Tom Koivisto

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Tom Koivisto
Date of birth 4th June 1974
place of birth Turku , Finland
size 179 cm
Weight 82 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2002 , 8th lap, 253rd position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1992-1995 TPS Turku
1995-1999 HPK Hämeenlinna
1999-2002 Jokerit Helsinki
2002-2004 Worcester IceCats
2004 Springfield Falcons
2004-2006 Frölunda HC
2006-2008 Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
2008-2010 Jokerit Helsinki
2010–2012 Tingsryd's AIF

Tom Koivisto (born June 4, 1974 in Turku ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who was most recently under contract with Tingsryds AIF in HockeyAllsvenskan .

Career

Tom Koivisto began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of TPS Turku , for whose professional team he was in the SM-liiga for two and a half years from 1992 and for whose farm team Kiekko-67 Turku he was active in the second-class I divisioona during the same period . During this period, he and his team were Finnish champions for the first time in the 1992/93 season and runner-up in 1994. During the 1994/95 season , the defender moved to TPS 'league rivals HPK Hämeenlinna , for whom he played a total of four and a half years. He was then under contract with Jokerit Helsinki from 1999 to 2002 . With the capital club he was first runner-up in 2000 and finally champion in the 2001/02 season . In the championship year he was elected to the All-Star Team of the SM-liiga and received the Pekka-Rautakallio trophy as the best defender in the league .

In the 2002 NHL Entry Draft Koivisto was selected in the eighth round as a total of 253rd player by the St. Louis Blues . In his only season in the National Hockey League , the 2002/03 season , he scored a total of two goals and four assists in 22 games for the St. Louis Blues. At the same time he played for their farm team Worcester IceCats mostly in the American Hockey League . In the following season , the Finnish international played exclusively for Worcester, whereupon the Blues transferred him to the Phoenix Coyotes on March 9, 2004 . There he was only used for their AHL farm team Springfield Falcons , whereupon he returned to Europe, where he spent two seasons for Frölunda HC in the Swedish Elitserien , with whom he was in the 2004/05 season, from 2004 to 2008 Swedish champion and a year later was runner, and the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the Swiss National League A .

From 2008 to 2010 Koivisto was on the ice for Jokerit Helsinki in the SM-liiga. He then signed a contract with the Swedish club Tingsryds AIF from HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division.

International

For Finland , Koivisto took part in the junior division of the European Junior Championships in 1992, as well as the Junior World Championships in 1993 and 1994 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2002 World Cup and the 2005 Euro Hockey Tour .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 1 22nd 2 4th 6th 10
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
AHL regular season 2 92 8th 34 42 60
AHL playoffs 1 3 0 0 0 0
Elitserien main round 2 90 15th 35 50 142
Elitserien Playoffs 2 31 6th 3 9 44
NLA main round 2 83 14th 27 41 137
NLA playoffs 2 10 0 5 5 12

(Status: end of the 2011/12 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ smp.se, Tom Koivisto klar för Tingsryd ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smp.se
  2. ↑ NHL-meriterad back klar för Tingsryd. In: aftonbladet .se. March 10, 2011, accessed November 13, 2018 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Koivisto, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Turku , Finland