Jarkko Immonen

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

Jarkko Immonen (born April 19, 1982) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Mikkelin Jukurit of the Liiga.

Jarkko Immonen
Immonen with the Hartford Wolf Pack in 2006
Born	(1982-04-19) April 19, 1982 (age 42) Rantasalmi, Finland
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	201 lb (91 kg; 14 st 5 lb)
Position	Centre
Shot	Right
Liiga team Former teams	Jukurit Ässät JYP Jyväskylä New York Rangers Ak Bars Kazan Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod EV Zug
National team	Finland
NHL draft	254th overall, 2002 Toronto Maple Leafs
Playing career	1998–2024

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 Swiss club, EV Zug of the NLA.^[3] At the conclusion of his contract with Zug, Immonen returned to Finland to play with his original club, JYP on a three-year contract from the 2017–18 season. ^[4]

On 14 April 2021, Immonen extended his professional career, leaving JYP as a free agent and signing a one-year contract with fellow Liiga club, Mikkelin Jukurit.^[5]

ON 5 May 2024, Immonen announced his retirement via an Instagram post.^[6]

International play

Immonen won the bronze medal with Finland at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.^[7] 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 and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1997–98	SaPKo	FIN.2 U20		14	8	12	20	0		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	SaPKo	FIN.2 U20		12	6	10	16	14		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	SaPKo	FIN.2		36	2	2	4	6		—	—	—	—	—
1999–2000	SaPKo	FIN.2 U20		2	1	1	2	10		—	—	—	—	—
1999–2000	SaPKo	FIN.2		42	18	16	34	34		—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	TuTo	FIN U20		1	0	1	1	0		—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	TuTo	Mestis		41	20	20	40	22		11	5	7	12	10
2001–02	Ässät	SM-l		44	0	2	2	6		—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Ässät	FIN.2 U20		—	—	—	—	—		5	4	0	4	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
2015–16	EV Zug	NLA		49	24	17	41	22		4	0	2	2	4
2016–17	EV Zug	NLA		49	12	14	26	28		15	4	6	10	41
2017–18	JYP	Liiga		59	13	37	50	14		6	3	1	4	14
2018–19	JYP	Liiga		60	15	32	47	42		3	0	1	1	2
2019–20	JYP	Liiga		59	21	23	44	14		—	—	—	—	—
2020–21	JYP	Liiga		59	13	15	28	14		—	—	—	—	—
2021–22	Jukurit	Liiga		60	18	10	28	24		7	1	1	2	2
Liiga totals				615	182	274	456	294		49	7	24	31	60
NHL totals				20	3	5	8	4		—	—	—	—	—
KHL totals				323	90	121	211	118		73	15	23	38	26

Medal record
Representing  Finland
Ice hockey
Olympic Games
	2014 Sochi
	2010 Vancouver
World Championships
	2011 Slovakia
	2014 Belarus
World Junior Championships
	2002 Czech Republic

International

Year	Team	Event	Result		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2000	Finland	WJC18			7	3	4	7	4
2002	Finland	WJC			7	4	3	7	6
2009	Finland	WC	5th		7	1	4	5	2
2010	Finland	OG			6	0	0	0	0
2010	Finland	WC	6th		7	3	1	4	4
2011	Finland	WC			9	9	3	12	2
2012	Finland	WC	4th		10	3	2	5	0
2014	Finland	OG			5	2	0	2	2
2014	Finland	WC			10	3	3	6	2
2015	Finland	WC	6th		7	0	0	0	2
Junior totals					14	7	7	14	10
Senior totals					61	21	13	34	14

References

1. "Rangers trade Brian Leetch to Toronto". USA Today. March 3, 2004. Retrieved March 3, 2004.
2. "TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League". theahl.com. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
3. "Zug signs Finnish World Champion Jarkko Immonen for the next two seasons". swisshockeynews.ch. March 30, 2015. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
4. "Jarkko Immonen has signed a three-year contract with JYP". swisshockeynews.ch. June 4, 2017. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
5. "Jukurit sign veteran Jarkko Immonen" (in Finnish). Mikkelin Jukurit. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
6. "Jarkko Immonen retires". The Hockey News. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
7. "Finland claim Bronze at Vancouver". National Hockey League. 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-02-03.

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
• Jarkko Immonen on nhlfinns.com