Reijo Hakanen (born August 20, 1943) is a retired 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 who played 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 ...

for

Ilves Tampereen Ilves, commonly known as Ilves, (; Finnish language, Finnish for "Eurasian lynx, Lynx") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Tampere. They play in the Liiga at the Nokia Arena (Tampere), Nokia Arena. The colors of Ilves, ...

. He was born in

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and inducted into the

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in 1988. Hakanen was known for his small size and clean style of play; he never received more than 10 minutes in penalties during a season. He was selected as the Gentlemanary Player of SM-liiga in 1972 and received the Raimo Kilpiö trophy.

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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
Finnish ice hockey forwards Ilves players Sportspeople from Kangasala 1943 births Living people KooKoo players Ice hockey people from Pirkanmaa Competitors at the 1970 Winter Universiade FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Finland Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub