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Juuso Välimäki
Juuso Välimäki (born 6 October 1998) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman for the Utah Hockey Club of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Calgary Flames in the first round, 16th overall, in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Playing career Välimäki was selected 14th overall by the Tri-City Americans in the 2015 Canadian Hockey League's Import draft. He played three seasons with the Americans. He was selected by the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the first round, 16th overall, in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft before signing a three-year, entry-level contract with the Flames on 21 July 2017. As a draft prospect, Välimäki was ranked 11th of North American skaters by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau, and ranked the 14th skater by ISS Hockey. Välimäki made his NHL debut in the 2018–19 season on 3 October 2018, against the Vancouver Canucks. He scored his first NHL goal on 17 October, the third Flames goal in a 5–2 victory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 in an area of . Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, economic, and cultural hubs in the whole inland region. Tampere and its environs belong to the historical province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the Häme Province from 1831 to 1997, and over time it has often been considered to belong to Tavastia as a province. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'' published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making them the third-oldest active team in the NHL, and the oldest to be based in the United States. The Bruins are one of the Original Six NHL teams, along with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs. They have won six Stanley Cup championships, tied for fourth-most of any team with the Blackhawks (trailing the Canadiens, Maple Leafs, and Red Wings, with 24, 13, and 11, respectively), and tied for second-most for an NHL team based in the United States. The first facility to host the Bruins was the Boston Arena (now known as Matthews Arena), the world's oldest (built 1909–10) indoor ice hockey facility still in use for the sport at any level of competition. Following the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 IIHF World U18 Championships
The 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 17th IIHF World U18 Championship, and was hosted by Zug and Lucerne, Switzerland. The tournament began on 16 April 2015, with the gold medal game played on 26 April 2015. Top Division Officials The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2015 IIHF U18 World Championship. They were the following: Referees * Jimmy Bergamelli * Andreas Harnebring * Brett Iverson * Andreas Koch * Petri Lindqvist * Robert Mullner * Yuri Oskirko * Vladimír Pešina * Christopher Pitoscia * Marian Rohatsch * Ladislav Smetana * Per Gustav Solem Linesmen * Markku Buese * Franco Espinoza * Jiří Gebauer * Martin Korba * Ludvig Lundgren * Brian Oliver * Alexander Otmakhov * Nicolas Piche * Hannu Sormunen * Michael Tscherrig Preliminary round Group A ''All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)'' Group B ''All times are local. (Central European Summer Time – UTC+02:00)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 IIHF World U18 Championships
The 2016 IIHF U18 World Championship was the 18th IIHF World U18 Championship. It was played from April 14 to 24, 2016 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Venues Top Division Officials The IIHF selected 12 referees and 10 linesmen to work the 2016 IIHF U18 World Championship. They were the following: Referees * Vladimir Baluska * Jacob Grumsen * Roystian Hansen * Jan Hribik * Sirko Hunnius * Jeff Ingram * Marcus Linde * Jari-Pukka Pajula * Brett Sheva * Viktor Trilar * Cameron Voss * Shane Warschaw Linesmen * Andrew Dalton * Jake Davis * Dmitry Golyak * Johannes Kack * David Nothegger * Tibor Rovensky * Joonas Saha * Libor Suchanek * Alexander Sysuev * Nathan Vanoosten Preliminary round Group A ''All times are local. (Central Daylight Time – UTC−05:00)'' Group B ''All times are local. (Central Daylight Time – UTC−05:00)'' Relegation round Playoff round Quarterfinals Semifinals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IIHF World U18 Championship
The IIHF U18 World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-18 ice hockey teams from around the world. The tournament is usually played in April and is organized according to a system similar to the Ice Hockey World Championships and the IIHF World Junior Championship. History The United States leads the tournament with ten championships followed by Finland and Canada with four championships, and Russia with three and Sweden with two. Players who do not participate in the World Championship due to their respective league postseasons have the alternative of representing their country in the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in August. Results * Number of tournaments (or 2nd placed/3rd places) won at the time. Medal table Hosting countries See also * IIHF World Ranking * Ice Hockey World Championships * World Junior Ice Hockey Championships * World Junior A Challenge * World U-17 Hockey Challenge Notes External linksAll M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hockey sticks to control, advance and shoot a closed, vulcanized, rubber disc called a " puck" into the other team's goal. Each goal is worth one point. The team which scores the most goals is declared the winner. In a formal game, each team has six skaters on the ice at a time, barring any penalties, one of whom is the goaltender. Ice hockey is a full contact sport. Ice hockey is one of the sports featured in the Winter Olympics while its premiere international amateur competition, the IIHF World Championships, are governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for both men's and women's competitions. Ice hockey is also played as a professional sport. In North America as well as many European countries, the sport is known simply ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 NHL Season
The 2023–24 NHL season is the 107th season of operation (106th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season began on October 10, 2023, and will end on April 18, 2024. The Stanley Cup playoffs are then planned to begin shortly afterwards, ending with the Stanley Cup Finals in June. League business Entry draft The 2023 NHL Entry Draft was held on June 28–29, 2023, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Connor Bedard was selected first overall by the Chicago Blackhawks. Preseason games in Australia The NHL held games in Australia for the first time in league history. The Arizona Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings played on September 23 and 24 at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, best known as the main venue for the Australian Open. Since the arena was not designed for ice hockey, the league built a temporary rink akin to other NHL outdoor games, though the arena's retractable roof was closed for the game. Coaching changes (*) Indicates interim. Front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waivers (NHL)
Waivers is a National Hockey League (NHL) labor management procedure by which an NHL team makes a professional ice hockey player's contract and rights available to all other NHL teams. Other NHL teams "waive" any claim to a player designated for assignment in the American Hockey League (AHL) or designated for release. The process is typically referred to as "being placed on waivers." It is similar to the designated for assignment process in Major League Baseball. Minor league assignment procedure In the NHL, each player signs what is, or is a variation of, a standard NHL player's contract. The contract specifies that the team has exclusive rights to the player playing in the NHL. Once an NHL player has played in a certain number of games or a set number of seasons has passed since the signing of his first NHL contract (see here), that player must be offered to all of the other NHL teams before he can be assigned to a minor league affiliate. In the 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreeme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022–23 NHL Season
The 2022–23 NHL season is the 106th season of operation (105th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season began on October 7, 2022, when the San Jose Sharks and the Nashville Predators played the first of two games in Prague, Czech Republic as a part of the 2022 NHL Global Series. League business Sponsorships In addition to sponsor logos on helmets (''helmet entitlement partner''), teams will now be allowed to also sell another sponsor placement on their players' jerseys (''jersey patch partner'') this season. The jersey sponsor patches must be no greater than . The following teams have announced their jersey sponsors: *Arizona: Gila River Resort & Casino (home) *Boston: Rapid7 * Columbus: Safelite *Florida: AutoNation (away) *Minnesota: TRIA *Montreal: RBC (home) *Pittsburgh: Highmark (home) *St. Louis: Stifel *Toronto: Dairy Farmers of Ontario *Vancouver: TD Bank (home) *Vegas: Circa Las Vegas (home) * Washington: Caesars Sportsbook (ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020–21 Liiga Season
The 2020–21 Liiga season was the 46th season of the Liiga (formerly SM-liiga), the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all the games had to be played to a very limited audience or no audience at all. Two teams have temporarily let go of their coaches due to financial reasons: JYP and SaiPa. The season was Hakametsä's last full season. Teams Regular season Top six advanced straight to the quarter-finals, while teams between 7th and 10th positions played a wild card round for the final two spots. The Liiga is a closed series and thus there is no relegation. Due to several games having been cancelled due to COVID-19 cases in various teams in March 2021, not all teams got an even number of games, therefore Liiga decided that the rankings of the regular season will be determined by points per game average. Rules for classification: 1) Points per game; 2) 3-point wins 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 leagues of the Champions Hockey League and currently allocated five spots - the maximum number - based on success in previous editions. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, but the league and association have an agreement of cooperation. SM is a common abbreviation for ''Suomen mestaruus'', "Finnish championship". The SM-liiga formerly had a system of automatic promotion and relegation in place between itself and the Mestis, the second highest level of competition in Finland, but the automatic system was ended in 2000. The league was opened in 2005 and allowed KalPa to get a promotion. In 2009, a new system was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
