Ville Vahalahti

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Ville Vahalahti
Date of birth November 7th 1977
place of birth Parainen , Finland
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1998-2007 TPS Turku
2007-2008 Linköpings HC
2008-2013 TPS Turku
since 2013 Lukko Rauma

Ville Vahalahti (born November 7, 1977 in Parainen ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Lukko Rauma in the SM-liiga since May 2013 .

Career

Ville Vahalahti began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of TPS Turku . As a junior player, he came on loan to six missions between 1995 and 1997, in which he scored a goal, for Kiekko-67 in the I divisioona, the second Finnish division. In the 1998-99 season, the winger made his debut for the first team of TPS in the SM-liiga and was in his rookie year at first Finnish Champion with his team. Much of the season he spent as a loan player at the second division TuTo Hockey , for which he scored 33 points in 21 games, including 15 goals. For this reason he was named Rookie of the Year at I divisioona. In the seasons 1999/2000 and 2000/01 he won the Finnish championship title again with TPS. In the following years he was one of the leading players at TPS, but did not come with his team beyond a runner-up in the 2003/04 season . In the 2006/07 season he was appointed team captain of TPS and completed the best points season of his career with 44 scorer points in a total of 56 SM-liiga missions.

In the 2007/08 season Vahalahti ran for the Linköpings HC in the Swedish Elitserien , with which he failed only in the playoff final on HV71 . He then returned to TPS Turku, where he was first assistant captain in the 2008/09 season and finally team captain again in the following season . In the second year after his return to Turku, he and his home club were Finnish champions for the fourth time in his career.

In May 2013, Vahalahti moved from TPS to Lukko Rauma after leading the TPS squad as team captain for four years.

International

For Finland , Vahalahti took part in the 2009 World Cup. He was also in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2003 and 2009 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 Kiekko-67 I-divisioona 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1996/97 Kiekko-67 I-divisioona 4th 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
1998/99 TuTo I divisioona 21st 15th 18th 33 8th - - - - -
1998/99 TPS SM-liiga 31 8th 5 13 2 10 2 2 4th 4th
1999/00 TPS SM-liiga 53 15th 15th 30th 22nd 10 3 1 4th 0
2000/01 TPS SM-liiga 53 12 15th 27 6th 10 3 4th 7th 4th
2001/02 TPS SM-liiga 56 11 24 35 12 8th 1 3 4th 2
2002/03 TPS SM-liiga 54 15th 24 39 34 7th 1 2 3 0
2003/04 TPS SM-liiga 50 18th 22nd 40 10 4th 0 0 0 0
2004/05 TPS SM-liiga 46 11 19th 30th 10 6th 1 0 1 2
2005/06 TPS SM-liiga 56 15th 10 25th 28 2 0 1 1 6th
2006/07 TPS SM-liiga 54 21st 23 44 14th 2 0 0 0 0
2007/08 Linköpings HC Elitserien 53 4th 8th 12 8th 16 0 0 0 2
2008/09 TPS SM-liiga 58 15th 19th 34 20th 8th 3 3 6th 12
2009/10 TPS SM-liiga 57 21st 26th 47 24 15th 4th 8th 12 6th
2010/11 TPS SM-liiga 27 5 19th 24 10 - - - - -
2011/12 TPS SM-liiga 59 21st 29 50 8th 2 0 0 0 0
2012/13 TPS SM-liiga 52 8th 24 32 18th - - - - -
2013/14 Lukko SM-liiga

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Vahalahti, Ville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 7th 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Parainen , Finland