HPK

Finnish ice hockey club

Owner(s)HPK Liiga OyGeneral managerAntti ToivanenHead coachMaso LehtonenCaptainJuuso HietanenParent club(s)HPK Edustusjääkiekko ryWebsitehpk.fi

ChampionshipsPlayoff championships2006, 2019

Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (HPK) is a professional ice hockey team in the Liiga, the top men's ice hockey league in Finland. Their home ice is the Ritari-areena in Hämeenlinna. HPK was established in 1929. The parent club of the team is HPK Edustusjääkiekko ry^[1] and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights," with a logo representing a knight's helmet. HPK won their first SM-liiga championship in 2006 and the second in 2019.^[2]

Honours

Champions

SM-liiga Kanada-malja (2): 2006, 2019

Runners-up

SM-liiga (3): 1952, 1993, 2010
SM-liiga (9): 1954, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007

Other awards for the club:

I-Divisioona (it was the second level of ice hockey in Finland) (5): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988

Players

2019-2020

Goalkeepers

01 Tuomas Aalto
35 Antti Karjalainen
60 Rasmus Reijola
83 Joona Voutilainen

Defenders

06 Niklas Friman (C)
10 Atso Lehtinen
25 Roope Laavainen
38 Miro Karjalainen
42 Arto Laatikainen (A)
43 Otto Latvala
44 Paavo Tyni
53 Nico Nurmikanta
63 Elmeri Eronen
74 Petteri Nikkilä (A)

Forwards

14 Mikko Lahtela
15 Santtu Hakanen
16 Jere Jokinen
19 Cody Kunyk
21 Jere Innala
26 Tommi Tikka
27 Filip Krivosik
28 Markus Nenonen (A)
29 Miro Ruokonen
34 Erkka Seppälä
40 Janne Tavi
45 Henri Kanninen
48 Valtteri Puustinen
49 Kasperi Heinänen
51 Philippe Cornet
71 Niclas Lucenius
81 Joona Monto
86 Kristjan Kombe

Honored members

02 Eero Salisma
09 Jyrki Louhi
13 Marko Palo
17 Juha Hietanen
18 Hannu Savolainen
36 Marko Tuulola

NHL alumni

References

^ "HPK:n liigatoiminta yhtiöityy" [HPK Liiga Operations have been Incorporated]. Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (in Finnish). 9 April 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^ "Liiga".