HPK
City	Hämeenlinna
League	Liiga
Founded	1929 (1929)
Home arena	Pohjantähti Areena
Colours	Orange, black, white
Owner(s)	HPK Liiga Oy
General manager	Antti Toivanen
Head coach	Maso Lehtonen
Captain	Juuso Hietanen
Parent club(s)	HPK Edustusjääkiekko ry
Website	hpk.fi
Championships
Playoff championships	2006, 2019

Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho (HPK) is a professional ice hockey team in the Liiga, the top men's ice hockey league in Finland. Their home ice is the Ritari-areena in Hämeenlinna. HPK was established in 1929. The parent club of the team is HPK Edustusjääkiekko ry^[1] and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights," with a logo representing a knight's helmet. HPK won their first SM-liiga championship in 2006 and the second in 2019.^[2]

Honours

Champions

• SM-liiga Kanada-malja (2): 2006, 2019

Runners-up

• SM-liiga (3): 1952, 1993, 2010
• SM-liiga (9): 1954, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007

Other awards for the club:

• I-Divisioona (it was the second level of ice hockey in Finland) (5): 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1988

Players

2019-2020

Goalkeepers

• 01 Tuomas Aalto
• 35 Antti Karjalainen
• 60 Rasmus Reijola
• 83 Joona Voutilainen

Defenders

• 06 Niklas Friman (C)
• 10 Atso Lehtinen
• 25 Roope Laavainen
• 38 Miro Karjalainen
• 42 Arto Laatikainen (A)
• 43 Otto Latvala
• 44 Paavo Tyni
• 53 Nico Nurmikanta
• 63 Elmeri Eronen
• 74 Petteri Nikkilä (A)

Forwards

• 14 Mikko Lahtela
• 15 Santtu Hakanen
• 16 Jere Jokinen
• 19 Cody Kunyk
• 21 Jere Innala
• 26 Tommi Tikka
• 27 Filip Krivosik
• 28 Markus Nenonen (A)
• 29 Miro Ruokonen
• 34 Erkka Seppälä
• 40 Janne Tavi
• 45 Henri Kanninen
• 48 Valtteri Puustinen
• 49 Kasperi Heinänen
• 51 Philippe Cornet
• 71 Niclas Lucenius
• 81 Joona Monto
• 86 Kristjan Kombe

Honored members

• 02 Eero Salisma
• 09 Jyrki Louhi
• 13 Marko Palo
• 17 Juha Hietanen
• 18 Hannu Savolainen
• 36 Marko Tuulola

NHL alumni