TPS (ice hockey)

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TPS
League	SM-liiga
Founded	1929
History	TPS 1929 - present
Arena	Elysée Arena
City	Turku, Finland
Team Colors	Black, white, gold
General Manager	{{{generalmanager}}}
Head Coach	Hannu Virta
Team Captain	Mika Alatalo

TPS is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Turku, Finland at the Elysée Arena.

Founded: 1929

Arena: Elysée Arena (capacity 11,820)

Uniform colours: black, white

Logo design: Gold TPS text is in the foreground of a black ball surrounded by gold leaves.

League championships won: 10 (1956, 1976, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001)

Finnish Cup won: 2

European Cup won: 1

European Hockey League won: 1

Super Cup won: 1

Contents 1 Team History 2 Notable Players 2.1 Former Players 2.2 Retired Numbers 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Team History

TPS was established in 1922 as Turun palloseura, from which the acronym derives. The club began ice hockey activities after 1929. Today, the full name of the company that owns the ice hockey team is HC TPS Turku Oy.

TPS has won the Finnish Championship in ice hockey 10 times: 1956, 1976, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993,1995, 1999, 2000 and 2001. Legendary coach Hannu Jortikka led the club to total of six Championships in 1989-91 and 1999-2001.

[edit] Notable Players

• Aki Berg
• Marko Kiprusoff
• Kai Nurminen

[edit] Former Players

• Mikko Eloranta
• Kari Jalonen
• Arto Javanainen
• Esa Keskinen
• Miikka Kiprusoff
• Saku Koivu
• Mikko Koivu
• Jere Lehtinen
• Fredrik Norrena
• Antero Niittymäki
• Petteri Nummelin
• Timo Nummelin
• Sami Salo
• Juhani Tamminen
• Kimmo Timonen
• Jukka Vilander
• Hannu Virta
• Urpo Ylönen

Brady Fetch

[edit] Retired Numbers

• 3 - Timo Nummelin (was allowed to be used by his son Petteri)
• 23 - Hannu Virta

[edit] See also

• Category:TPS players

[edit] External links

• TPS official web site

Ice hockey in Finland
SM-liiga teams : Ässät | Blues | HIFK | HPK | Ilves | Jokerit | JYP | KalPa | Kärpät | Lukko | Pelicans | SaiPa | Tappara | TPS
Trophies and awards: Kultainen kypärä | Kalevi Numminen trophy | Jarmo Wasama memorial trophy | Matti Keinonen trophy | Raimo Kilpiö trophy | Urpo Ylönen trophy | Pekka Rautakallio trophy | Aarne Honkavaara trophy | Veli-Pekka Ketola trophy | Lasse Oksanen trophy | Jari Kurri trophy
Former teams : FPS | Jokipojat | KooKoo | Koo-Vee | Sport | TuTo
Other leagues and teams : Mestis | Suomi-sarja | Finnish national men's ice hockey team | Finnish national women's ice hockey team