Tiina Paananen
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1972)
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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.[1]
| Tiina Paananen | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
5 July 1972 Jyväskylä, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre | |||||||||||||||||||
| Shot | Right | |||||||||||||||||||
| Played for |
Jyväskylän Hockey Cats JYP Jyväskylä KalPa Kuopio | |||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Finland | |||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1992–2002 | |||||||||||||||||||
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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.[2]
