Joensunn Kiekko-Pojat 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 ...

semi-professional

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 that plays in the

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' ...

. The full name of the club is ''Joensuun Kiekko ry''. It has spent three seasons in the top flight of Finnish hockey, season 1971–72 in SM-sarja and seasons 1989-90 and 1991–92 in

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 ...

Honours

Champions

''(1)'': 2009-10 * Suomi-sarja ''(2)'': 2003–04, 2014–15 *

I-Divisioona I-Divisioona was the second tier of 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 hock ...

''(3)'': 1988–89, 1990–91, 1992–93 * Maakuntasarja (II-Divisioona) ''(2)'': 1959, 1977

Runners-up

''(2)'': 2008-09, 2011-12 * Mestis ''(1)'': 2015-16 * Suomi-sarja ''(1)'': 2003

Current team

Updated February 20, 2017

Team officials

Updated February 20, 2017 Puruskainen Sami Jokipojat 2010 1

Retired numbers

*# 1 Tapio Pohtinen *# 9

Hannu Kapanen Hannu Mauri Antero Kapanen (born March 13, 1951, in Kontiolahti, Finland) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. He played for Jokerit and HIFK. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 2005. Ha ...

*# 15

Lauri Mononen Lauri Ilmari Mononen (22 March 1950 – 5 August 2018) was a Finnish professional ice hockey winger. While playing for Phoenix Roadrunners in the World Hockey Association he was one of the first Finns to play professional hockey in North Americ ...

*# 25 Markku Kyllönen

Former players

Luke Sellars Luke Sellars (born May 21, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Biography Sellars was born in Toronto. As a youth, he played in the 1995 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Wexfor ...

Pavel Brendl Pavel Brendl (born March 23, 1981) is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who last played for the HKM Zvolen in the Slovak Extraliga. He played in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Hurricanes and Pho ...

Alexander Salák Alexander Salák (born January 5, 1987) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He played two games in the National ...

* Antonin Stavjana * Rostislav Vlach *

Tero Arkiomaa Tero Arkiomaa (born February 20, 1968, in Helsinki, Finland) is a retired Finnish ice hockey player. Playing career Tero Arkiomaa started his career near his birthplace Helsinki and played his first games in Tikkurilan Jääveikot, TJV Vantaa ...

* Markku Kyllönen * Tomi Pöllänen * Joe Fontas * Roberts Jekimovs * Jocelyn Guimond

All time statistics leaders

Season by season record

Since rejoining the

in 2004–05

References

External links

www.jokipojat.fi
{{Liiga Mestis teams Joensuu Former Liiga teams