Pekka Tapani Marjamäki (18 December 1947 – 10 May 2012) was an

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

Tappara Tappara (; Finnish for "Battle axe") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team playing in the Liiga. They play at ''Tampere Deck Arena'' in Tampere, Finland. The team has won 18 Finnish league championships (1959, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, ...

. Marjamäki also played for HV 71 during the 1979–80 season. 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 1990 and in the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1998. Marjamäki had a heart attack when returning home from the supermarket on 7 May 2012. He was hospitalised and died in the intensive care unit of the hospital of Tampere during the early hours of 10 May.

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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marjamaki, Pekka 1947 births 2012 deaths Finnish ice hockey defencemen HV71 players Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players with retired numbers IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Olympic ice hockey players of Finland Ice hockey people from Tampere Tappara players