Tomi Kallio

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Tomi Kallio
Date of birth January 27, 1977
place of birth Turku , Finland
size 184 cm
Weight 85 kg
position Left wing
number # 71
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 4th lap, 81st position
Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
until 2000 TPS Turku
2000-2002 Atlanta Thrashers
2002-2003 Columbus Blue Jackets
2003 Philadelphia Flyers
2003-2011 Frölunda HC
2011-2015 Vaxjo Lakers
since 2015 TPS Turku

Tomi Kristian Kallio (born January 27, 1977 in Turku ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with TPS in the Liiga since July 2015 .

Career

Tomi Kallio began his career as a hockey player in the youth of TPS Turku , for whose professional team he made his debut in the SM-liiga in the 1995/96 season . He was previously selected in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round as the 81st player of the Colorado Avalanche . However, this never got him to sign an NHL contract. Instead, the attacker won the European Hockey League with Turku in 1997 and was runner-up in 1996 and 1997, and Finnish champions for the first time in the 1998/99 season .

After Kallio had reached third place in the European Hockey League in the 1999/2000 season , he moved to North America , where he received a contract with the Atlanta Thrashers from the National Hockey League . The Thrashers selected the Finn from the Colorado Avalanche's pool of players in the 1999 NHL Expansion Draft . Kallio had to leave the young team from Atlanta after two years - at the beginning of the 2002/03 season  - after the Thrashers had given him to the Columbus Blue Jackets in a four-player transfer deal . There he found his way just as little as with the Philadelphia Flyers , who had selected him from the waiver list a month after being transferred to the Blue Jackets . Kallio's engagement in Philadelphia ended after just three weeks when the winger was released from his contract in late January 2003 and ended the season at Frölunda HC in the Swedish Elitserien . That season he won the first Swedish championship title . With Frölunda Kallio won the Swedish championship again in the 2004/05 season .

After eight years, Kallio left Frölunda HC and joined its league rivals Växjö Lakers for the 2011/12 season , with whom he won the Swedish championship again in the 2014/15 season . In summer 2015 the Finn returned to his hometown club TPS in the Liiga .

International

For Finland , Kallio took part in the U18 European Junior Championships in 1995 , the U20 Junior World Championships in 1996 and 1997 , and the World Championships in 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 and 2007 . He was also in Finland's squad at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Overall, Kallio was able to win three silver and two bronze medals at international tournaments.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1996 Finnish runner-up with TPS Turku
  • 1997 European Hockey League win with TPS Turku
  • 1997 Finnish runner-up with TPS Turku
  • 1999 Finnish champion with TPS Turku
  • 2000 3rd place in the European Hockey League with TPS Turku
  • 2000 Finnish champion with TPS Turku

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 TPS Turku SM-liiga 8th 2 3 5 10 4th 0 0 0 2
1996/97 TPS Turku SM-liiga 47 9 10 19th 18th 8th 2 0 2 2
1997/98 TPS Turku SM-liiga 47 10 10 20th 8th 4th 0 2 2 0
1998/99 TPS Turku SM-liiga 54 15th 21st 36 20th 10 3 4th 7th 6th
1999/2000 TPS Turku SM-liiga 50 26th 27 53 40 11 4th 9 13 4th
2000/01 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 56 14th 13 27 22nd - - - - -
2001/02 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 60 8th 14th 22nd 12 - - - - -
2002/03 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 5 0 2 2 4th - - - - -
2002/03 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 12 1 2 3 8th - - - - -
2002/03 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 7th 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
2002/03 Frölunda HC Elitserien 10 6th 8th 14th 10 16 8th 8th 16 14th
2003/04 Frölunda HC Elitserien 50 24 17th 41 54 10 5 8th 13 6th
2004/05 Frölunda HC Elitserien 50 18th 19th 37 24 14th 7th 6th 13 6th
2005/06 Frölunda HC Elitserien 49 26th 25th 51 68 17th 6th 9 15th 32
2006/07 Frölunda HC Elitserien 55 18th 36 54 103 - - - - -
2007/08 Frölunda HC Elitserien 54 27 20th 47 54 7th 1 4th 5 6th
2008/09 Frölunda HC Elitserien 55 19th 15th 34 95 11 4th 5 9 6th
2009/10 Frölunda HC Elitserien 55 18th 22nd 40 40 7th 2 6th 8th 6th
2010/11 Frölunda HC Elitserien 55 12 18th 30th 36 - - - - -
2011/12 Vaxjo Lakers Elitserien 43 12 17th 29 18th - - - - -
2012/13 Vaxjo Lakers Elitserien 55 12 17th 29 18th - - - - -
2013/14 Vaxjo Lakers SHL 55 11 22nd 33 12 8th 0 3 3 2
SM-liiga total 206 62 71 133 96 37 9 15th 24 14th
NHL overall 140 24 31 55 48 - - - - -
SHL total 586 203 236 439 532 90 33 49 82 78

( 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 )

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