Jarkko Immonen

For the hockey player drafted by Dallas Stars, see Jarkko Immonen (ice hockey, born 1984).

Jarkko Immonen

Born

April 19, 1982
Rantasalmi, Finland

Height

6 ft 1 in (185 cm)

Weight

212 lb (96 kg; 15 st 2 lb)

Position

Centre

Shoots

Right

NLA team
Former teams

EV Zug
JYP Jyväskylä
Ässät
New York Rangers
Ak Bars Kazan
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod

National team

Finland

NHL Draft

254th overall, 2002
Toronto Maple Leafs

Playing career

1998–present

Medal record

Olympic Games
	2014 Sochi
	2010 Vancouver
Ice Hockey World Championships
	2011 Slovakia
	2014 Belarus

Jarkko Immonen (born April 19, 1982) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the EV Zug of the National League A.

Playing career

Immonen made his debut in Finland’s second-tier league Mestis with TuTo Hockey during the 2000-01 season. For the following year, he joined Ässät of the country’s top-tier Liiga. He then signed with fellow Liiga side JYP Jyväskylä in 2002 and remained three years at the club.

Immonen was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft as their eighth round pick, 254th overall.

On March 3, 2004, Immonen was traded by the Maple Leafs to the New York Rangers as part of the Brian Leetch trade.^[1] He made his NHL debut for the Rangers during the 2005-06 season. In the course of his two-year stint with the Rangers, he played a total of 20 games in the NHL and mostly gained playing time in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Hartford Wolf Pack. In his 141 AHL contests played, he scored 54 goals and had 75 assists.^[2]

He returned to Finland for the 2007-08 campaign, again joining JYP, where he spent another two years and won the Finnish championship in 2009, before signing with Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) shortly after. In his first year, he won the championship with Kazan. After four years with Ak Bars, Immonen decided to move on and join fellow KHL team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod for the 2014-15 season.

On March 30, 2015, he agreed to a two-year contract with the EV Zug of the NLA.^[3]

National team

Immonen won the Bronze medal with Finland at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.^[4] He won the Gold medal with Finland at the 2011 IIHF World Championship, where he scored the most goals (9 in 9 games) and the most points (12) in the tournament. He was also named to the all-star lineup.

Career statistics

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1999–00	SaPKo	FNL-2	42	18	16	34	34	—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	TuTo	FNL-2	41	20	20	40	22	—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Ässät	SM-l	44	0	2	2	6	—	—	—	—	—
2002–03	JYP	SM-l	56	10	23	33	34	7	1	1	2	8
2003–04	JYP	SM-l	52	23	26	49	28	2	0	0	0	0
2004–05	JYP	SM-l	54	19	28	47	24	3	0	2	2	2
2005–06	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL	74	30	40	70	34	6	2	3	5	2
2005–06	New York Rangers	NHL	6	2	0	2	0	—	—	—	—	—
2006–07	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL	54	20	26	46	30	7	2	6	8	2
2006–07	New York Rangers	NHL	14	1	5	6	4	—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	JYP	SM-l	54	26	37	63	54	6	1	8	9	8
2008–09	JYP	SM-l	58	23	41	64	40	15	1	10	11	24
2009–10	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	56	13	26	39	26	22	4	10	14	8
2010–11	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	53	21	17	38	30	9	2	4	6	2
2011–12	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	53	14	12	26	8	12	0	2	2	0
2012–13	Ak Bars Kazan	KHL	50	11	20	31	10	18	4	4	8	12
2013–14	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL	54	14	24	38	18	7	3	1	4	2
2014–15	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	KHL	57	17	22	39	26	5	2	2	4	2
NHL totals			20	3	5	8	4	—	—	—	—	—
AHL totals			128	50	66	116	64	13	4	9	13	4
SM-l totals			318	101	157	258	186	33	3	21	24	42
KHL totals			323	90	121	211	118	73	15	23	38	26

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