Hanlon to coach Jokerit next season

15.2.2008 14:06

One of SM-liiga’s top teams Jokerit will be coached by a Canadian next sesaon also. Doug Shedden who coaches the Finnish national team as well will be replaced by countryman Glen Hanlon after this season. The former Detroit Red Wings goalie Hanlon visited Helsinki last weekend and ...

Karalahti wants to return to IFK's locker room.

One more return from the prodigal son?

30.12.2007 17:23

Defenseman Jere Karalahti has been a familiar name in the headlines through out his career. In November the former NHL’er was arrested due to a drug suspicion. Karalahti is allegedly involved a huge amphetamine case, that involves more that 20 people. If Karalahti is found guilty, he...

Finland is no stranger to Ben Eaves, whose father Mike coached HIFK Helsinki some ten years ago.

Singin' the Blues

4.12.2007 16:22

There is very little doubt who was the hottest team in SM-liiga in November. The smokin' Espoo Blues collected eight wins from nine games and climbed up to third spot in standings. Eight consecutive wins on regular time is a franchise record. Blues will meet the league leading Kärpät on Wednesday at...

The Young and Hungry on a point streak

19.11.2007 16:36 (Päivitetty 19.11.2007 16:36)

Finnish Hockey League, SM-liiga returned from a week’s break last Monday. TPS Turku was heating up before the break and the team has been one of the hottest over the last few weeks. “The young and hungry” are skating in a seven game point streak. During the streak they have collected 17...

Tim Stapleton is the number one in goals in SM-liiga.

The Pelican Brief

6.11.2007 15:49 (Päivitetty 6.11.2007 15:49)

The Finnish Hockey League, SM-liiga, is taking a break at the moment because of the EuroHockey Tour tournament held in Helsinki this weekend (8th to 11th of November). The league will back in action on November 13th. The fall season has been played in a surprising command with Lahti...

Matt Nickerson.

It's Nickerson time - again

31.10.2007 16:57 (Päivitetty 31.10.2007 16:57)

Despite of being suspended, Ässät defenseman Matt Nickerson remains in the headlines. While suffering a three match ban he received a week earlier, Nickerson attacked Ilves defenseman Kevin Kantee after Saturday night's game in Pori. Nickerson and Kantee "bumped" into each other in the...

Matt Nickerson – the worst of

22.10.2007 20:36

It took only six games to see him go insane. Something snapped in the head of Ässät defenseman Matt Nickerson on Saturday night's match against TPS. At the end of the second period Nickerson slashed brutally TPS forward Antti Erkinjuntti's hands, when Erkinjuntti had already passed the puck away....

Baxter's countdown

15.10.2007 17:40

IFK Helsinki's head coach Paul Baxter might be inches away from getting fired. Canadian Baxter, who replaced his countryman Bob Francis last season, has collected only 14 points this season with HIFK and the team is stuck at 11th position in SM-liiga. Over the last three weeks HIFK has only three...

It has been a hard week for Lars Helminen.

Breaking the jaw

8.10.2007 17:57

It's unbelievable, how bad luck two brothers can have. It wasn't enough, that Dwight Helminen's jaw was broken by the puck in JYP Jyväskylä's training camp in Moscow in August. And wasn't enough that Dwight's younger brother and team mate Lars lost a couple of teeth three weeks ago in a game against...

KalPa's power forward Jeremy Stevenson picked up a challenge from Jokerit's big guy Sami Helenius on Saturday, but the linesmen didn't want to see it.

Linesmen ended the heavyweights bout

1.10.2007 12:32

There was a chance to see a real heavy weight bout in Finnish Hockey League (SM-liiga) coming to it's third week, but it remained only as chance. KalPa's power forward Jeremy Stevenson picked up a challenge from Jokerit's big guy Sami Helenius on Saturday, but the linesmen didn't want...

Finnish Hockey League In English

Welcome to newspaper Keskisuomalainen's hockey site. Keskisuomalainen is a 7-day newspaper, located in Jyväskylä, central Finland and it has around 190 000 readers every day. Our hockey site ksml.fi/kiekko was first introduced in January 2002.

This season we'll bring you the latest in Finnish Hockey League - or as we call it the SM-liiga - also in English. Our weekly review will be concentrating on foreign players in Finland, but it will also keep you updated on the league's top news in general.

Foreign Hockey Players' Video Interviews

JYP-Blues, Bernd Brückler ja Kalle Kaijomaa
14.2.2008 23:34
JYP-Jokerit, Marko Kauppinen ja Dwight Helminen
29.1.2008 23:50
JYP-Blues, Miikka Huczkowski ja Dwight Helminen
3.11.2007 22:09
JYP-HIFK, Billy Tibbetts ja Miikka Männikkö
22.2.2007 11:26
JYP-Kalpa, Jari Jääskeläinen ja Martin Sonnenberg
14.9.2006 10:23
JYP-Tappara, Mike Wirll ja Mika Lehto
2.2.2006 15:20
JYP-Kärpät, Kalle Sahlstedt ja Laurent Müller
8.10.2005 14:29
Haastattelussa Lucas Lawson
12.9.2005 12:00
Tappara-JYP, Jody Shelley ja Janne Ojanen
14.3.2005 13:53
JYP-Ässät, Jason Williams
22.1.2005 13:33
Jody Shelley
22.1.2005 13:28
Haastattelussa Steve Martins
4.11.2004 15:25
JYP-Kärpät, Eric Perrin
18.3.2003 12:00
JYP-Tappara, Eric Perrin
23.11.2002 12:00
JYP-Ässät, Scott Langkow
21.9.2002 12:00