KalPa
City	Kuopio
League	Liiga
Founded	1929 (1929)
Home arena	Olvi Areena
Colours	Black, gold
Head coach	Petri Karjalainen
Captain	Tuomas Kiiskinen
Affiliate	IPK
Website	kalpa.fi

Kalevan Pallo (KalPa) is a professional ice hockey team which competes in the Finnish Liiga. They play in Kuopio, Finland at the Olvi Areena.

Established in 1929 as Sortavalan Palloseura in Sortavala, the club relocated to Kuopio in 1945 after its original hometown had been annexed by the Soviet Union. During its Sortavala years, the club was not active in ice hockey, but competed in association football, bandy, and pesäpallo instead. Ice hockey was introduced in 1947, and in 1956 KalPa officially replaced the more traditional Kuopio club KuPS in that sport thus specializing in hockey – minor league football was still continued until 1974 as a farm team of sorts for KuPS.

The full name of the company that runs the representative team today is KalPa Hockey Oy. The majority of the company is owned by former NHL players Sami Kapanen and Kimmo Timonen. Kapanen is the majority owner, controlling 50.5% of the franchise. Timonen owns 8%, while Timonen's former teammate Scott Hartnell owns 5%. Hartnell purchased a minority share of the team after getting financial advice from Kimmo Timonen during a road trip to Boston.

During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Timonen, Kapanen, and fellow NHL player Adam Hall were playing for KalPa. After winning the Mestis championship, KalPa returned to SM-liiga for the 2005–06 season, after being relegated six years earlier in 1999.

KalPa has won three medals: silvers in the 1990–91 and 2016–17 seasons and a bronze in the 2008–09 season. KalPa has also won the Spengler Cup, in year 2018.

• SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 1990–91, 2016-17
• SM-liiga Kanada-malja: 2008–09

• Mestis: 2003-04, 2004–05

• Finnish Liiga A-juniors (U20): 2007–08, 2017–18

• 2018

Source: eliteprospects.com^[1]As of July 28, 2021.

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
10		Gabe Bast	D	R	28	2021-22	Red Deer, Canada
18		Hugo Gallet	D	L	27	2021-22	Amiens, France
32		Juha Jatkola	G	L	22	2020-21	Kuopio, Finland
45		Eric Hjorth	D	R	23	2021-22	Göteborg, Sweden
34		Severi Immonen	F	L	24	2020-21	Tuusniemi, Finland
71		Matti Järvinen	C	L	35	2021-22	London, United Kingdom
91		Oliver Kapanen	C	R	21	2021-22	Timrå, Sweden
37		Eero Kilpeläinen	G	L	39	2019-20	Juva, Finland
19		Tuomas Kiiskinen	LW	L	22	2021-22	Kuopio, Finland
20		Aleksi Klemetti	LW	L	25	2018-19	Kuhmo, Finland
29		Henri Knuutinen	LW	L	27	2018-19	Kiuruvesi, Finland
17		Benjamin Korhonen	RW	L	23	2020-21	Ylivieska, Finland
41		Juuso Könönen	LW	L	26	2019-20	Kuopio, Finland
52		Roope Laavainen	D	R	26	2020-21	Helsinki, Finland
55		Lasse Lappalainen	D	L	35	2018-19	Kuopio, Finland
26		Jesper Mattila	D	L	27	2020-21	Tampere, Finland
9		Juuso Mäenpää	C	L	22	2020-21	Helsinki, Finland
67		Kasper Puutio	D	L	22	2021-22	Vaasa, Finland
6		Joona Riekkinen	D	L	25	2019-20	Kuopio, Finland
22		Aapeli Räsänen	D	R	26	2020-21	Tampere, Finland
–		Erkka Seppälä	C	L	25	2021-22	Hämeenlinna, Finland
12		Kasper Simontaival	RW	R	22	2021-22	Orivesi, Finland
74		Sami Tavernier	RW	R	27	2020-21	Annemasse, France
13		Tuomas Vartiainen	RW	L	28	2019-20	Oulu, Finland

• 1 - Pasi Kuivalainen
• 24 - Sami Kapanen
• 27 - Jouni Rinne
• 37 - Eero Kilpeläinen
• 44 - Kimmo Timonen

• Adam Hall (2004–05)
• Teemu Hartikainen (2008–10)
• Olli Jokinen (1994–95)
• Kasperi Kapanen (2012–15)
• Sami Kapanen (1990–94, 2004–05, 2008–10, 2011–14)
• Jarmo Kekäläinen (1983–85, 1991–92)
• Mikko Koskinen (2011–13)
• Artturi Lehkonen (2012–14)
• Juuso Riikola (2012–18)
• Craig Smith (2012)
• Derek Stepan (2012–13)
• Jeremy Stevenson (2007–08)
• Alexandre Texier (2017–19)
• Kimmo Timonen (1991–94, 2004–05)
• Jussi Timonen (2001–02, 2008–17) Canada Ryan Wilson,2018-2020

• Official website (in Finnish)
• KalPa junior official web site (in Finnish)
• Meltzer, Bill NHL.com article on KalPa. Retrieved 2007-11-07.