Jari Sailio (born 18 March 1986 in

Hyvinkää Hyvinkää (; sv, Hyvinge, ) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region, approximately north of the capital Helsinki. The city was chartered in 1960. The population of Hyvinkää is (). Its neighboring municipal ...

) is a

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professional

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forward currently playing 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, ...

in the Finnish

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 lea ...

. Sailio joined the Blues after a season with

Arystan Temirtau Arystan Hockey Club ( kk, «Арыстан» хоккей клубы, ''Arystan hokkeı klýby''), commonly referred to as Arystan Temirtau, was a professional ice hockey team based in Temirtau, Kazakhstan. They were founded in 2010, and played in ...

in the

Kazakhstan Hockey Championship The Pro Hokei Ligasy formerly known as ''Republic of Kazakhstan Open Ice Hockey Championship'' ''( kk, Шайбалық хоккей бойынша Қазақстан Республикасының ашық чемпионаты, russian: Откры ...

He agreed to an initial three-month try-out contract with the Blues, before signing a one-year deal on 30 August 2014. He previously played for Blues of the Liiga in the

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season.

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* 1986 births Living people Arystan Temirtau players Espoo Blues players HIFK (ice hockey) players HPK players Oulun Kärpät players Ritten Sport players Finnish ice hockey forwards People from Hyvinkää Ice hockey people from Uusimaa {{Finland-icehockey-winger-stub