JYP Jyväskylä

JYP was founded in 1923. First it was the ice hockey section of the sports club Jyväskylän Palloilijat until 1977. Then they separated from that sports club to be an independent hockey club called JyP HT. The current full name of the club is JYP Jyväskylä Oy, having been registered as an osakeyhtiö since 1999. JYP has won the Finnish SM-liiga twice, in 2009 and 2012, having been the losing side in the play-off finals in 1989 and 1992.

JYP was founded in 1923 as Jyväskylän Palloilijat (Jyväskylä's Ballsport players in English). Originally the club was multi-sport club having competitive departments in football, pesäpallo (Finnish baseball), bandy and later ice hockey and basketball. In 1977 JyP divided due to financial reasons and ice hockey department began with new club, JyP HT (officially Jyväskylän Palloilijat Hockey Team) while football department formed JyP-77 (JJK Jyväskylä nowadays).

The new club started in I Division, the then-second tier of Finnish hockey. JyP HT promoted to the top tier for the 1985-86 SM-liiga season. With ambitious aims, they were fifth after regular season and surprisingly eliminated out of play-offs by only two points. At the next season, the target was in play-offs but seventh place was not enough. When the beginning of the third season was disappointment, head coach Erkka Westerlund – subsequently Finnish national team coach – got sacked.

On 8 September 2010, JYP entered into a partnership agreement with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL), to enable player transfer and training between the two teams and their developmental systems.^[1]

As of 30 January 2021^{[update][2][3]}

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
18		Joni Airo	RW	R	24	2020	Jyväskylä, Finland
36		Roni Allén	D	L	25	2017	Rovaniemi, Finland
14		Samuel Helenius	C	L	21	2020	Järvenpää, Finland
3		Anttoni Honka	D	R	23	2017	Jyväskylä, Finland
70		Joni Jurmo	D	L	22	2020	Espoo, Finland
2		Valtteri Kakkonen	D	R	24	2019	Jyväskylä, Finland
39		Oskari Kalajanniska	C	L	24	2018	Haapajärvi, Finland
51		Antti Kalapudas	C/LW	L	27	2019	Oulainen, Finland
52		Santeri Koskela	F	L	21	2020	Jyväskylä, Finland
8		Valtteri Koskela	D	L	21	2020	Jyväskylä, Finland
4		Kimi Kuusela	D	L	23	2019	Jyväskylä, Finland
95		Severi Lahtinen	W	L	25	2020	Vantaa, Finland
92		Brad Lambert	C	R	20	2020	Lahti, Finland
24		Aleksi Malinen	D	L	21	2020	Tuusula, Finland
6		Tomi Niku	D	L	22	2019	Jyväskylä, Finland
35		Niko Parkkinen	G	L	25	2019	Mikkeli, Finland
21		Patrik Puistola	W	L	23	2020	Tampere, Finland
40		Markus Ruusu	G	L	26	2019	Jyväskylä, Finland
33		Mikko Salmio (A)	W	L	32	2020	Jämsä, Finland
9		Aleksi Salonen (A)	D	R	31	2020	Muurame, Finland
25		Patrik Siikanen	LW/C	L	24	2020	Espoo, Finland
32		Jerry Turkulainen	RW	R	25	2016	Mikkeli, Finland
17		Samuel Valkeejärvi	C/RW	L	23	2020	Jyväskylä, Finland

• Head coach: Pekka Tirkkonen

• SM-liiga Kanada-malja (2): 2008–09, 2011–12

• SM-liiga Kanada-malja (2): 1988–89, 1991–92
• SM-liiga Kanada-malja (5): 1992–93, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2016–17

European Trophy:

• Winners (1): 2013

Champions Hockey League:

• Winners (1): 2018

• 01  Ari-Pekka Siekkinen
• 10  Pertti Rastela
• 13  Riikka Sallinen
• 19  Pentti Mikkilä
• 30  Risto Kurkinen

• Yohann Auvitu
• Olli Määttä
• Joonas Nättinen
• Harri Pesonen
• Tuomas Pihlman
• Raimo Summanen
• Sami Vatanen

• (in Finnish) JYP official web site