Matias Haaranen (born 11 July 1996) is a Finnish/Romanian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the l ...

. He is currently playing with the HK Gyergyoi in the Hungarian

Erste Liga (ice hockey) The Erste Liga (formerly the MOL Liga) is an international ice hockey league organized for clubs based in Hungary and Romania. It is sponsored by the Erste Group, Erste Bank Hungary. The games played between the Hungarian teams count towards t ...

and Romanian Campionatul National leagues. Haaranen made his

Liiga The Liiga, colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. The league comprises 16 teams from all around Finland with relegation and promotion between the Mesti ...

debut playing with HPK during the 2014–15 Liiga season.

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* 1996 births Living people Finnish ice hockey defencemen HPK players Lempäälän Kisa players Sportspeople from Riihimäki TuTo players Ice hockey people from Kanta-Häme 21st-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub