Valtteri Filppula

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Valtteri Filppula
Date of birth March 20, 1984
place of birth Vantaa , Finland
Nickname Flip
size 183 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 51
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2002 , 3rd lap, 95th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
until 2000 Kiekko-Vantaa
2000-2005 Jokerit Helsinki
2005-2006 Grand Rapids Griffins
2006-2013 Detroit Red Wings
2013-2017 Tampa Bay Lightning
2017-2018 Philadelphia Flyers
2018-2019 New York Islanders
since 2019 Detroit Red Wings

Valtteri Filppula (born March 20, 1984 in Vantaa ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . Previously was center in the NHL for the New York Islanders , the Philadelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning active. With the Red Wings he won the Stanley Cup in the 2008 playoffs . With the Finnish national team he won, among other things, the bronze medal in the2010 Winter Olympics .

Career

Valtteri Filppula began his career in 2000 in the Jokerit Helsinki U18 team . After a good first season, he was able to switch to the junior senior squad in 2001. With his performance he fell on the scouts of the National Hockey League and the Detroit Red Wings and was selected in the summer of 2002 by Detroit in the third round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft at position 95. He stayed with the juniors for another year and was able to increase his points and thus show what qualities he has as a striker.

In 2003 he was brought to the Jokerit professionals in the SM-liiga . From the end of December 2003 to the beginning of January 2004, the Junior (U20) Ice Hockey World Championship took place. Finland won the bronze medal and Filppula was chosen to be on the tournament's all-star team. In the 2004/05 season, the league was upgraded by some NHL stars who had moved to Europe because of the lockout in the NHL. In the playoffs , Jokerit failed only in the final. Filppula scored 11 points in the 12 playoff games and was the second best scorer of his team in the finals.

In August 2005, he received his first contract with the Detroit Red Wings. The 2005/06 season he completed but mainly with the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Red Wings, in the AHL . There he was able to convince with 70 points, but was only used four times for Detroit during the season. After all, he was the first Finn to play an NHL game for the Detroit Red Wings.

The 2006/07 season Filppula completed completely with the Red Wings in the NHL and established himself on the position of the center. With the Red Wings he moved into the playoffs to the final of the Western Conference. In the following season he prevailed on the center position of the second attack row and developed significantly with 19 goals and 17 assists. In the playoffs he got a total of eleven points, scoring two goals in the final series against the Pittsburgh Penguins when the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup .

In the summer of 2008 Filppula received a new contract with Red Wings with a term of five years. In July 2013, the Finn signed a five-year deal worth $ 25 million with the Tampa Bay Lightning . After three and a half years, however, the Lightning gave it to the Philadelphia Flyers for the trade deadline on March 1, 2017, including a four-round and a success-based seven-round vote in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Mark Streit moved to Tampa.

After the 2017/18 season, his expiring contract in Philadelphia was not extended, so he joined the New York Islanders as a free agent . In the same vein, he returned to the Detroit Red Wings in July 2019. In February 2020, he played his 1,000th regular season game in the NHL.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1998/99 Kiekko-Vantaa C-Jun.-SM-sarja Q 10 1 7th 8th 4th - - - - -
1998/99 Kiekko-Vantaa C-Jun.-I-divisioona - - - - - - - - - -
1999/00 Kiekko-Vantaa C-Jun.-SM-sarja 14th 14th 18th 32 8th 3 2 0 2 0
2000/01 Jokerit Helsinki B-Jun.-SM-sarja 31 18th 29 47 4th 6th 4th 4th 8th 0
2000/01 Jokerit Helsinki A-Jun.-SM-liiga 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2001/02 Jokerit Helsinki B-Jun.-SM-sarja 1 0 1 1 0 8th 4th 9 13 2
2001/02 Jokerit Helsinki A-Jun.-SM-liiga 40 8th 15th 23 14th 1 0 0 0 0
2002/03 Jokerit Helsinki A-Jun.-SM-liiga 35 16 37 53 14th 11 4th 10 14th 4th
2003/04 Jokerit Helsinki SM-liiga 49 5 13 18th 6th - - - - -
2003/04 Finland U20 Mestis 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2004/05 Jokerit Helsinki SM-liiga 55 10 20th 30th 20th 12 5 6th 11 2
2005/06 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 74 20th 51 71 30th 16 7th 9 16 4th
2005/06 Detroit Red Wings NHL 4th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 3 2 2 4th 2 - - - - -
2006/07 Detroit Red Wings NHL 73 10 7th 17th 20th 18th 3 2 5 2
2007/08 Detroit Red Wings NHL 78 19th 17th 36 28 22nd 5 6th 11 2
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 80 12 28 40 42 23 3 13 16 8th
2009/10 Detroit Red Wings NHL 55 11 24 35 24 12 4th 5 9 6th
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 71 16 23 39 22nd 11 2 6th 8th 6th
2011/12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 23 43 66 14th 5 0 2 2 2
2012/13 Jokerit Helsinki SM-liiga 16 6th 9 15th 6th - - - - -
2012/13 Detroit Red Wings NHL 41 9 8th 17th 6th 14th 2 4th 6th 4th
2013/14 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 75 25th 33 58 20th 4th 0 1 1 0
2014/15 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 82 12 36 48 24 26th 4th 10 14th 4th
2015/16 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 76 8th 23 31 46 17th 1 6th 7th 0
2016/17 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 59 7th 27 34 24 - - - - -
2016/17 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 20th 5 3 8th 2 - - - - -
2017/18 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 81 11 22nd 33 20th 6th 1 2 3 2
2018/19 New York Islanders NHL 72 17th 14th 31 16 8th 0 4th 4th 2
2019/20 Detroit Red Wings NHL 70 6th 15th 21st 24 - - - - -
B-Junior-SM-Sarja total 32 18th 30th 48 4th 14th 8th 13 21st 2
A-Juniors-SM-liiga total 76 24 53 77 28 12 4th 10 14th 4th
SM-liiga total 120 21st 42 63 32 12 5 6th 11 2
AHL total 77 22nd 53 75 32 16 7th 9 16 4th
NHL overall 1018 191 324 515 334 166 25th 61 86 38

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2002 Finland U18 World Cup 4th Place 8th 4th 6th 10 2
2003 Finland U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 0 1 1 2
2004 Finland U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 4th 5 9 2
2010 Finland Olympia 3rd place, bronze 6th 3 0 3 0
2012 Finland WM 4th Place 10 4th 6th 10 6th
2016 Finland World cup 8th place 3 1 0 1 0
2017 Finland WM 4th Place 10 2 3 5 12
Juniors overall 21st 8th 12 20th 6th
Men overall 29 10 9 19th 18th

( 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 )

Personal

His older brother Ilari is also a professional ice hockey player.

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personal data
SURNAME Filppula, Valtteri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Vantaa , Finland