Toni Kirén

Toni Kirén
Date of birth	June 18, 1984
place of birth	Lahti , Finland
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2003-2005	Pelicans Lahti
2005-2006	Haukat Järvenpää
2006-2007	HeKi Heinola
2007	HPK Hämeenlinna
2007-2009	Kärpät Oulu Hokki
2009	HPK Hämeenlinna
2009-2010	KooKoo
since 2010	Kiekko laser

Toni Kirén (born June 18, 1984 in Lahti ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Kiekko-Laser in Mestis since 2010 .

Career

Toni Kirén began his career as a hockey player with the Pelicans Lahti , for which he was active in the SM-liiga from 2003 to 2005 . The defender then moved to Haukat Järvenpää in the second-class Mestis . After only one season he joined their league rivals HeKi Heinola . He was then committed before the 2007/08 season by the first division club HPK Hämeenlinna , for which he only played three games before he received a contract with Kärpät Oulu , with whom he was Finnish champion at the end of the season .

After Kirén started the 2008/09 season at Kärpät and played, among other things, in a group game of the Champions Hockey League for Oulu, he moved to his former club HPK Hämeenlinna at the end of the season. For this he completed 16 games before he was signed by KooKoo in the summer of 2009 .

In 2010 he was signed by the newly promoted Kiekko-Laser from Mestis , where he acts as team captain.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Finnish champion with Kärpät Oulu

SM liiga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	5	105	1	0	1	24
Playoffs	2	12	0	0	0	4th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Toni Kirén at hockeydb.com (English)
• Toni Kirén at eurohockey.com
• Toni Kirén at eliteprospects.com (English)