Seppo Liitsola (7 February 1933 – 18 July 2012) was a 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 h ...

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 ...

. "Seppo Liitsola profile". Eurohockey.com. July 2013, webpage: urohockey.com/player/9113-seppo-liitsola.html eurohock-113 He played ice hockey 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, ...

and TBK. 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 1986. Liitsola coached the national team of Finland from 1969 to 1976. Liitsola died on 18 July 2012, at the age of 79, in Tampere, Finland.

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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1933 births 2012 deaths Finnish ice hockey forwards Tappara players Finland men's national ice hockey team coaches Ice hockey people from Tampere {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub