Risto Uolevi Jalo (born July 18, 1962) is a Finnish retired professional

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player and current

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Ilves Ilves (; Finnish for "Lynx") is a Finnish professional ice hockey team based in Tampere. They play in the Liiga at the Tampere Deck Arena. The colors of Ilves, green, yellow, and black, were taken from what was then the coat of arms of the ci ...

in the Finnish

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. He played in the

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with KOOVEE,

, and HPK between 1979 and 1998. He also played 3 games in the

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with the

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during the 1985–86 season. Internationally Jalo played for the Finnish national team at several tournaments, including four

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and the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки иг� ...

. In 2004 he was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame. He served as general manager of Ilves from 1999 to 2004, and again since 2017.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame bio
1962 births Living people Edmonton Oilers players Finnish ice hockey centres HPK players Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players with retired numbers Ilves players KOOVEE players Olympic ice hockey players of Finland People from Humppila SHC Fassa players Sportspeople from Kanta-Häme Washington Capitals draft picks {{Finland-icehockey-centre-stub