Atte Petteri Ohtamaa (born 6 November 1987) is a Finnish professional

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for

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 ...

of the

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Playing career

Ohtamaa's youth team was Nivala Cowboys before he transferred to Oulun Kärpät at the Junior B level. On 27 August 2019, Ohtamaa joined

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of the

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(NL) on a two-month contract until 3 November 2019. He was brought in as their fifth import player in case of injuries. Ohtamaa played 17 games with Lugano (3 points) before being released on 2 November 2019. He was then loaned to Kazakh-based KHL club,

Barys Nur-Sultan Hockey Club Barys ( kk, Барыс хоккей клубы , translit=Barys Hokkei Kluby), also referred to as Barys Astana or HC Barys, is a Professional ice hockey, professional ice hockey team based in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is one of the foundi ...

, for the remainder of the season. As a free agent on 1 May 2020, Ohtamaa opted to continue in the KHL, securing a one-year contract with Russian club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.

International play

Ohtamaa was named to the

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for competition at the

2014 IIHF World Championship The 2014 IIHF World Championship was hosted by Belarus in its capital, Minsk, held from 9–25 May 2014. Sixteen national teams were competing in two venues, the Minsk-Arena and Chizhovka-Arena. It was the first time Belarus hosted the tourname ...

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

* Won the Finnish Champion (

Kanada-malja The Kanada-malja is an ice hockey club championship trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the Finnish Liiga playoffs. Kanada-malja is Finnish for "Canada Bowl"; the trophy is so named because it was donated by Canada's Finnish community in 195 ...

) 2x: 2007–08, 2013–14. *

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 ...

, Runner-up 3x: 2008–09, 2015–16, 2018–19 *

KHL The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs b ...

, (

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) 1x: 2017–18

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* 1987 births Living people Finnish ice hockey defencemen Ak Bars Kazan players Barys Nur-Sultan players Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Kazakhstan Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Finnish expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland Jokerit players Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players HC Lugano players Oulun Kärpät players People from Nivala Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players of Finland Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in ice hockey Sportspeople from North Ostrobothnia 21st-century Finnish people {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub