Tiina Paananen

Finnish ice hockey player
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Quick Facts

IntroFinnish ice hockey player
PlacesFinland
isAthlete Ice hockey player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth5 July 1972, Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Western and Central Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
Age52 years
Star signCancer
The details

Biography

Tiina O. Paananen (born 5 July 1972) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player. She was a member of the Finnish women's national ice hockey teams that won bronze medals at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 1997 and 1999.

Paananen played nine seasons in the Naisten SM-sarja with Kalevan Pallo Naiset (KalPa; 1993–1996), JyP HT Naiset and JYP Jyväskylä Naiset (1996–2000), and the Jyväskylän Hockey Cats (JyHC; 2000–2002). She won the Finnish Championship twice, first with JyP HT in 1997 and again in 1998, after the team was renamed JYP. Throughout her SM-sarja career, Paananen tallied 130 goals and 237 points in 176 regular season games, averaging a blistering 1.35 points per game across nearly a decade of play.

Career statistics

International

YearTeamEventResult GPGAPtsPIM
1997FinlandWW52020
1999FinlandWW50110
Totals102130
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