Mikko Eloranta
Mikko Eloranta (born August 24, 1972 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish ice hockey left winger,playing for the Swedish tier 2 team Malmö Redhawks . He has represented Finland in both the Olympic Winter Games and the World Cup of Hockey.
Career
Eloranta was drafted 247th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. He would play for Boston for two seasons, and six games of a third before being traded, along with Jason Allison, to the Los Angeles Kings on October 24, 2001. He played for the Kings another two seasons. He then returned to Finland, playing for TPS in the Finnish National League.
(2006), Eloranta played in Switzerland for the Rapperswil/Jona Lakers. Eloranta suffered a major injury in August 2005 during an exhibition game, breaking a bone in his leg, and was not a member of the Silver Medal-winning Finnish Hockey Team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1995-96 | Ilves | SM-liiga | 43 | 18 | 15 | 33 | 86 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1996-97 | TPS | SM-liiga | 31 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 52 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 1997-98 | TPS | SM-liiga | 46 | 23 | 14 | 37 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||
| 1998-99 | TPS | SM-liiga | 52 | 19 | 21 | 40 | 103 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 26 | ||
| 1999-2000 | Boston | NHL | 50 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 36 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2000-01 | Boston | NHL | 62 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 38 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2001-02 | Boston | NHL | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2001-02 | Los Angeles | NHL | 71 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 54 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2002-03 | Los Angeles | NHL | 75 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 56 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 2003-04 | TPS | SM-liiga | 54 | 23 | 19 | 42 | 87 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 39 | ||
| 2004-05 | Rapperswil-Jona | SEHV | 44 | 19 | 28 | 47 | 88 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | ||
| 2005-06 | Rapperswil-Jona | SEHV | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
| NHL Totals | 264 | 32 | 44 | 76 | 186 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Links
- Mikko Eloranta at HockeyDB.com
- Mikko Eloranta on nhlfinns.com
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