Niclas Lucenius (born May 3, 1989) 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 ...
center. He is currently playing with
Vaasan Sport of the Finnish
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 ...
. Lucenius was selected by the
Atlanta Thrashers
The Atlanta Thrashers were a professional ice hockey team based in Atlanta. Atlanta was granted a franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL) on June 25, 1997, and became the League's 28th franchise when it began play in the 1999–2000 NHL sea ...
in the 4th round (115th overall) of the
2007 NHL Entry Draft.
Lucenius played for
Tappara in
SM-liiga from 2007 to 2011. He later reached agreement with
Dinamo Riga played in
Kontinental Hockey League in the
2011–12 season.
After parts of two seasons abroad, Lucenius returned to Finland during the
2016-17 season, joining
LeKi of the
Mestis.
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1989 births
Atlanta Thrashers draft picks
HC '05 Banská Bystrica players
Dinamo Riga players
Düsseldorfer EG players
ETC Crimmitschau players
Finnish ice hockey centres
HPK players
Kiekko-Vantaa players
Living people
Lempäälän Kisa players
SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers players
Tappara players
TuTo players
HC TPS players
Vaasan Sport players
Ice hockey people from Turku
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Latvia
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Slovakia
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in France
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Austria
Krefeld Pinguine players
Dragons de Rouen players
EHC Lustenau players
21st-century Finnish sportsmen
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