Ari Vallin (born March 21, 1978) is a Finnish former 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 ...
defenceman
Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the la ...
.
In summer 2015, he was transferred from
Oulun Kärpät
Oulun Kärpät (Finnish for "Oulu Ermines", sometimes referred to as Kärpät Oulu) is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Oulu and playing in the top-tier Finnish Liiga. Kärpät have won the Finnish championship title eight times ...
to
KooKoo.
In the 2003–2004
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 ...
playoff finals in Finland against
TPS, Vallin was the player who scored the sudden death goal in overtime therefore making the
Kärpät team the new champions.
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1978 births
Living people
Espoo Blues players
Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Färjestad BK players
Finnish ice hockey defencemen
Frölunda HC players
HIFK (ice hockey) players
HPK players
Jokerit players
Kiekko-Vantaa players
Kokkolan Hermes players
KooKoo players
KOOVEE players
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players
Oulun Kärpät players
Rochester Americans players
HC Sparta Praha players
Tappara players
EHC Visp players
People from Ylöjärvi
Ice hockey people from Pirkanmaa