Imatran Ketterä

Ice hockey team in Imatra
       CEOCarlo GrünnGeneral managerTurkka PartanenHead coachTuomo RopoAsst. coachesTeemu Asikainen
Tero SainioCaptainElmeri KaksonenAffiliateSaiPa (Liiga)Websitehttp://www.kettera.net/ChampionshipsMestis champion3: 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22

Imatran Ketterä is an ice hockey club based in Imatra, Finland. Ketterä plays in the Finnish second-tier league, Mestis, during the 2022–23 season.

Ketterä has played in Mestis since 2017 and has won the championship three times (2019, 2021, 2022).[1][2] With the 2020 playoffs being cancelled due to COVID-19, Ketterä has been the defending champion of Mestis for four years.[3]

Honours

Champions

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Mestis (3): 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Suomi-sarja (2): 2008–09, 2016–17
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Finnish Cup (3): 2018, 2019, 2021

Runners-up

  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mestis (2): 2022–23, 2023–24
  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Suomi-sarja (1): 2015-16

Notable players

  • Finland Petteri Nokelainen
  • Canada Keith Gretzky
  • Finland Petteri Sihvonen
  • Finland Joni Yli-Torkko
  • Finland Olli Sipiläinen
  • Mexico Brian Baxter Arroyo Lopez
  • Canada Steve Peters
  • Finland Heikki Mälkiä
  • Finland Pasi Nurminen
  • Finland Jussi Markkanen
  • United States Gary Prior
  • Iceland Björn Robert Sigurdarson
  • Italy Michael Messner

References

  1. ^ "Ketterä on Mestiksen mestari!!! — Juhlat Imatralla ovat alkaneet". Etelä-Saimaa (in Finnish). 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  2. ^ "KETTERÄ ON MESTIKSEN MESTARI KAUDELLA 2020-2021!". mestis.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  3. ^ "Mestiksen mestaruus pysyy neljännenkin vuoden Ketterällä – "Meillä oli aina kasassa kova neljän ketjun pumppu"". Yle Urheilu (in Finnish). 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2022-10-13.


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