Kari Heikkilä

Kari Heikkilä (born 10 January 1960) is a Finnish former ice hockey player and coach.

Kari Heikkilä
Born	(1960-01-10) 10 January 1960 Kangasala, Finland
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb)
Position	Defense
Shot	Left
Played for	Calgary Wranglers Victoria Cougars Luleå HF Vita Hästen Ilves HC Fassa
Coached for	IF Sundsvall Hockey Bodens IK HPK Vaasan Sport Oulun Kärpät Espoo Blues Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Metallurg Magnitogorsk Dinamo Minsk Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Dinamo Riga Ilves Lukko Saryarka Karaganda
Playing career	c. 1978–1994
Coaching career	1994–2019

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He played majority of his career in Ilves, but had also stints in Sweden (HC Vita Hästen and Luleå HF) and in Italy, where he ended his career in 1994.

After that he started coaching. In SM-liiga he has coached HPK in autumn 1997 before being sacked, as well as Kärpät in 2001-04 and Blues in 2005-07. He won the championship with Kärpät in 2004 and got silver medal the year before.

He has also coached Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in Russia, with major success. In 2005 he coached them to bronze, in 2008 and 2009 to silver. On August 16, 2010 Kari Heikkilä signed three-year contract with the Belarusian Ice Hockey Association.

References

• Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database