Jouni Rinne (born 12 March 1956) is a retired 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 ...
player who played in the
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 ...
. He played for
Lukko,
HPK
Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (HPK) is a professional ice hockey team in the Liiga, the top men's ice hockey league in Finland. Their home ice is the Ritari-areena in Hämeenlinna. HPK was established in 1929. The parent club of the team is HPK Edu ...
,
KalPa,
KooKoo, and YJK. He was inducted into the
Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame
The Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame is housed in and administered by the ('Finnish Ice Hockey Museum'), a part of the Vapriikki Museum Centre, in Tampere, Finland. The was founded in 1979 with the mission to record, document, and exhibit objects, ...
in 2005.
Rinne is the only Finnish player ever to be drafted by
California Seals.
External links
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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
Finnish ice hockey forwards
HPK players
Lukko players
KooKoo players
California Golden Seals draft picks
Phoenix Roadrunners draft picks
1956 births
Living people
Ice hockey players with retired numbers
People from Rauma, Finland
Sportspeople from Satakunta
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