Hannu Järvenpää

Hannu Rainer Järvenpää (born May 19, 1963 in Ii, Finland) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and a retired professional ice hockey player. He is the current Head Coach of Fehérvár AV19, a Hungarian team playing in the Erste Bank Hockey League.

Hannu Järvenpää
Born (1963-05-19) May 19, 1963
Ii, Finland
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 194 lb (88 kg; 13 st 12 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shot Left
National team  Finland
NHL Draft 145th overall, 1982
Montreal Canadiens
71st overall, 1986
Winnipeg Jets
Playing career 1981–1995

Järvenpää played 114 games for the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL and is a member of the Finnish ice hockey Hall of Fame.[1]

Playing career

Järvenpää played for Kärpät in Finland's top-flight Liiga in the early- and mid-1980s. From 1986 to 1989, he played 114 games for the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League (NHL). He then returned to Finland and joined Lukko in 1989, where he spent two years. The 1991–92 season saw him skate for Leksands IF in Sweden. After wearing Jokerit colours in 1992–93, he moved to fellow Liiga team Espoo Blues, where he spent the last two years of his playing career.

Järvenpää represented Finland's national team on several occasions, including the 1992 Olympic Games and the World Championships in 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991 and 1992 (silver medal).

Coaching career

He served as assistant coach of Liiga team SaiPa from 2003 to 2005 followed by a one-year stint with fellow Liiga outfit Lahti Pelicans in the same position.

Järvenpää took over head coaching duties at HDD Olimpija Ljubljana, a Slovenian member of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL), in 2009 and remained in that job until 2012. He then served as head coach of fellow EBEL team EV VSV from 2012 to November 2015, when he was sacked.[2] In early January 2016, he was named head coach of Alba Volán Székesfehérvár[3] and parted ways with the EBEL team at the end of the 2015–16 season.

In May 2016, he was named head coach of Lausitzer Füchse of the German second division DEL2.[4] He was presented with DEL2 Coach of the Year honors in the 2016–17 season.[5]

Career player statistics
    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1981–82 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 141121318 31124
1982–83 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 331582354 —————
1983–84 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 3715132846 1033610
1983–84 Olympiajoukkue Liiga 41014 —————
1984–85 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 3412122445 72242
1985–86 Oulun Kärpät Liiga 362693548 552712
1986–87 Winnipeg Jets NHL 201898 —————
1987–88 Winnipeg Jets NHL 416111734 —————
1987–88 Moncton Hawks AHL 53142 —————
1988–89 Winnipeg Jets NHL 53471141 —————
1988–89 Moncton Hawks AHL 41010 —————
1989–90 Lukko Liiga 3812152748 —————
1990–91 Lukko Liiga 4327184554 42244
1991–92 Leksands IF SHL 2244828 —————
1991–92 Leksands IF Allsvenskan 18281016 1113412
1992–93 Jokerit Liiga 44681436 30110
1993–94 Kiekko-Espoo Liiga 4415163140 —————
1994–95 Kiekko-Espoo Liiga 45961520 40002
NHL totals 114 11 26 37 83 — — — — —

References
  1. "Suomen jääkiekkomuseo: Jääkiekkoleijonat - Hannu Järvenpää". jaakiekkomuseo.vapriikki.fi. Archived from the original on 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  2. "VSV wirft Trainer Hannu Järvenpää raus". www.nachrichten.at. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  3. marksoft. "Hannu Järvenpää new coach at Szekesfehervar - eishockeynews.at". www.eishockeynews.at. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  4. Friebel, Andreas. "News | Lausitzer Füchse". www.lausitzer-fuechse.de. Archived from the original on 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  5. GmbH, Thomas Röstel, Matthias Geissler - Sports Trade. "Kaufbeurens Stefan Vajs ist bester Spieler in der DEL2 2016/2017 | del-2.org". del-2.org (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-05.
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