Imatran Ketterä

Imatran Ketterä is an ice hockey club based in Imatra, Finland. Ketterä plays in the Finnish second-tier league, Mestis, during the 2022–23 season.

Imatran Ketterä
City	Imatra
League	Mestis
Founded	1957
Home arena	Imatra Spa Areena (capacity: 1200)
Colours
CEO	Carlo Grünn
General manager	Turkka Partanen
Head coach	Tuomo Ropo
Asst. coaches	Teemu Asikainen Tero Sainio
Captain	Elmeri Kaksonen
Affiliate	SaiPa (Liiga)
Website	http://www.kettera.net/
Championships
Mestis champion	3: 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22

Ketterä has played in Mestis since 2017 and has won the championship three times (2019, 2021, 2022).^[1][2] With the 2020 playoffs being cancelled due to COVID-19, Ketterä has been the defending champion of Mestis for four years.^[3]

Honours

Champions

• Mestis (3): 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Suomi-sarja (2): 2008–09, 2016–17
• Finnish Cup (3): 2018, 2019, 2021

Runners-up

• Mestis (2): 2022–23, 2023–24
• Suomi-sarja (1): 2015-16

Notable players

• Petteri Nokelainen
• Keith Gretzky
• Petteri Sihvonen
• Joni Yli-Torkko
• Olli Sipiläinen
• Brian Baxter Arroyo Lopez
• Steve Peters
• Heikki Mälkiä
• Pasi Nurminen
• Jussi Markkanen
• Gary Prior
• Björn Robert Sigurdarson
• Michael Messner

References

1. "Ketterä on Mestiksen mestari!!! — Juhlat Imatralla ovat alkaneet". Etelä-Saimaa (in Finnish). 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
2. "KETTERÄ ON MESTIKSEN MESTARI KAUDELLA 2020-2021!". mestis.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-10-13.
3. "Mestiksen mestaruus pysyy neljännenkin vuoden Ketterällä – "Meillä oli aina kasassa kova neljän ketjun pumppu"". Yle Urheilu (in Finnish). 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2022-10-13.