Jarno Koskiranta (born December 9, 1986) is a Finnish professional

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. He is currently playing with

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of the

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 ...

Playing career

Koskiranta made his Finnish

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 ...

debut playing with SaiPa during the

2009–10 SM-liiga season The 2009–10 SM-liiga season was the 35th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. TPS won the Kanada-malja and Ilari Filppula from TPS won the Jari Kurri trophy. In the regular season ...

. After two seasons with

HC Sibir Novosibirsk Hockey Club Sibir Novosibirsk Oblast (russian: ХК Сибирь, en, Siberia HC), also known as HC Sibir or Sibir Novosibirsk, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Novosibirsk. They are members of the Chernyshev Division in the Ko ...

on May 1, 2015, Koskiranta left to sign with newly crowned KHL champions

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. Koskiranta remained with SKA over the following five seasons, before returning to original Finnish club, SaiPa, on a three-year contract on 20 May 2020.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

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* 1986 births Jokipojat players Living people People from Paimio SaiPa players HC Sibir Novosibirsk players SKA Saint Petersburg players Tappara players Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players of Finland Finnish ice hockey forwards Sportspeople from Southwest Finland {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub