Tuomas Grönman (ice hockey player)

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FinlandFinland  Tuomas Grönman Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 22, 1974
place of birth Viitasaari , Finland
size 192 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1992 , 2nd lap, 29th position
Québec Nordiques
Career stations
until 1991 Lukko Rauma
1991-1992 Tacoma Rockets
1992-1994 Lukko Rauma
1994-1996 TPS Turku
1996-1997 Chicago Blackhawks
1997-1998 Pittsburgh Penguins
1998-1999 Kansas City Blades
1999-2000 Jokerit Helsinki
2000-2002 Lukko Rauma
2002-2003 TPS Turku

Tuomas Oskar Grönman (born March 22, 1974 in Viitasaari ) is a former Finnish ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League from 1991 to 2003 .

Career

Tuomas Grönman began his career as a hockey player in the youth of the Finnish first division club Lukko Rauma , in which he was active until 1991. He then played for a year for the Tacoma Rockets in the Western Hockey League before he was selected in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft in the second round as the 29th player of the Québec Nordiques , for which he never played. Instead, the defender returned to his Finnish homeland, where he made his SM-liiga debut for Lukko Rauma in the 1992/93 season . In his rookie year he scored a total of three goals and 14 scorer points in a total of 48 games, after which he was elected to the all-rookie team of the SM-liiga. In the following season, Grönman and his team reached third place in the national championship and moved to their league rivals TPS Turku , with whom the right-handed shooter was Finnish champion for the first and only time in his career in the 1994/95 season . He was also runner-up in 1996 with Turku.

In the summer of 1996 Grönman was committed by the Chicago Blackhawks , for which he was in the following season in 16 games in the National Hockey League a template. However, the Finn spent most of the season with Chicago's Indianapolis Ice farm team in the International Hockey League . After he had started the 1997/98 season again at Indianapolis, Grönman was transferred to the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 27, 1997 in exchange for Greg Johnson , where he was also unable to prevail. In his first year with the Penguins he completed 23 games in the NHL for this and 34 games in the American Hockey League for their farm team Syracuse Crunch , so he was only in four games for Pittsburgh's IHL in the 1998/99 season due to a knee injury - Kansas City Blades farm team on the ice.

In the summer of 1999, Grönman returned to Finland after three years in North America, where he was then runner- up with Jokerit Helsinki . The defender ended his career with his two ex-clubs Lukko Rauma and TPS Turku, for which he was active in the SM-liiga until 2003.

International

For Finland , Grönman took part in the U20 Junior World Championships in 1992 , 1993 and 1994 , and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano .

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 2 38 1 3 4th 38
Playoffs 1 1 0 0 0 0

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personal data
SURNAME Grönman, Tuomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gronman, Tuomas; Grönman, Tuomas Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Viitasaari , Finland