• The 200102 SM-liiga season was the 27th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 13 teams participated in the league, and Jokerit...
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  • the Finnish Mestis. Kiilholma made his SM-liiga debut playing with Pori Ässät during the 200102 SM-liiga season. "Juha Kiilholma". Biographical information...
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    The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional...
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    the main roster. After a season in Mestis for Sport, he made his SM-liiga debut for Lukko during the 2001-02 SM-liiga season. He remained until 2004 where...
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    career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1995–96 after three seasons with TPS of the Finnish SM-liiga. Koivu served as the Canadiens' captain for ten of his...
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    2022–23 IIHF European Champions Cup (1): 2007 SM-liiga, Kanada-malja (1): 2005–06 SM-liiga (4): 200102, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07 World U-17 Hockey Challenge:...
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  • The 2000–01 SM-liiga season was the 26th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 13 teams participated in the league, and TPS...
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    SM-liiga for the first time in the 1984–1985 season, after ranking third in the season. However, KooKoo didn't make it. During the 1985–1986 season,...
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    KalPa (category Liiga teams)
    2016–17 seasons and a bronze in the 2008–09 season. KalPa has also won the Spengler Cup, in year 2018. SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1990–91, 2016-17 SM-liiga Kanada-malja:...
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    Ilves (category Liiga teams)
    needed] SM-sarja Kanada-malja: 1963, 1964, 1967, 1974, 1975[citation needed] SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1985 SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1990, 1998 SM-liiga Kanada-malja:...
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    the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild. After four seasons with TPS in the SM-liiga, Koivu joined the Wild in 2005. He spent fifteen seasons in...
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    HC TPS (redirect from TPS (SM-liiga))
    Palloseura is an ice hockey team and 10-time champion of SM-liiga and 1-time champion of SM-sarja. They play in Turku, Finland, at Gatorade Center. In...
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  • Spartak Moscow in the Soviet Union, and later for Tappara of the Finnish SM-liiga. His son, Aleksander Barkov Jr., was born in Finland and is the captain...
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    Lahti Pelicans (category Liiga teams)
    1975–76 and won promotion to SM-liiga after finishing second in the qualifying series. Kiekkoreipas spent nine seasons in SM-liiga. In 1978–79 they achieved...
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  • The 2002–03 SM-liiga season was the 28th season of the SM-liiga, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 13 teams participated in the league, and Tappara...
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  • list of Finnish Elite Ice Hockey League seasons since inception of the SM-liiga and also of its predecessor, the SM-sarja: 1927–28 | 1928–29 | 1929–30 (cancelled)...
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  • Kiekko-Espoo (category Liiga teams)
    men's team plays in the Liiga, where they were promoted for the 2024–25 season, and the women's team plays in the Naisten Liiga, where they are the winningest...
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    Marko Kiprusoff (category Cleveland Barons (2001–2006) players)
    Kiprusoff won two more SM-liiga championships with TPS, making him a four-time SM-liiga champion. Kiprusoff then played the 200102 with the New York Islanders...
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  • Naisten Liiga (lit. 'Women's League'), also called the Naisten SM-liiga (NSML) and Jääkiekon naisten SM-liiga (lit. 'Ice Hockey Women's Finnish Championship...
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    Rafalski spent four seasons in Europe - winning the Pekka Rautakallio trophy as best Liiga Defenseman in 1997, and 1999, the Finnish SM-liiga championship with...
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    and set a SM-liiga record for penalty minutes in a single season with 215 (since broken by Matt Nickerson). Ruutu had his best NHL season to date statistically...
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    Hannes Hyvönen (category Cleveland Barons (2001–2006) players)
    Entry Draft. After playing on a number of SM-liiga teams, Hyvönen departed to North America for the 200102 season, which he mostly spent with the Sharks'...
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  • promoted to SM-liiga is possible if a Mestis team beats a SM-liiga club in the qualification series and matches all the criteria set by the SM-liiga. Mestis...
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    forward, who last played with KalPa of the SM-liiga in the 2012–13 season. Hentunen played with HPK of the SM-liiga when he was drafted by the Calgary Flames...
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    professional ice hockey player. Most of his career was spent playing in the SM-liiga, the top league in Finland, though he also briefly played for the Nashville...
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  • Jokerit (category Former Liiga teams)
    secured six league championships as a prominent member of the Finnish SM-liiga in the years 1973, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, and 2002. Additionally, Jokerit...
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  • The 200102 Edmonton Oilers season was the Oilers' 23rd season in the National Hockey League, and they were coming off a 39–28–12–3 record in 2000–01,...
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    trophy as SM-liiga rookie of the year. He won the Matti Keinonen and Jari Kurri trophies in 1998 as the most effective player of the regular season and most...
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    his first full SM-liiga season in 200102 with Kärpät. Although the team did not get far in the playoffs, Thomas played a successful season of 32 games with...
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    began his professional career in 1989–90 with Jokerit of the SM-liiga and played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Anaheim...
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