TPS (ice hockey)
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- This article is about the ice hockey club. For the football club, see Turun Palloseura.
| TPS | |
| Image:TPS-Turku.png | |
| Founded | 1922 |
| Home ice | Elysée Arena |
| Based in | Turku |
| Colours | Black, White |
| League | SM-liiga |
| Head coach | Hannu Jortikka |
| General manager | |
TPS is a Finnish ice hockey team playing in SM-liiga based at Elysée Arena (capacity 11820), Turku.
- Founded: 1922
- Arena: Elysée Arena (capacity 11,820)
- Uniform colours: Black, White
- Logo design:
- League championships won: 10 (1956, 1976, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001)
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History
Established in 1922 as Turun palloseura, which the acronym derives from. The club undertook ice hockey activities after 1929. Today, the full name of the club that own 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.
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Notable players
- Timo Nummelin
- Urpo Ylönen
- Juhani Tamminen
- Hannu Virta
- Saku Koivu
- Esa Keskinen
- Jukka Vilander
- Mikko Eloranta
- Antero Nittymaki
- Miikka Kiprusoff
- Fredrik Norrena
- Petteri Nummelin
- Aki Berg
- Sami Salo
- Jere Lehtinen
- Kimmo Timonen
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Retired numbers
3 Timo Nummelin (allowed to use by his son Petteri)
11 Saku Koivu (not used by anyone except himself after he began his NHL career)
23 Hannu Virta
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See also
fi:Turun Palloseura ru:ТПС (хоккейный клуб, Турку) sv:HC TPS