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2020-21 Tappara Roster

Wingers

#9 Charles Bertrand (Paris, France)

#23 Olavi Vauhkonen (Helsinki, Finland)

#35 Kasper Simontaival (Tampere, Finland)

#67 Jiří Smejkal (České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

#71 Kristian Kuusela (Seinäjoki, Finland)

#76 Anton Levtchi (Varkaus, Finland)

#81 Jukka Peltola (Tampere, Finland)

#91 Petteri Puhakka (Pyhäjoki, Finland)

#93 Lassi Vanhatalo (Tampere, Finland)

#96 Sami Moilanen (Sipoo, Finland)

Centers

#11 Patrik Virta (Hämeenlinna, Finland)

#20 Michael Špaček (Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic)

#27 Kristian Tanus (Tampere, Finland)

#28 Jarkko Malinen (Kuopio, Finland)

#42 Otto Rauhala (Ylöjärvi, Finland)

Defensemen

#4 Teemu Suhonen (Kuopio, Finland)

#6 Michal Moravcik (Klatovy, Czech Republic)

#13 Valtteri Kemiläinen (Jyväskylä, Finland)

#15 Toni Utunen (Kokkola, Finland)

#24 Ben Blood (Plymouth, Minnesota)

#47 Eric Norin (Täby, Sweden)

#50 Jere Rouhiainen (Tampere, Finland)

#72 Santtu Kinnunen (Lahti, Finland)

Goalies

#30 Christian Heljanko (Porvoo, Finland)

#41 Dominik Hrachovina (Brno, Czech Republic)

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This week on Läpimurto: at this point they don’t offer anything useful but I’m still posting them?

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Semifinals top players - the eliminated teams

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This week on Läpimurto: just... nonsense.

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This week on Läpimurto: the Tampere kids!

It’s the first season for both Petteri Puhakka and Kasper Simontaival in men’s league although they both have been bounced between Liiga and Mestis throughout the season. How do they deal with that and what can they do in order to secure their spot on the team.

It’s known that in Tappara the rookies have harder time to make it to the lineup or the top lines when the rest of the team is so top notch. (Playwise we ain’t talking about the shit they do off it.) TV-analyst Lehkonen thinks they (or merely Simontaival) should aim to improve their game when they don’t have the puck and do it both offensively and defensively because that would help the most.

Later in the episode, Aatu Räty participates in the Red Bull challenge of shooting accuracy, puck handling, bowling, and mystery card where player need to score goals using the mystery items they draw. And Roni Hirvonen answers fan questions.

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On this week’s Red Bull Läpimurto

Get to know the players a little better! What kind of players they are in their own and other people’s mind?

/ no translations, but do send me msg if you want to know something specific

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Red Bull Läpimurto is back for its third season y’all!

The series concentrates on showcasing the league’s under 20-year-old talents. The first episode gives a sneak peak of what is to come.

Players we will be seeing on this season of Läpimurto (depending can they secure their spots on the Liiga team):

JYP: Patrik Puistola, Joni Jurmo, Brad Lambert

TPS: Juuso Pärssinen, Eemil Viro, Ruben Rafkin

Pelicans: Topias Vilen, Matias Rajaniemi

Tappara: Kasper Simontaival, Petteri Puhakka, Kari Piiroinen

Lukko: Mikko Petman

Kärpät: Topi Niemelä, Kasper Puutio, Aku Räty, Aatu Räty

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This week on Läpimurto: Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Roni Hirvonen... and January’s best U20 players in Liiga.

Espoo native Roni Hirvonen found his way to Porin Ässät after Espoon Blues ceased to exist in the Liiga scene several years ago due bankruptcy. But why Pori? He says the physical training and the rebuilt of the team were perfect for him and perfect chance for him to make it in Liiga and be a pro player. As he plays his second season in Ässät, he wishes to make more of an impact and be a top player in the team.

While Ässät’s season isn’t going that splendidly and the whole league is under some confusing times with having to play without crowds and occasionally rescheduling games, Hirvonen has still had some joyous times. Most notably winning bronze with Team Finland at the U20 world championships and him getting drafted to Toronto Maple Leafs in November, in the middle of a game.

Hirvonen tells that pretty much all of the 31 teams had been in contact with him which is why he had no expectations on who might draft him. But he has one clear vision of where he wants to be in 5 years: playing in the NHL.

Later in the episode, Tappara’s Petteri Puhakka participates in the Red Bull challenge of shooting accuracy, puck handling, bowling, and mystery card where player need to score goals using the mystery items they draw.

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New Läpimurto out now!

On this week’s episode, the players speak about the pressure that’s on them as young players. Rookies usually tend to compete against each other and the rest of the roster on their spot in the lineup. The players are used to playing big minutes in the juniors but making it in the men’s team takes a lot more effort in the end.

With how last season went, Pelicans sold most of their players to other teams and gave the youngsters a chance to play Liiga. The team’s new coach Tommi Niemelä has a history of coaching young players in the national U18 team, and sees it’s the coaching staff’s job to help and assist the young players about their dreams in hockey, but nothing ever comes for free.

The players also themselves sees it’s important and great there is competition within the team itself, because it requires them to show off their best skills every chance that they got.

Pelicans players also take part in Red Bull challenge of shooting accurary, puck handling, bowling, and mystery card where players need to score goals using the mystery items they draw.

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U20 TEAM FINLAND ROSTER

GOALTENDERS

#1 - Kari Piiroinen, 19, HELSINKI Team: TUTO Hockey/Tappara, undrafted Mestis svs%: .924

#30 - Joel Blomqvist, 18, Pietarsaari Team: Hermes/Kärpät, drafted by Pittsburgh Penguins in 2020 Mestis svs%: .908 Liiga svs%: .914 (2 games in total)

#31 - Roope Taponen, 19, Espoo Team: Kiekko-Espoo/HIFK, undrafted Mestis svs%: .928

DEFENSEMEN

#2 - Santeri Hatakka (A), 19, Riihimäki Team: Ilves, drafted by San Jose Sharks in 2019 Liiga stats: 19 G, 1+2, 26 PIM, +3

#4 - Ville Heinola, 19, Honkajoki Team: Lukko, drafted by Winnipeg Jets in 2019 Liiga stats: 19 G, 1+13, 4 PIM, +10

#35 - Mikko Kokkonen (A), 19, Mikkeli Team: Jukurit, drafted by Toronto Maple Leafs in 2019 Liiga stats: 18 G, 0+3,12 PIM, -9

#6 - Eemil Viro, 18, Vantaa Team: TPS, drafted by Detroit Red Wings in 2020 Liiga stats: 16 G, 1+5, 8 PIM, +5

#10 - Kasper Puutio, 18, Vaasa Team: Kärpät, drafted by Florida Panthers in 2020 Liiga stats: 8 G, 1+0, 0 PIM, -2 

 #7 - Topi Niemelä, 18, Oulu Team: Kärpät, drafted by Toronto Maple Leafs in 2020 Liiga stats: 9 G, 0+3, 0 PIM, +3

#3 - Ruben Rafkin, 18, Turku Team: TPS, undrafted Liiga stats: 10 G, 1+2, 4 PIM, +3

#12 - Matias Rajaniemi, 18, Lahti Team: Pelicans, drafted by New York Islanders in 2020 Liiga stats: 18 G, 0+2, 8 PIM, +2

FORWARDS

#13 - Roby Järventie, 18, Tampere Team: Ilves, drafted by Ottawa Senators in 2020 Liiga stats: 19 G, 7+7, 6 PIM, +9

#15 - Anton Lundell ( C), 19, Espoo Team: HIFK, drafted by Florida Panthers in 2020 Liiga stats: 17 G, 12+8, 6 PIM, +7

#29 - Kasper Simontaival, 18, Orivesi Team: TUTO Hockey/Tappara, drafted by Los Angeles Kings in 2020 Liiga stats: 7 G, 0+1, 4 PIM, +/- 0

#22 - Roni Hirvonen, 18, Espoo Team: Ässät, drafted by Toronto Maple Leafs in 2020 Liiga stats: 21 G, 5+4, 28 PIM, -8 

 #27 - Juuso Pärssinen, 19, Hämeenlinna Team: TPS, drafted by Nashville Predators in 2019 Liiga stats: 18 G, 2+10, 18 PIM, -6

#33 - Brad Lambert, 17, Lahti Team: JYP, draft year 2022 Liiga stats: 18 G, 4+3, 8 PIM, -4

#21 - Mikael Pyyhtiä, 19, Turku Team: TPS U20, drafted by Columbus Blue Jackets in 2020 U20 SM-Liiga stats: 16 G, 9+10, 4 PIM, +12

#28 - Henri Nikkanen, 19, Mikkeli Team: Jukurit, drafted by Winnipeg Jets in 2019 Liiga stats: 15 G, 2+5, 6 PIM, -10

#34 - Aku Räty, 19, Oulu Team: Kärpät, drafted by Arizona Coyotes in 2019 Liiga stats: 4 G, 0+0, 0 PIM, -1

#19 - Petteri Puhakka, 19, Pyhäjoki Team: TUTO Hockey/Tappara, undrafted Mestis stats: 7 G, 4+4, 2 PIM, +4

#20 - Samuel Helenius, 18, Järvenpää Team: JYP, draft year 2021 Liiga stats: 18 G, 5+3, 41 PIM, -2

#23 - Mikko Petman, 19, Lappeenranta Team: Lukko, undrafted Liiga stats: 19 G, 2+2, 4 PIM, +2

#36 - Benjamin Korhonen, 19, Ylivieska Team: KalPa, undrafted Liiga stats: 9 G, 0+2, 2 PIM, +2

#32 - Matias Mäntykivi, 19, Lappeenranta Team: SaiPa, drafted by Boston Bruins in 2019 Liiga stats: 17 G, 0+4, 4 PIM, -5 

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CHANGES IN TEAM ROSTER

RETIRED

Kärpät: Jussi Jokinen

CONTRACT EXTENSION

Lukko: Kristian Pospisil

Tappara: Kari Piiroinen, Christian Heljanko, Anton Levtchi, Kristian Tanus, Jere Henriksson, Petteri Puhakka + U20 team players

PLAYERS JOINING

Ilves: Albin Grewe (<- Djugårdens)

KooKoo: Ville Meskanen (<- Ilves), Kim Strömberg (<-  IK Oskarshamn), Riku Tuomola (<- FPS)

Pelicans: Niklas Nordgren, Aleksi Laakso (<- both HIFK), Toni Utunen (<- Tappara)

SaiPa: Dominik Lakatos (<- Vitkovice), Oliver Okuliar (<- HK Dukla Trencin), Tino Metsävainio, Joona Huttula (<- both Kärpät), Zdenek Sedlak (<- Kärpät/Hermes), Niklas Peltomäki (<- Ilves), Nuutti Viitasalo (<- Jokerit), Ville Heikkinen (<- Visby/Roma), Okko Kangasniemi (<- TuTo), Mikko Juusola (<- IPK), Valtteri Lipiäinen (<- JoKP)

Sport: Valtteri Hietanen (<-  Nikko Icebucks), Emil Johansson (<- HV71 *)

Tappara: Veli-Matti Vittasmäki (<- Severstal), Tyler Morley (<- Linköping), Waltteri Merelä, Casimir Jürgens (<- both Pelicans), Kyle Platzer, Joni Tuulola (<- both KooKoo), Mikael Seppälä (<- KalPa)

* For those who don’t know, HV71 was recently relegated from SHL to Allsvenskan and a lot of the players were released or are looking for new teams instead of playing in lower league, so we might see more HV71 players in Liiga.

PLAYERS LEAVING

HIFK: Frans Tuohimaa (-> Neftehimik)

HPK: Eemeli Räsänen (-> Frederikshavn)

KalPa: Pekka Suhonen (-> IPK)

Kärpät: Cody Kunyk (-> Barys Nur-Sultan)

Lukko: Lukas Klok (-> Neftehimik)

SaiPa: Severi Auvinen (-> Ketterä)

Sport: Eemeli Ylitalo (-> SapKo)

TPS: Henrik Larsson (-> BIK Karlskoga)

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Finland’s U20 World Juniors team finalized

GOALTENDERS

Piiroinen Kari, Tappara/TUTO Hockey Blomqvist Joel, Kärpät/Hermes Taponen Roope, HIFK/K-Espoo

DEFENSEMEN

Hatakka Santeri, Ilves Rafkin Ruben, TPS Heinola Ville, Lukko Viro Eemil, TPS Niemelä Topi, Kärpät Puutio Kasper, Kärpät Rajaniemi Matias, Pelicans Kokkonen Mikko, Jukurit

FORWARDS

Järventie Roby, Ilves Lundell Anton, HIFK Puhakka Petteri, Tappara/TUTO Hockey Helenius Samuel, JYP Pyyhtiä Mikael, TPS Hirvonen Roni, Ässät Petman Mikko, Lukko Pärssinen Juuso, TPS Nikkanen Henri, Jukurit Simontaival Kasper, Tappara/TUTO Hockey Mäntykivi Matias, SaiPa Lambert Brad, JYP Räty Aku, Kärpät Korhonen Benjamin, KalPa

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U20 national team roster

The U20 national team will be playing three practice games against Sweden, starting November 2nd to 8th, in preparation for the upcoming U20 World Championships in Edmonton.

GOALTENDERS

Blomqvist Joel (Kärpät / Hermes)

Piiroinen Kari (Tappara / TUTO Hockey)

Taponen Roope (Kiekko-Espoo)

DEFENSEMEN

Hatakka Santeri (Ilves)

Heinola Ville (Lukko)

Kokkonen Mikko (Jukurit)

Luoto Mico (K-Vantaa)

Niemelä Topi (Kärpät)

Pulli Valtteri (TPS)

Puutio Kasper (Kärpät)

Rafkin Ruben (TPS)

Rajaniemi Matias (Pelicans)

Viro Eemil (TPS)

FORWARDS

Helenius Samuel (JYP)

Hirvonen Roni (Ässät)

Järventie Roby (Ilves)

Korhonen Benjamin (KalPa)

Lambert Brad (JYP)

Lundell Anton (HIFK)

Mäntykivi Matias (SaiPa)

Nikkanen Henri (Jukurit)

Petman Mikko (Lukko)

Puhakka Petteri (Tappara)

Pyyhtiä Mikael (TPS)

Pärssinen Juuso (TPS)

Räty Aku (Kärpät)

Saarela Antti (Ilves)

Simontaival Kasper (Tappara / TUTO Hockey)

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QUICK CHECK-UP: TAPPARA

2019-20 SEASON: 3RD PLACE

To start the season, Tampereen Tappara went onto winning 10 games straight and from there on out, it was all a steady ride until the end of the season. They did suffer from some injuries within their top players, but to be fair, with how the team is built you’d have never noticed. In my opinion, the only thing they did wrong during the season was basically acquire bunch of no-name ECHL players to cover those injuries when they could have been bringing their young talent in. 

2020-21 SEASON

Tappara seems to follow in Chicago Blackhawks’ footsteps by bringing in bunch of former players back into the team. There’s Blake Parlett, there’s captain Jukka Peltola, and there’s... Dominik Hrachovina? Yeah, that latter would be an exciting one, if it wasn’t for the social media controversy he just caused by posting of coronavirus conspiracy theories and supporting extreme right wing politicians. Not trying to coax you guys into hating him, but I would say if you do stan him, please remember he is a bit of a character.

ROSTER MOVES

CONTRACT EXTENSIONS

Valtteri Kemiläinen (temporary extension)

PLAYERS JOINING

Santtu Kinnunen (<- Pelicans)

Jukka Peltola (<- Sibir, KHL)

Michael Spacek (<- Manitoba Moose, AHL)

Eric Norin (<- Brynäs, SHL)

Jiri Smejkal (<- Sparta Prague, Extraliga)

Michal Moravcik (<- Litvinov, Extraliga)

Blake Parlett (<- München, DEL)

Kari Piiroinen (<- Windsor Spitfires, OHL)

Jimi Pärssinen (<- TPS U20, JR SM-Liiga)

Petteri Puhakka (<- Kärpät U20, JR SM-Liiga)

Jere Henriksson (<- Jokerit U20, JR SM-Liiga)

Niko Huuhtanen (<- Kiekko-Espoo U20, JR SM-Liiga)

PLAYERS LEAVING

Alexander Ytterel (-> KooKoo)

Juhani Jasu (-> TPS)

Jere Karjalainen (-> HC Sochi, KHL)

Veli-Matti Vittasmäki (-> Severstal, KHL)

Niko Ojamäki (-> Linköping, SHL)

Tyler Morley (-> Skellefteå, SHL)

Adam Polasek (-> Vitkovice, Extraliga)

Michael Garteig (->  ERC Ingolstadt, DEL)

Jonathan Racine (-> Innsbruck, IceHL/EBEL)

Steven Iacobellis (-> ?)

RETIRED

Tuukka Mäntylä

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This week on Läpimurto: playoffs are coming.

What the playoffs mean to a player and the team? What’s the best part of them? What’s the biggest thing to pay attention to in playoffs? Of course these guys have yet to experience Liiga playoffs, because of post-season cancellation in 2019 and this being the first season in men’s league for most of them so what kind of experiences the guys have from the U20-league?

Later on in the episode, TPS rookies take a TPS quiz.