Jarkko Immonen (ice hockey b. 1982)
| Jarkko Immonen | |||
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| Born |
April 19, 1982 Rantasalmi, Finland |
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| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||
| Weight | 212 lb (96 kg; 15 st 2 lb) | ||
| Position | Centre | ||
| Shoots | Right | ||
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Liiga team Former teams |
JYP Jyväskylä Ässät New York Rangers Ak Bars Kazan Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod EV Zug |
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| National team |
 Finland
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| NHL Draft | 254th overall, 2002 Toronto Maple Leafs |
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| Playing career | 1998–present | ||
Jarkko Immonen (born April 19, 1982) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing for JYP Jyväskylä of the Liiga.
Immonen made his debut in Finland’s second-tier league Mestis with TuTo Hockey during the 2000-01 season. For the following year, he joined Ässät of the country’s top-tier Liiga. He then signed with fellow Liiga side JYP Jyväskylä in 2002 and remained three years at the club.
Immonen was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft as their eighth round pick, 254th overall.
On March 3, 2004, Immonen was traded by the Maple Leafs to the New York Rangers as part of the Brian Leetch trade. He made his NHL debut for the Rangers during the 2005-06 season. In the course of his two-year stint with the Rangers, he played a total of 20 games in the NHL and mostly gained playing time in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Hartford Wolf Pack. In his 141 AHL contests played, he scored 54 goals and had 75 assists.
He returned to Finland for the 2007-08 campaign, again joining JYP, where he spent another two years and won the Finnish championship in 2009, before signing with Ak Bars Kazan of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) shortly after. In his first year, he won the championship with Kazan. After four years with Ak Bars, Immonen decided to move on and join fellow KHL team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod for the 2014-15 season.
On March 30, 2015, he agreed to a two-year contract with the EV Zug of the NLA.
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