Niko Ojamäki (born 17 June 1995) is a

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professional

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player for

EHC Kloten EHC Kloten is an ice hockey team based in the city of Kloten in Switzerland. The team plays in the National League (NL). It has one of the best youth systems in Swiss ice hockey as its youth teams have won 19 championships during the last 50 year ...

of the

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Playing career

Ojamäki made his Liiga debut playing with

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during the

2013–14 Liiga season The 2013–14 Liiga season is the 39th season of the Liiga (formerly SM-liiga), the top level of ice hockey in Finland, since the league's formation in 1975. The title was won by Kärpät who defeated Tappara in the finals. This was the first sea ...

. After establishing himself in the Liiga through four seasons with Ässät, Ojamäki left following the 2016–17 season, to sign an initial two-year contract with Tappara on May 29, 2017. Ojamäki played the

2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

season with

Linköping HC Linköping Hockey Club, often known by its Acronym and initialism, initials LHC, or Colloquialism, colloquially among its fans as Cluben, is a Swedish ice hockey club from Linköping, founded in 1976. The home arena of the team is Saab Arena (fo ...

of the

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(SHL), collecting 5 goals and 16 points in 48 regular season games. Leaving Sweden as a free agent, Ojamäki moved to the KHL, agreeing to a one-year deal with Russian based, HC Vityaz, on 21 May 2021. On 23 June 2022, Ojamäki returned to the Liiga signing a one-year contract with former club, Tappara.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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* 1995 births Living people Porin Ässät (men's ice hockey) players Finnish ice hockey right wingers Linköping HC players Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Finland Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in ice hockey Tappara players HC Vityaz players Ice hockey people from Pori {{Finland-icehockey-winger-stub