Kai Rautio (born July 22, 1964) is a Finnish former 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 ...

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 ...

. Rautio played 12 seasons 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 ...

, registering 68 goals, 110 assists, 178 points, and 326 penalty minutes, while playing 535 games with four teams between 1985–86 and 1998–99. Rautio began the

2013–14 Liiga season The 2013–14 SM-liiga season is the 39th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. The title was won by Kärpät who defeated Tappara in the finals. This was the first season in which th ...

as the head coach for HPK, but was replaced on October 14, 2014, by Pasi Arvonen.

References

External links

* 1964 births Living people Finnish ice hockey coaches Finnish ice hockey defencemen HIFK (ice hockey) players KalPa players HPK players Oulun Kärpät players Ice hockey people from Oulu {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub