Andreas Bernard (born 9 June 1990) is an Italian professional

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 hock ...

goaltender In ice hockey, the goaltender (commonly referred to as the goalie) is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goaltender mostly plays in or near t ...

who currently plays for HC Bozen-Bolzano of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He holds the record for most games played as a foreign goaltender in

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 ...

, the highest level league in Finland, with 216 regular season games played. Bernard speaks fluent Finnish.

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* 1990 births Porin Ässät (men's ice hockey) players Bolzano HC players Germanophone Italian people Italian expatriate sportspeople in Finland Italian ice hockey goaltenders KooKoo players Living people Mikkelin Jukurit players Peliitat Heinola players SaiPa players People from Neumarkt, South Tyrol Sportspeople from South Tyrol EC VSV players {{Italy-icehockey-bio-stub