräväinen was voted into the All-Star Team. His 13 assists and his plus / minus balance of +11 were also tournament best.

After Teräväinen made his debut for the senior national team of Finland on the Euro Hockey Tour 2013/14 , he was also part of the Finnish squad at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

2009 Finnish C-Junior Champion with Jokerit Helsinki
2010 Finnish C-Junior Champion with Jokerit Helsinki
2012 Finnish A-Junior runner-up with Jokerit Helsinki

2012 Jarmo Wasama commemorative trophy
2015 Stanley Cup win with the Chicago Blackhawks

International

2014 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2014 top scorer of the U20 World Junior Championship
2014 Best assists in the U20 Junior World Championship
2014 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2009/10	Jokerit Helsinki U18	Jr. B SM-sarja	29	16	14th	30th	6th	4th	0	4th	4th	0
2010/11	Jokerit Helsinki U18	Jr. B SM-sarja	4th	1	3	4th	2	1	0	1	1	25th
2010/11	Jokerit Helsinki U20	Jr. A SM liiga	26th	3	17th	20th	8th	8th	1	4th	5	4th
2011/12	Jokerit Helsinki U20	Jr. A SM liiga	11	12	8th	20th	4th	2	1	1	2	0
2011/12	Jokerit Helsinki	SM-liiga	40	11	7th	18th	6th	9	2	4th	6th	0
2011/12	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	3	1	2	3	0	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Jokerit Helsinki	SM-liiga	44	13	18th	31	6th	6th	1	1	2	0
2012/13	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	1	0	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Jokerit Helsinki	SM-liiga	49	9	35	44	12	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Rockford IceHogs	AHL	39	6th	19th	25th	6th	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	34	4th	5	9	2	18th	4th	6th	10	0
2015/16	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL	78	13	22nd	35	20th	7th	0	1	1	0
2016/17	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	81	15th	27	42	16	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	82	23	41	64	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	82	21st	55	76	12	15th	7th	3	10	2
SM-liiga total			133	33	60	93	24	15th	3	5	8th	0
NHL overall			360	88	155	243	64	40	11	10	21st	2

International

Represented Finland at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Finland	HIMT	7th place	4th	0	0	0	0
2011	Finland	U17-WHC	7th place	5	2	5	7th	2
2011	Finland	U18 World Cup	5th place	6th	0	0	0	4th
2011	Finland	HIMT	4th Place	5	4th	6th	10	4th
2012	Finland	U18 World Cup	4th Place	6th	2	6th	8th	2
2013	Finland	U20 World Cup	7th place	6th	5	6th	11	2
2014	Finland	U20 World Cup		7th	2	13	15th	2
2016	Finland	World cup	8th place	2	0	0	0	0
2018	Finland	WM	5th place	8th	5	9	14th	8th
Juniors overall				39	15th	36	51	16
Men overall				10	5	9	14th	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 )