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JYP Jyväskylä Naiset
JYP Naiset or JYP Jyväskylä Naiset is a Finnish ice hockey team in the Naisten Mestis. Their home is the Jyväskylän harjoitusjäähalli ('Jyväskylä training ice hall') in Jyväskylä, Central Finland. JYP Naiset have won the Aurora Borealis Cup three times, in 1997, 1998, and 2016. The team is the successor of two teams: JyP Hockey Team (HT) Naiset, which existed from 1989 to 2000 and used the name JYP Naiset during the period 1997 to 2000, and Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC), which was founded in 1996 and was known as the Cats Jyväskylä during 2004 to 2009 and JYP Naiset from 2009 to present. They are the women's representative team of the ice hockey club JYP Juniorit ry and are loosely affiliated with JYP Jyväskylä of the Liiga. History JyP HT/JYP The first JYP Naiset franchise was founded in 1989 as JyP HT Naiset by the ice hockey club JYP Jyväskylä Oy. The team competed in the Naisten I-divisioona during 1989 to 1995 and in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Central Finland. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Jyväskylä is approximately , while the Jyväskylä sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is Finland's most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality, and fifth most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area. Jyväskylä is located about northeast of Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about north of Helsinki, the national capital. The Jyväskylä sub-region includes Jyväskylä, Hankasalmi, Laukaa, Muurame, Petäjävesi, Toivakka, and Uurainen. Other neighbouring municipalities of Jyväskylä are Joutsa, Jämsä and Luhanka. Jyväskylä is the largest city in the Central Finland and Finnish Lakeland region. Jyväskylä was one of the fastest growing cities in Finland during the 20th century; in 1940, there were only 8,000 inhabitants in Jyväskylä. Elias Lönnrot, the auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsi Hänninen
Kirsi Maaria Hänninen (born 3 October 1976 in Joensuu, Finland) is a Finnish retired ice hockey defenceman and pesäpallo player. She played 116 games with the Finnish national ice hockey team and won a bronze medal with them in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Playing career Over her ten-year ice hockey career, Hänninen played with five different teams in the Naisten SM-sarja, the highest level women's hockey league in Finland. She spent four seasons, from 1996 to 2000, with JYP Jyväskylä and won the SM-sarja Championship with them in 1996 and 1997. She also played with JoKP (1992–93), Kiekko-Espoo (1993–94), KalPa (1995–96), and Oulun Kärpät (2001-02). Hänninen is well known in Finland for her career in the Superpesis, Finland's top pesäpallo league, where she competed from 1993 to 2005 and was a five-time Finnish Champion. Personal life Hänninen is a founding member of VRT Finland VRT may refer to: * VRT (broadcaster), Flem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilma Tarvainen
Vilma is a feminine first name. People named Vilma include: *Ana Vilma de Escobar (b. 1954), Salvadoran politician *Vilma Åhlström (b. 2000), Swedish curler *Vilma Álvarez (b. 1970), Cuban softball player *Vilma Bánky (1901–1991), Hungarian silent film actress *Vilma Bardauskienė (born 1953), Lithuanian long jumper *Vilma Beck (1810–1851), Hungarian writer and freedom fighter *Vilma Charlton (born 1946), Jamaican sprinter *Vilma Cibulková (born 1963), Czech film and stage actress * Vilma Covane (b. 1996), Mozambican basketball player *Vilma Degischer (1911–1992), Austrian actress * Vilma Ebsen (1911–2007), American musical theatre and film actress, sister of actor Buddy Ebsen *Vilma Egresi (1936–1979), Hungarian sprint canoer *Vilma Espín (1930–2007), Cuban revolutionary, feminist and chemical engineer, wife of Raúl Castro *Vilma Ferrán (1940–2014), Argentine actress *Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927), Hungarian reformer and activist *Vilma Ronalyn Greenlees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 latter a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen generally position themselves along the line to keep the puck in the zone). They were once called cover-point. In regular play, two defencemen complement three Forward (ice hockey), forwards and a goaltender on the ice. Exceptions include Overtime (ice hockey), overtime during the regular season and when a team is short-handed (i.e. has been assessed a penalty), in which two defencemen are typically joined by only two forwards and a goaltender; when a team is on the Power play (sporting term), power play (i.e. the opponent has been assessed a penalty), teams will often play only one defenceman, joined by four forwards and a goal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Tuomanen
Anne Tuomanen (born 15 April 1987) is a Finnish retired ice hockey winger and former member of the Finnish national team, who played in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) for fifteen seasons. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning Finnish team at the 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship and the silver medal-winning team at the 2011 Winter Universiade In total, Tuomanen represented Finland in 76 international matches, including at the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship and at the 2011 MLP Nations Cup. Playing career Tuomanen played in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) with the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC; renamed Cats Jyväskylä in 2004) during 2002 to 2007, HPK during 2009 to 2011 and 2015–16, and the Tampereen Ilves during 2011 to 2015 and from 2016 until her retirement in 2019. Over the course of her career, she played more than 350 Naisten Liiga regular season games and skated in 75 playoff games. She won the Finnish Championship in 2011 with HPK, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saila Saari
Saila Saari (born 1 November 1989) is a Finnish retired ice hockey forward. She represented in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal, and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2015 and 2016. Saari played the entirety of her club career in the Finnish . She is a three-time champion, having won the Finnish Championship with |
Niina Mäkinen
Niina Mäkinen (born 18 April 1992) is a Finnish retired ice hockey forward and former member of the Finnish national team. She represented Finland at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2011, 2013, and 2015. Her senior club career was played in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017 and Auroraliiga in 2024) with Cats Jyväskylä, Team Oriflame, and Oulun Kärpät Oulun Kärpät (Finnish language, Finnish for "Oulu Stoat, Ermines", sometimes referred to as Kärpät Oulu) is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Oulu and playing in the top-tier Finnish Liiga. Kärpät have won the Finnish champion .... References External links * 1992 births Living people Cats Jyväskylä players Finnish ice hockey right wingers Finnish women's ice hockey forwards Naisten Liiga All-Stars Oulun Kärpät Naiset players People from Hankasalmi Team Kuortane players Ice hockey people from Central Finland 21st-century Finnish sportswomen {{Finland-ic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Ice Hockey
Junior ice hockey is amateur-level ice hockey for 16 to 20 year-old players. National Junior teams compete annually for the IIHF World Junior Championship. The United States men's national junior ice hockey team are the defending champions from the 2024 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Hockey Canada There are four levels of Junior hockey in the Canadian Club System: 1. Major Junior, 2. Junior A, 3. Junior B, and 4. Junior C. Not all teams playing in Canadian Junior leagues are based in Canada. , there were approximately twelve US-based teams playing in various Major Junior and Junior A leagues in Canada. In 2023, BC Hockey announced plans to restructure its Junior framework following the departure of its only Junior A league. Its three Junior B leagues ( PJHL, KIJHL and VIJHL) were re-styled as "Junior A Tier 2", with plans to promote some to "Junior A Tier 1" following an independent evaluation. It was expected that those teams promoted to "Junior A Tier 1" would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanne Sikiö
Hanne Erika Sikiö (born 19 March 1978) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player. She represented in the Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament, women's ice hockey tournament at the 2002 Winter Olympics and at three IIHF World Women's Championship, IIHF Women's World Championship tournaments, winning bronze in 1999 IIHF Women's World Championship, 1999 and 2000 IIHF Women's World Championship, 2000. Sikiö played four seasons with the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey program, from 1999 to 2003, making her one of the earliest List of Finnish women in North American collegiate ice hockey, Finns in North American collegiate women's ice hockey, Career stats Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake 2002 References External links * * * * 1978 births Living people Finnish women's ice hockey forwards HPK Kiekkonaiset players Tappara players Ilves Naiset players Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanna Peura
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Riikka Noronen
Riikka Noronen (born 23 November 1982) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and retired forward, currently an assistant coach with Tampereen Ilves Naiset. The all-time leading point scorer in the Naisten Liiga, she also holds the records for youngest player to ever play in the Naisten Liiga and for most career games played. Playing career Noronen began playing in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) with JyP HT when she was twelve years old. She holds the records for youngest player to ever play in the league, score a goal, and notch an assist. Across 25 seasons active in the Naisten Liiga, Noronen played with four clubs: JYP Jyväskylä (also known as JyP HT, JyHC, and Cats Jyväskylä) during 1995–2001 and 2004–2009; Tampereen Ilves during 2000–01, 2002 to 2004, and 2017 to 2019; the women's representative team of Tappara during 2001–02; and HPK Kiekkonaiset during 2008 to 2017 and 2019 to 2022. She won the Finnish Championship three times, first in 1997 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Lehto
Katja Maarit Lehto (born 14 August 1972) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player. She played with the Finnish national ice hockey team throughout the 1990s and won a bronze medal at the inaugural Olympic women's ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics. With the national team, she also won bronze at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 1999 and 2000, and gold at the 1995 IIHF European Women Championship. Lehto’s club career was played in the Naisten SM-sarja with KalPa Naiset Kalevan Pallo Naiset (), abbreviated as KalPa Naiset, are an ice hockey team in the Auroraliiga. Founded in 1990, the team plays in Kuopio, the largest city in Finland's eastern-central province of North Savo, at the Kuopion jäähalli (unoffici ... and JYP Naiset. References 1972 births Living people Ice hockey people from Jyväskylä Finnish women's ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
