Tiina O. Paananen (born 5 July 1972) is a Finnish retired

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. She was a member of the Finnish women's national ice hockey teams that won bronze medals at the

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s in

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. Paananen played nine seasons in the Naisten SM-sarja with Kalevan Pallo Naiset (KalPa; 1993–1996), JyP HT Naiset and

JYP Jyväskylä Naiset JYP Naiset or JYP Jyväskylä Naiset is a Finnish ice hockey team in the Naisten Mestis. Their home is the Jyväskylän harjoitusjäähalli ('Jyväskylä training ice hall') in Jyväskylä, Central Finland. JYP Naiset have won the Aurora Bore ...

(1996–2000), and the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC; 2000–2002). She won the

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twice, first with JyP HT in 1997 and again in 1998, after the team was renamed JYP. Throughout her SM-sarja career, Paananen tallied 130

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in 176

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games, averaging a blistering 1.35

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across nearly a decade of play.

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* Living people 1972 births Ice hockey people from Jyväskylä Finnish women's ice hockey forwards Jyväskylän Hockey Cats players JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players JyP HT Naiset players KalPa Naiset players 20th-century Finnish women {{Finland-icehockey-player-stub