Kiekko-Vantaa is an

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

team from

Vantaa Vantaa (; , ) is a city in Finland. It is located to the north of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population of Vantaa is approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland. Vantaa is part of the Helsinki Metropoli ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

, playing in the

Mestis Mestis (from , meaning 'Championship series', stylized as MEST1S) is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division ...

league. It plays its home games in Trio Areena. Kiekko-Vantaa has been in Mestis since the league started in 2000 and have been in the finals twice, losing both times. The team was owned by South Korean businessman Chung Mong-won from 2012 to 2015.

Honours

Mestis

''(2)'': 2003, 2017 *

''(1)'': 2025

Players

Jere Elo Jere Elo (born March 7, 1992) is a Finland, Finnish professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Nes IK in the Norwegian First Division (ice hockey), Norwegian First Division (Nor.1). Elo made his Liiga debut playing with Espoo B ...

* Ilari Filppula *

Valtteri Filppula Valtteri Filppula (born 20 March 1984) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward (ice hockey), forward. Filppula won the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings in 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, 2008. He has previously played with the Red Wi ...

* Carlo Grünn * Juha Kaunismäki * Antti Niemi * Erkki Rajamäki *

Joonas Vihko Joonas Vihko (born April 6, 1981) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey winger. Vihko began his career with Kiekko-Vantaa before moving to his hometown team HIFK in 1998. Having played in U18 and U20 level he eventually made his way up ...

* Hannu Väisänen * Joonas Rönnberg * Juha Koivisto * Sami Heinonen

Retired numbers

* 7 Jukka Hakkarainen * 10

Petri Pitkäjärvi Petri Pitkäjärvi (born February 5, 1976) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey right winger. Pitkäjärvi played 36 games for Jokerit during the 1997–98 SM-liiga season, scoring no points. He then played in the I-Divisioona I-Divisioo ...

* 39 Antti Niemi

References

External links

Tervetuloa Kiekko-Vantaa Hockey Oy:n verkkosivuille

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