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All time leagues: Juniors | SM-liiga | U17 Ylempi | U19 Ylempi | Juniors (U20) | Jr. A SM-Liiga | Jr. A Suomi-Sarja | Jr. B SM-sarja | Jr. B Mestis | Jr. B Suomi-sarja | Jr. B aluesarjat | Jr. B2 SM-sarja | Jr. B2 Mestis | Jr. B2 Suomi-sarja | Jr. C SM-sarja | Jr. C Mestis | Jr. C Suomi-sarja | Jr. C aluesarjat | Naisten Liiga | Liigakarsinta | I divisioona | Jr. A I divisioona | Jr. B I divisioona | Jr. B2 I divisioona | Jr. C I Divisioona | Jr. C II Divisioona
This club in 2008-2009: SM-liiga | Jr. A SM-Liiga | Jr. B SM-sarja | Jr. C SM-sarja | Liigakarsinta
# | Pos | Player name | State | Born | Height | Weight | Shoots | |
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G | Tomas Duba | 02.07.1981 | 183 cm | 80 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
G | Juha Järvenpää | 11.05.1989 | 184 cm | 86 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
G | Tuomo Karjalainen | 12.06.1980 | 177 cm | 78 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
G | Eero Kilpeläinen | 07.05.1985 | 185 cm | 78 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
G | Jussi Rynnäs | 22.05.1987 | 196 cm | 98 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
D | Jesse Jyrkkiö | 29.06.1989 | 180 cm | 83 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
D | Olli Korkeavuori | 26.08.1979 | 189 cm | 95 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
D | Matti Kuusisto | 06.04.1982 | 174 cm | 80 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
D | Tero Määttä | 02.01.1982 | 188 cm | 100 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
D | Mikko Palomäki | 30.01.1982 | 189 cm | 92 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
RD | Pasi Peltonen | 17.02.1972 | 186 cm | 90 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
D | Miro Rahkola | 10.10.1988 | 190 cm | 90 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
D | Jussi Ruohola | 11.02.1986 | 180 cm | 86 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
LD | Tapio Sammalkangas | 11.07.1980 | 179 cm | 89 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
D | Ville Uusitalo | 06.07.1979 | 184 cm | 80 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Preston Callander | 13.05.1980 | 183 cm | 87 kg | N/A | Show profile» | ||
C | Derek Damon | 12.11.1980 | 183 cm | 88 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Patrik Forsbacka | 12.08.1982 | 190 cm | 87 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
LW | Tommi Huhtala | 07.12.1987 | 183 cm | 90 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Tuomas Huhtanen | 16.03.1987 | 186 cm | 94 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Aki Keinänen | 04.01.1984 | 173 cm | 83 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
LW | Marko Kivenmäki | 20.07.1975 | 175 cm | 80 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
C | Matti Kuparinen | 16.10.1984 | 181 cm | 94 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
RW | Marko Luomala | 02.06.1980 | 187 cm | 91 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Antti Mäkilä | 01.04.1989 | 188 cm | 85 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
RW | Marko Mäkinen | 31.03.1977 | 195 cm | 115 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
LW | Niko Palonen | 30.01.1989 | 187 cm | 95 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
F | Ossi Pellinen | 06.05.1983 | 193 cm | 83 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Alexander Plyuschev | 08.02.1986 | 185 cm | 89 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
C | Erik Rasmussen | 28.03.1977 | 186 cm | 95 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
RW | Sakari Salminen | 31.05.1988 | 180 cm | 73 kg | right | Show profile» | ||
LW | Veli-Matti Savinainen | 05.01.1986 | 181 cm | 82 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
F | Severi Sillanpää | 07.02.1988 | 182 cm | 82 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
RW | Markku Tähtinen | 10.04.1978 | 177 cm | 84 kg | left | Show profile» | ||
C | Teemu Virkkunen | 13.01.1979 | 183 cm | 80 kg | left | Show profile» |
Coach name | State | Born | Coach position | |
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Kari Lehtonen | 13.06.1966 | Goalie coach | Show profile» | |
Karri Kivi | 31.01.1970 | Assistant Coach | Show profile» | |
Jukka Hirsimäki | 25.01.1957 | GM | Show profile» | |
Alpo Suhonen | 17.06.1948 | Head Coach | Show profile» | |
Pasi Kaukoranta | 05.07.1967 | Assistant Coach | Show profile» | |
Mika Pieniniemi | 26.04.1966 | Assistant Coach | Show profile» |
* no longer in the club
Retired numbers
2 - Antti Heikkilä
4 - Arto Javanainen
12 - Tapio Levo
13 - Veli-Pekka Ketola
89 - Jaroslav Otevrel
The team was established in 1967 by merging two local teams, Karhut and RU-38.
Notable players:Champions ’65, ’71, ’78
League winners:
Fastest Liiga goal
Markus Nurmi of TPS needed only four seconds to score on Ässät's young goalie Rasmus Korhonen for the fastest goal ever in the Finnish top league.
The game was the Liiga debut for the 18-year-old goalie.
Fastest Liiga goals:
4 seconds: Markus Nurmi, TPS / TPS-Ässät November 28 2020
5 seconds: Jari Laiho, Lukko / Lukko-Jokerit December 6 1979
5 seconds: Esa Välioja, Tappara / Tappara-Jokerit January 31 1982
5 seconds: Seppo Ahokainen, Tappara / Ilves-Tappara December 6 1983
Source: Iitalehti
(29 Nov 2020)New Sports Director at Ässät
Former player and Karhu-Kissat junior chief Jari Korpisalo has been chosen to replace Mika Toivola as Ässät Sports Director.
Korpisalo and Ässät has agreed to a 3-year deal starting in early January. Korpisalo played 575 games for Ässät between 1990 - 2005 and was the team's best scorer 6 times during that era. Since 2006 he had been working for his own junior team Karhu-Kissat as a junior chief.
Current Sporting Director Toivola will continue as usual until January and after year change they will sit down and decide how they shall split the work.
(06 Nov 2015)Porin Ässät participates in season 2008-2009: SM-liiga, Jr. A SM-Liiga, Jr. B SM-sarja, Jr. C SM-sarja, Liigakarsinta
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