Seppo Johannes Ahokainen (19 January 1952 – 6 March 2024) was 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 ...

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, ...

and

Tappara Tappara (; Finnish language, Finnish for "Battle axe") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team playing in the SM-liiga. They play at ''Nokia Arena (Tampere), Nokia Arena'' in Tampere, Finland. The team has won 20 Finnish league championships, wh ...

as well for the Finland national team. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. Ahokainen died on 6 March 2024, at the age of 72.

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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1952 births 2024 deaths Finnish ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics Ilves players EC KAC players Olympic ice hockey players for Finland People from Lauritsala SaiPa players Tappara players Ice hockey people from South Karelia {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub