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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 2003-2004

This club in 2003-2004: SM-liiga | Jr. A SM-Liiga | Jr. B SM-sarja | Jr. C SM-sarja | Jr. A I divisioona

Pos	Player name	Born	Height	Weight	Shoots
G	Matti Järvinen	20.04.1984	174 cm	76 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Scott Langkow	21.04.1975	180 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Teemu Lassila	26.03.1983	183 cm	84 kg	left	Show profile»
G	Tommi Tervo	12.03.1984	175 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Antti Boman	05.08.1974	188 cm	95 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Jarkko Glad	17.07.1973	184 cm	92 kg	left	Show profile»
RD	Pekka Kangasalusta	22.09.1977	175 cm	92 kg	left	Show profile»
RD	Pasi Peltonen	17.02.1972	186 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Mika Rontti	30.11.1983	183 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Steve Shirreffs	18.02.1976	190 cm	99 kg	right	Show profile»
D	Olegs Sorokins	04.01.1974	178 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
LD	Iikka Törnvall	13.01.1983	182 cm	84 kg	left	Show profile»
D	Atte Valli	30.08.1984	181 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Martin Bergeron	20.01.1968	186 cm	81 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Vjačeslav Fandul	17.03.1969	178 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Tuomo Harjula	17.01.1978	175 cm	78 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Jesse Joensuu	05.10.1987	193 cm	96 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Juha-Pekka Ketola	21.01.1983	186 cm	85 kg	left	Show profile»
C	Juha Kiilholma	26.06.1982	183 cm	87 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Marko Kivenmäki	20.07.1975	175 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Jari Korpisalo	17.02.1966	178 cm	80 kg	right	Show profile»
C	Matti Kuparinen	16.10.1984	181 cm	94 kg	right	Show profile»
RW	Kristian Kuusela	19.02.1983	175 cm	85 kg	right	Show profile»
F	Mikko Peltonen	30.07.1982	188 cm	84 kg	left	Show profile»
F	Tomi Pöllänen	26.05.1978	179 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Timo Salonen	25.08.1976	177 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
RW	Pasi Tuominen	03.05.1974	185 cm	90 kg	right	Show profile»
C	Teemu Virkkunen	13.01.1979	183 cm	80 kg	left	Show profile»
LW	Samu Wesslin	29.06.1975	180 cm	90 kg	left	Show profile»

Coach name	State	Born	Coach position
Juhani Tamminen		26.05.1950	GM	Show profile»
Mika Toivola		06.03.1971	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 2003-2004

Youngest player: Jesse Joensuu (16 years)
Oldest player: Jari Korpisalo (38 years)
Shortest player: Matti Järvinen (174 cm)
Tallest player: Jesse Joensuu (193 cm)
Nationalities: Canada (2), Finland (24), Latvia (2), USA (1)

Leagues

Porin Ässät participates in season 2003-2004: SM-liiga, Jr. A SM-Liiga, Jr. B SM-sarja, Jr. C SM-sarja, Jr. A I divisioona

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