Joonas Hallikainen
Joonas Hallikainen (born October 5, 1985 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender.
Hallikainen has played with the Jokerit junior team, and has represented Team Finland in international play. When netminder Pasi Häkkinen left for Denmark after the 2004-2005 season, Hallikainen became the Jokerit #2 goalie in the SM-liiga. With Tim Thomas surprisingly abandoning the team just one day before the regular season opened, Hallikainen had to take on his job with only a day's warning in the first game of the season, a local game versus HIFK, with 10,000 fans in attendance. Hallikainen played an excellent game, which Jokerit won in a shootout after overtime. When netminder Karl Goehring was hurriedly hired to replace Thomas, Hallikainen returned to backup goaltender, and with the arrival of Mikko Rämö, to games with the Jokerit junior team.
Hallikainen will represent Finland at the 2007 Winter Universiade in Turin. [1]
Career statistics
Regular season
Season | Team | League | GP | W | L | T | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | Sv% |
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2005-06 | Jokerit | SM-liiga | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 141.27 | 11 | 0 | 4.67 | 86.08% |