Jari Risku
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| Born |
11 February 1966 Helsinki, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Played for | Jokerit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current NSML coach | HPK Hämeenlinna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1984–1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 2000–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jari Risku (born 11 February 1966) is a Finnish ice hockey coach, currently serving as head coach of HPK Kiekkonaiset in the Naisten Liiga. He had a brief career as a professional ice hockey defenceman with Jokerit during 1984 to 1987, appearing in a total of 41 SM-liiga games across three seasons.[1]
Coaching career
Risku most recently served as head coach of the Austrian national team for the 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A and was previously head coach of KMH Budapest in the European Women's Hockey League (EWHL) during the 2018–19 season. He was the first head coach of Team Kuortane from the team's creation in 2010 until 2018 – winning the Hannu Saintula Award in the 2017–18 season – and coached the Finnish national under-18 team during 2014 to 2018. An Olympic medalist as assistant coach of the Finnish national team that played in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics, he also led the Finnish team to a silver medal as head coach for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2011 Winter Universiade. [2][3]
References
- ^ Suomen Jääkiekkoliitto; Jääkiekkon SM-liiga Oy (2020). Aaltonen, Juha (ed.). Jääkiekkokirja 2021: Suomen Jääkiekkoliiton ja Liiga Kausijulkaisu 2020–2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Uusi Suomi/Kiekkolehti. p. 486. ISSN 0784-3321. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ Savolainen, Samuel (19 May 2022). "HPK:n naisten liigajoukkueeseen uusia kasvoja – nuori lupaus puolustukseen, paluumuuttaja maaliin ja valmentajatulokas remmiin". Hämeen Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 5 July 2022.
- ^ "HPK Naisten katsaus kauteen 2021–2022 – uudeksi päävalmentajaksi Jari Risku". Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (in Finnish). 7 April 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database