Marko Mikael "Adder" Palo (born 26 September 1967 in
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...
,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
) is a retired professional
ice hockey
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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
Ässät Ässät or Ässä may refer to:
* HC Ässät Pori Oy, Finnish sports club
** Porin Ässät (men's ice hockey)
** Porin Ässät (women's ice hockey)
** Porin Ässät (men's football)
** PATA (esports)
*, Finnish band from Oulu
*S Group, Finnish Con ...
,
Espoo Blues
The Espoo Blues were an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They played in Espoo, Finland, at the Espoo Metro Areena. The club went bankrupt at the end of the 2015–16 Liiga season.
History
The club was established in February 1984 as Kiekko-Espoo ...
, and
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 ...
, and won the 1995 Swedish championship with
HV 71
HV71 (), often referred to as just HV, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping, playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the first tier of Swedish ice hockey. The team played in the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League s ...
. 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. Palo is also known as adder, because of his striped ice
hockey socks
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.
During the
1994–1995 season he made up a fearsome duo together with
Esa Keskinen for HV71.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
Maroo Palo at Eliteprospects
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1967 births
Living people
Ässät players
Espoo Blues players
HPK players
Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players with retired numbers
Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
Olympic ice hockey players of Finland
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Sportspeople from Jyväskylä
20th-century Finnish people