Ville Leino

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Ville Leino
Date of birth October 6, 1983
place of birth Savonlinna , Finland
size 185 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2002 SaPKo Savonlinna
2002-2005 Ilves Tampere
2005-2007 HPK Hämeenlinna
2007-2008 Jokerit Helsinki
2008-2010 Detroit Red Wings
2010-2011 Philadelphia Flyers
2011-2014 Buffalo Sabers
2014-2015 KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2015-2016 Dinamo Riga
2016-2017 Växjö Lakers Hockey

Ville Leino (born October 6, 1983 in Savonlinna ) is a former Finnish ice hockey striker who was active in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings , Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabers .

Career

Finland (2000-2008)

Ville Leino began his career in 2000 with his hometown club SaPKo Savonlinna . He initially played for the youth team in the second Finnish junior league, but in his first year he also made two appearances in the senior squad in the third-class Suomi-sarja . In two years with the SaPKo juniors, he was able to prove his scoring qualities when he scored 50 goals and contributed 48 assists in a total of 45 games. But he was also able to make a good impression on the seniors with twelve points in 17 games.

In 2002 Leino moved to Ilves Tampere and played in the first-class SM-liiga in the 2002/03 season . He scored once in 23 games and prepared a goal. At the same time he also played for the first and second team of the Ilves Juniors. 2003/04 was finally a permanent member of the professional squad and only missed two league games. Leino developed significantly compared to the previous season and came up with 24 scorer points. The following year, however, his performance stagnated and he ended the season with five points less.

For the 2005/06 season , Leino moved to HPK Hämeenlinna , where he immediately made a significant leap in performance and rose to become an important performer within the team. In his first year he was the best scorer of his team with 43 points and took tenth place in the scorer list of the SM-liiga. In addition, he was the fifth best preparer of the season with 31 assists. He was also able to build on his good form in the playoffs and led the team to win the Finnish championship as HPK's best playoff scorer .

With eleven goals and 29 assists, Leino showed similar good performances in the 2006/07 season as in the previous season. And in the playoffs he was again one of the top performers at HPK, but the team failed already in the semifinals to Jokerit Helsinki , with whom Leino signed a contract after the end of the season. In addition, he reached the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup with HPK , where the team was clearly defeated by the Russian representative Ak Bars Kazan with 0: 6.

In 2007/08 , Leino finally developed into a leading top player within the SM-liiga. With 28 goals he took third place on the top scorer list, was the best assists in the league with 49 assists and was only one point behind Janne Pesonen in second place on the scorer list . Jokerit finished the regular season in third place, but in the first round of the playoffs the team had to fight hard for a place in the semifinals, where they should meet the Espoo Blues . Jokerit was already leading in the semi-finals in the best-of-seven series against the Blues 3-1 and was already close to the second finals in a row, but Espoo turned the series with three wins in a row and Jokerit could only get into the game to collect the bronze medal, but where they lost to Tappara . As in the regular season, Leino took second place on the scorer list in the playoffs and was awarded the Lasse-Oksanen trophy as the best player in the main round and the Kultainen kypärä as the best player of the entire season.

North America (2008-2014)

In the meantime, the North American teams had noticed him and in May 2008, the Detroit Red Wings from the NHL signed him for a year. A few months later he was able to bring convincing performances in the Red Wings training camp, but was initially sent to the AHL , where he is supposed to get used to the North American style of play at the Grand Rapids Griffins . Leino was the top scorer of the Griffins at the start of the season, but stumbled in the meantime and was then again an important support for the team with constant performances. On January 31, 2009, he finally made his debut in the NHL against the Washington Capitals and contributed a hit. Leino also convinced in the following games with a total of nine points in 13 games, but was sent back to the AHL in early March, where he reached the second round of the playoffs with the Griffins and contributed 13 points in 10 games. After the elimination, he was called up for the second time to the Red Wings, where he was used for a few games in the finals when they advanced to the Stanley Cup finals, but failed there because of the Pittsburgh Penguins .

In the summer of 2009, the Red Wings extended his contract by two years and he got a regular place in the NHL squad. However, he could not live up to expectations, so that he was even put on the stands for several games, although up to three other regular attackers were missing injured. When the return of the injured Johan Franzén was announced in early February 2010 , Leino was finally transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers so that the Red Wings' salary cap is not exceeded. On July 1, 2011, Leino signed a six-year contract with the Buffalo Sabers . Following the 2013/14 season, the Sabers bought themselves out of the three-year contract, so he was looking for a new employer as an unrestricted free agent .

Return to Europe (since 2014)

In October 2014 he was signed by the KHL Medveščak Zagreb from the KHL and completed 28 games for the club, in which he collected 15 points. In February 2015 it was handed over to the Kloten Flyers . He returned to the KHL in July 2015 when he signed a contract with Dinamo Riga . After his contract in Riga was terminated in December 2015, Leino moved to Sweden a month later and joined Växjö Lakers Hockey from Svenska Hockeyligan , where he ended his career in October 2017.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2013/14 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2000/01 SaPKo Savonlinna A-Jun.-I-divisioona 19th 14th 12 26th 0 - - - - -
SaPKo Savonlinna Suomi-sariah 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2001/02 SaPKo Savonlinna A-Jun.-I-divisioona 26th 36 36 72 14th 4th 2 5 7th 2
SaPKo Savonlinna Suomi-sariah 15th 6th 6th 12 4th - - - - -
2002/03 Ilves Tampere SM-liiga 23 1 1 2 0 - - - - -
Ilves Tampere Suomi-sariah 15th 8th 16 24 10 - - - - -
Ilves Tampere A-Jun.-SM-liiga 11 6th 5 11 14th - - - - -
2003/04 Ilves Tampere SM-liiga 54 9 15th 24 26th 7th 1 1 2 4th
Ilves Tampere A-Jun.-SM-liiga 5 4th 6th 10 6th - - - - -
2004/05 Ilves Tampere SM-liiga 56 8th 11 19th 32 7th 1 0 1 2
2005/06 HPK Hämeenlinna SM-liiga 56 12 31 43 65 13 3 9 12 4th
2006/07 HPK Hämeenlinna SM-liiga 50 11 29 40 73 8th 1 9 10 31
2007/08 Jokerit Helsinki SM-liiga 55 28 49 77 18th 14th 8th 11 19th 8th
2008/09 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 57 15th 31 46 18th 10 3 10 13 10
Detroit Red Wings NHL 13 5 4th 9 6th 7th 0 2 2 0
2009/10 Detroit Red Wings NHL 42 4th 3 7th 6th - - - - -
Philadelphia Flyers NHL 13 2 2 4th 4th 19th 7th 14th 21st 6th
2010/11 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 81 19th 34 53 22nd 11 3 2 5 0
2011/12 Buffalo Sabers NHL 71 8th 17th 25th 16 - - - - -
2012/13 Buffalo Sabers NHL 8th 2 4th 6th 6th - - - - -
2013/14 Buffalo Sabers NHL 58 0 15th 15th 10 - - - - -
A-Juniors-I-divisioona total 60 58 64 122 24 4th 2 5 7th 2
A-Juniors-SM-liiga total 16 10 11 21st 20th - - - - -
Suomi-sarja overall 17th 6th 6th 12 4th - - - - -
SM-liiga total 294 69 136 205 214 49 14th 30th 44 49
AHL total 57 15th 31 46 18th 10 3 10 13 10
NHL overall 286 40 79 119 70 37 10 18th 28 6th

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Red Wings trade Leino to Flyers for Tollefsen . The Sports Network . February 6, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
  2. ^ NHL Free Agent Tracker . In: The Sports Network . Retrieved July 1, 2011.
  3. ^ Sabers place Leino on Waivers for Purpose of Buyout. cbssports.com, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Dustin Nelson: Ville Leino Signs With Dinamo Riga. In: thehockeywriters.com. July 23, 2015, accessed September 8, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Leino, Ville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Savonlinna , Finland