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Porin Ässät

Short name: Ässät
Year of foundation: 1932
Colours: red, black, white
Club status: active
Address: HC Ässät Pori Oy
Jäähallinpolku
28500 Pori
Phone: +358 (0) 2 631 4650
Fax: +358 (0) 2 631 6800
Email: media@assat.com
WWW: Ässät Pori

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Season 1998-1999

This club in 1998-1999: Juniors | SM-liiga | Jr. A SM-Liiga | Jr. B SM-sarja | Jr. C SM-sarja

Pos	Player name	Born	Height	Weight	Shoots
G	Aki Kemppi	28.01.1980	173 cm	77 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Pasi Kuivalainen	15.07.1972	180 cm	78 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Mika Lehto	12.04.1979	180 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Tapani Nurmi	26.03.1981	175 cm	74 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Jan Benda	28.04.1972	190 cm	98 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Joacim Esbjörs	04.07.1970	183 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Santeri Immonen	29.07.1972	174 cm	75 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Tuomo Kyhä	09.08.1976	186 cm	100 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Mika Laaksonen	18.03.1968	183 cm	87 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Pauli Levokari	07.04.1979	196 cm	105 kg	left	Show profile»
RD	Pasi Peltonen	17.02.1972	186 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
RD	Vesa Salo	17.04.1965	194 cm	92 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Mikko Sokka	30.01.1967	178 cm	80 kg	right	Show profile»
RW	Tero Arkiomaa	20.02.1968	188 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Jonas Esbjörs	01.11.1973	180 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Vjačeslav Fandul	17.03.1969	178 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Timo Hakanen	26.03.1977	191 cm	103 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Jokke Heinänen	20.03.1970	184 cm	87 kg	right	Show profile»
RW	Juho Jokinen	23.02.1976	175 cm	76 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Vesa Karjalainen	15.01.1966	180 cm	84 kg	right	Show profile»
LW	Marko Kivenmäki	20.07.1975	175 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Mikael Kotkaniemi	30.04.1969	180 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Jari Levonen	23.08.1966	177 cm	83 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Harri Lönnberg	07.06.1971	180 cm	78 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Janne Mäkelä	09.03.1977	172 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Niko Mikkola	09.01.1974	173 cm	77 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Andrei Potaichuk	18.08.1970	177 cm	98 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Rauli Raitanen	14.01.1970	188 cm	92 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Timo Saarikoski	17.07.1969	182 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Kimmo Salminen	04.11.1973	176 cm	78 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Joel Salonen	15.01.1974	177 cm	83 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Timo Salonen	25.08.1976	177 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Markku Tähtinen	10.04.1978	177 cm	84 kg	left	Show profile»

Coach name	State	Born	Coach position
Esko Nokelainen *		19.03.1947	Head Coach	Show profile»

* no longer in the club

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Isomäki Arena

Adress: Metsämiehenkatu 21
28500 Pori
Phone: +358 2 621 1441
Capacity: 6443
Opened in: 1971

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:

2012-2013: SM-liiga
2004-2005: Jr. C SM-sarja
1979-1980: Jr. A SM-Liiga
1977-1978: SM-liiga
1974-1975: Jr. B SM-sarja
1966-1967: Suomen Cup

from 1900 to 1968:

from 1968 to present:

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Recent articlesShow all articles»

New rule interpretations in the Finnish Liiga: More speed and excitement on the ice (10 Sep 2024)
Liiga games between December 3 and 19 postponed (02 Dec 2020)
Ässät Pori fired CEO (16 May 2018)
A weekend of turning points? (23 Oct 2016)
Liiga – Fighting for position (04 Feb 2016)

Recent newsShow all news»

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)

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)

Team statistics

Historic rosters:

Historic statistics:

Past results:

League standings:

Fast factsseason 1998-1999

Youngest player: Tapani Nurmi (18 years)
Oldest player: Vesa Salo (34 years)
Shortest player: Janne Mäkelä (172 cm)
Tallest player: Pauli Levokari (196 cm)
Nationalities: Finland (28), Germany (1), Latvia (1), Russia (1), Sweden (2)

Leagues

Porin Ässät participates in season 1998-1999: Juniors, SM-liiga, Jr. A SM-Liiga, Jr. B SM-sarja, Jr. C SM-sarja

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