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| Lenni Killinen | |||
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| Born | June 15, 2000 Espoo, Finland | ||
| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb; 14 st 9 lb) | ||
| Position | LW/RW | ||
| Shoots | L | ||
| Liiga team Former teams | Pelicans Porin Ässät, Espoo United | ||
| NHL draft | 104, 2018 Carolina Hurricanes | ||
| Playing career | 2018–present | ||
Lenni Killinen is a Finnish ice hockey player who plays for Lahti Pelicans on season 2022-2023 in Liiga. [1]
In 2018 Lenni Killinen was drafted 104th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes. He played for Kiekko Espoo U20 that season. He played for Kiekko Espoo U20 38 games and 41 points. Overall he has played 112 games in Ässät with 39 points and 7 games in the World Junior Championships with 2 points. [1] [2]
The SM-liiga, colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, but the league and association have an agreement of cooperation. SM is a common abbreviation for Suomen mestaruus, "Finnish championship".
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Kim Michael Hirschovits-Gerz is a Finnish former professional ice hockey forward and current sports manager of Kiekko-Espoo in the Mestis. During his playing career, he skated in the Finnish Liiga with HIFK, Jokerit, the Espoo Blues, and Oulun Kärpät; in the Swedish Elitserien with Timrå IK and Luleå HF; and in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Dinamo Minsk. Hirschovits was drafted by the New York Rangers as their sixth-round pick, 194th overall, in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.
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The U20 SM-sarja is the premier junior men’s ice hockey league in Finland. It was previously known as the A-nuorten SM-sarja during 1945 to 1991 and the Nuorten SM-liiga during 1991 to 2020. The league was founded by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 1945 and a Finnish Champion in men’s under-20 ice hockey has been named annually since the league’s inaugural season – with the exception of the 2019–20 season, in which the playoffs were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eighteen to twenty teams compete in the U20 SM-sarja regular season, which is played in a preliminary ranking stage followed by a divisional or group stage.
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