FPS (full name: Forssan Palloseura) is a
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
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 ...
team based in
Forssa Ice Hall (capacity 3000),
Forssa
Forssa is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located almost in the centre of a triangle defined by the three largest major cities in Finland (Helsinki, Turku and Tampere), in the Tavastia Proper region, and which is crossed by Highway 2 ...
, established in
1931
Events
January
* January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
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* January 22 – Sir I ...
. Forssan Palloseura has two lower level teams: FoPS which plays in lower divisions and FoPS Flames which plays in the
2. Divisioona league.
FoPS Flames gained some negative news after former
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 ...
and Forssan Palloseura
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 ...
Timo Willman assaulted an opposing player during a
3rd Division game in 2007.
Most famous FPS figures are former NHL-coach
Alpo Suhonen
Alpo Suhonen (born 17 June 1948) is a Finnish former ice hockey coach.
He and Ivan Hlinka of the Pittsburgh Penguins were the first European-born NHL head coaches in 52 years.
Coaching career
Suhonen worked for the Finnish ice hockey federati ...
and player
Mika Helkearo who are nicknamed the "
Divarin Gretzky" (Gretzky of the
1st Division) from his virtually unbreakable
Mestis
Mestis (from fi, Mestaruussarja, meaning 'Championship series') is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division'). ...
records in games, assists and points.
Former Liiga teams
Forssa
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