Risto Korhonen
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Risto Korhonen (born 27 November 1986) 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 ...
who played for HPK 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 ...
. He was selected in the fifth round, 159th overall, by the
Carolina Hurricanes The Carolina Hurricanes (colloquially known as the Canes) are a professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Hurricanes compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Con ...
in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.


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* 1986 births Living people Carolina Hurricanes draft picks Finnish ice hockey defencemen 21st-century Finnish sportsmen HPK players Lempäälän Kisa players Sportspeople from Sotkamo Ice hockey people from Kainuu {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub