Juuso Akkanen (born December 22, 1983) is a Finnish professional

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 ...

player and coach who played with

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in the

SM-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 Mest ...

during the 2010-11 season. Akkanen has played most of his career in

Mestis Mestis (from , meaning 'Championship series', stylized as MEST1S) is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division ...

, however. In the 2017–2018 season, he became the player who played the second most regular season games (500) in the series after Aki Keinänen. Akkanen won the Mestis championship in

Mikkelin Jukurit Mikkelin Jukurit is a professional ice hockey team in Liiga, the top tier Finnish ice hockey league. They play in Mikkeli, Finland, at the Kalevankankaan jäähalli (also known as Let's Go Areena for sponsorship reasons). The team has won seven ...

in 2013 and 2015.

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* 1983 births Living people Finnish ice hockey defencemen HC TPS players Ice hockey people from Rauma, Finland 21st-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub