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All time leagues: Juniors | Liiga | 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 2023-2024: Liiga | Jr. A SM-Liiga | Jr. B SM-sarja | Jr. C SM-sarja
# | Pos | Player name | State | Born | Height | Weight | Shoots | |
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G | Karolus Kaarlehto | ![]() | 01.09.1997 | 187 cm | 81 kg | left | Show profile» | |
41 | G | Niklas Rubin | ![]() | 23.12.1995 | 182 cm | 92 kg | left | Show profile» |
D | Verneri Hellman | ![]() | 11.06.2003 | 188 cm | 82 kg | left | Show profile» | |
D | Martin Lefebvre | ![]() | 23.06.1992 | 180 cm | 84 kg | left | Show profile» | |
D | Aleksi Matinmikko | ![]() | 06.03.2000 | 181 cm | 82 kg | right | Show profile» | |
D | Joona Riekkinen | ![]() | 05.03.1999 | 184 cm | 87 kg | left | Show profile» | |
D | Tuomas Salmela | ![]() | 30.06.1995 | 187 cm | 85 kg | left | Show profile» | |
D | Libor Zábranský | ![]() | 26.05.2000 | 185 cm | 86 kg | right | Show profile» | |
C | Marcus Davidsson | ![]() | 18.11.1998 | 184 cm | 87 kg | left | Show profile» | |
RW | Jonathan Davidsson | ![]() | 12.03.1997 | 181 cm | 84 kg | right | Show profile» | |
C | Dylan Fabre | ![]() | 10.11.2000 | 179 cm | 76 kg | left | Show profile» | |
C | Will Graber | ![]() | 03.06.1996 | 195 cm | 86 kg | right | Show profile» | |
C | Kasperi Ojantakanen | ![]() | 12.01.1995 | 183 cm | 79 kg | right | Show profile» | |
LW | Lassi Vanhatalo | ![]() | 08.01.1998 | 200 cm | 100 kg | left | Show profile» | |
RW | Jami Virtanen | ![]() | 07.08.2000 | 183 cm | 87 kg | right | Show profile» | |
C | Otso Ylitalo | ![]() | 04.01.2005 | 191 cm | 80 kg | left | Show profile» |
Coach name | State | Born | Coach position | |
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Jaakko Rosendahl | ![]() | 23.02.1983 | Goalie coach | Show profile» |
Jere Härkälä | ![]() | 10.01.1985 | Head Coach | Show profile» |
Hannes Hyvönen | ![]() | 29.08.1975 | Team Staff | Show profile» |
Hermanni Vidman | ![]() | 30.03.1979 | Assistant Coach | Show profile» |
Timo Turunen | ![]() | 02.11.1964 | Fitness coach | Show profile» |
Janne-Petteri Vuorinen | ![]() | 27.12.1982 | Sporting Director | 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 2023-2024: Liiga, Jr. A SM-Liiga, Jr. B SM-sarja, Jr. C SM-sarja
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