Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (HPK) is a professional ice hockey team in the Liiga, the top men's ice hockey league in Finland. Their

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is the Ritari-areena in Hämeenlinna. HPK was established in

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

. The parent club of the team is HPK Edustusjääkiekko ry and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights," with a logo representing a knight's helmet. HPK won their first SM-liiga championship in 2006 and the second in 2019.

Honours

Champions

* SM-liiga

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 ...

''(2)'':

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

Runners-up

* SM-liiga ''(3)'':

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

* SM-liiga ''(9)'':

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

''Other awards for the club:'' * I-Divisioona (it was the second level of ice hockey in Finland) ''(5)'':

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

Players

2019-2020

Goalkeepers

*1 Tuomas Aalto *35

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Joona Voutilainen Joona Voutilainen (born November 17, 1996) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for IF Björklöven in the HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv). References External links * 1996 births Living people IF Björklöven ...

Defenders

*6 Niklas Friman (C) *10 Atso Lehtinen *25

Roope Laavainen Roope Laavainen (born 23 August 1998) is a Finnish professional ice hockey Defenseman (ice hockey), defenceman who is currently playing for HPK of the Finnish Liiga. He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the fourth round, 119th overall, o ...

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Miro Karjalainen Miro Karjalainen (born May 23, 1996) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player, currently playing for HIFK of the Liiga. Playing career Miro Karjalainen began his career in 2011–12 season playing for Espoo Blues in the C-junior SM-Liiga (U-16 ...

*42 Arto Laatikainen (A) *43

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Paavo Tyni Paavo is an Estonian language, Estonian and Finnish language, Finnish masculine given name, cognate to "Paul (given name), Paul". The Finnish patronymic surname Paavolainen is derived from it. It may refer to: *Paavo Aaltonen (1919–1962), Fin ...

*53 Nico Nurmikanta *63

Elmeri Eronen Elmeri Eronen (born 27 January 1995) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with Timrå IK in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Eronen made his Liiga debut playing with HC TPS during the 2013–14 Liiga seas ...

*74 Petteri Nikkilä (A)

Forwards

*14 Mikko Lahtela *15 Santtu Hakanen *16

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Cody Kunyk Cody Kunyk (born May 20, 1990) is a Canadian ice hockey forward currently under contract to Oulun Kärpät of the Liiga. He has formerly played with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. (NHL) Playing career Kunyk played ...

*21 Jere Innala *26

Tommi Tikka Tommi Tikka (born August 28, 1995) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for Ilves of the Finnish Liiga. Tikka made his Liiga debut playing with Vaasan Sport during the 2015-16 Liiga season. References Ext ...

*27 Filip Krivosik *28 Markus Nenonen (A) *29

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*34 Erkka Seppälä *40

Janne Tavi Janne Tavi (born September 13, 1989) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * ...

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Henri Kanninen Henri Kanninen (born October 17, 1994) is a Finnish ice hockey player who plays as a centre for JYP Jyväskylä. References External links * 1994 births 21st-century Finnish people Living people Finnish ice hockey centres HPK players ...

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Valtteri Puustinen Valtteri Puustinen (born 4 June 1999) is a Finnish professional ice hockey winger for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) as a prospect under contract to the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey L ...

*49 Kasperi Heinänen *51 Philippe Cornet *71

Niclas Lucenius Niclas Lucenius (born May 3, 1989) is a Finnish professional ice hockey center. He is currently playing with Vaasan Sport of the Finnish Liiga. Lucenius was selected by the Atlanta Thrashers in the 4th round (115th overall) of the 2007 NHL E ...

*81 Joona Monto *86

Kristjan Kombe Kristjan Kombe (born 28 March 2000) is an Estonian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for Kiekko-Vantaa in the Mestis on loan from Jokerit of the Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Конт� ...

Honored members

Eero Salisma Eero Johannes Salisma (16 December 1916 in Hämeenlinna, Finland – 19 July 1998) was a professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Hämeenlinnan Tarmo and HPK. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1 ...

*9 Jyrki Louhi *13 Marko Palo *17

Juha Hietanen Juha Hietanen (born April 20, 1955) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward. Hietanen played most of his career with HPK, playing from 1973 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1987. Having played mostly in the 1. Divisioona, the team were promot ...

*18 Hannu Savolainen *36

Marko Tuulola Marko Tuulola (born 7 February 1971) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. Career Tuulola played in the SM-liiga for HPK, Lukko and Jokerit. He also played in the Swedish Elitserien for Brynäs IF and in the Swiss Nationalliga ...

NHL alumni

* Eric Fehr * Riku Hahl * Jukka Hentunen * Josh Holden *

Niko Kapanen Niko Klaus Petteri Kapanen (born 29 April 1978) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey centre, who last played for HPK of the Finnish Liiga. Playing career Kapanen was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the 6th round as the 173rd overall pick ...

* Rostislav Klesla *

Janne Laukkanen Janne Laukkanen (born March 19, 1970) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise, the Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Tampa Bay ...

* Ville Leino *

Antti Miettinen Antti Markus Miettinen (born July 3, 1980) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and former professional forward, who last played professionally with HPK of the Liiga. He had previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Dallas Sta ...

Pasi Nurminen Pasi Johan Olavi Nurminen (born December 17, 1975) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey goaltender. He was drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers as their sixth-round pick, #189 overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. Nurminen started his playi ...

* Timo Pärssinen *

Antti Pihlström Antti Sakari Pihlström (born 22 October 1984) is a Finnish professional ice hockey left winger who is currently playing with HPK of the Finnish Liiga. Playing career Pihlström played in Finland's SM-liiga for the Espoo Blues, HPK, and SaiPa. ...

Brian Rafalski Brian Christopher Rafalski (born September 28, 1973) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, in the SM-liiga for HPK and HIFK, ...

* Karri Rämö * Geoff Sanderson * Roman Šimíček *

Ville Sirén Ville Jussi Sirén (born February 11, 1964 in Tampere, Finland) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey defender. He is currently the head amateur scout for the Columbus Blue Jackets. He has previously worked as a scout for the St. Louis ...

* Juuse Saros * Petr Tenkrát * Hannu Toivonen * Jarkko Varvio * Tomáš Vlasák * Kristian Vesalainen

References

External links

Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho official web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hpk Liiga teams Sport in Hämeenlinna Sports clubs in Finland 1929 establishments in Finland Liiga Ice hockey clubs established in 1929