Seppo Johannes Ahokainen (born January 19, 1952) is a Finnish retired professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) 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. In ice hockey, two o ...

player. who played in the

SM-liiga The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagu ...

for

Ilves Ilves (; Finnish for "Lynx") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Tampere. They play in the Liiga at the Tampere Deck Arena. The colors of Ilves, green, yellow, and black, were taken from what was then the coat of arms of the ci ...

and

Tappara Tappara (; Finnish for "Battle axe") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team playing in the Liiga. They play at '' Tampere Deck Arena'' in Tampere, Finland. The team has won 18 Finnish league championships (1959, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979 ...

as well for the

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. He was inducted into the

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in 1993.

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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1952 births Living people Finnish ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics Ilves players EC KAC players Olympic ice hockey players of Finland People from Lauritsala SaiPa players Tappara players Sportspeople from South Karelia {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub