Kalle Havulinna (September 27, 1924 – July 9, 2016)
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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 top professional league in Finland, 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 10 seasons with the Tampere
Ilves. 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 1985. Besides ice hockey he worked as an electrical engineer. His company was responsible for the electrics of Finland's first ice rink in
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
, built for the 1965 Ice Hockey World Championships.
References
External links
Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1924 births
2016 deaths
Finnish ice hockey players
Ilves players
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