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Tappara
Tappara
City	Tampere, Finland
League	SM-liiga
Founded	1955
Home arena	Tampereen jäähalli (capacity 7,800)
Colors
General manager	Mikko Leinonen
Head coach	Mikko Saarinen
Captain	Janne Ojanen
	Website; http://www.tappara.fi

Tappara ("battleaxe") is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Tampere, Finland at Tampereen jäähalli. The team have won 15 league championships (1953, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 2003).

[edit] Team History

Established in 1955, Tappara was a reformation of the club TBK, an abbreviation of Tammerfors Bollklubb. Today, the full name of the company that owns the club is Tamhockey Oy. Among the most successful teams in Finland, the team has won the Finnish Championship 12 times (and predecessor TBK three times). Tappara is the second most successful team in Finnish ice hockey history, inferior only to its arch-rival Ilves (16 championships).

Their goal song is "Life is Life" by Opus.

[edit] Current squad

(As of 13 June 2009)

Goaltenders
Number	Player	Shoots	Contract	Place of birth
34	Mika Lehto	L	2010	Vammala, Finland
50	Harri Säteri	L	2011	Toijala, Finland

Defenders
Number	Player	Shoots	Contract	Place of birth
4	Miko Malkamäki	L	2011	Kokkola, Finland
10	Pekka Saravo	L	2015	Tampere, Finland
15	Jussi Halme	L	2011	Nokia, Finland
16	Jesse Turkulainen	L	2010+1	Stockholm, Sweden
18	Tuukka Mäntylä	L	2019	Tampere, Finland
52	Lasse Korhonen	R	2011	Helsinki, Finland
77	Harri Ilvonen	L	2010	Rauma, Finland
82	Atte Pentikäinen	L	2010	Juupajoki, Finland

Forwards
Number	Player	Shoots	Position	Contract	Place of birth
11	Timo Koskela	L	LW	2010	Tampere, Finland
14	Nestori Lähde	L	RW	2011	Kangasala, Finland
21	Jori Lehterä	L	C	2010	Helsinki, Finland
26	Kim Strömberg	L	W	2011	Helsinki, Finland
26	Jonas Enlund	L	C	2010	Helsinki, Finland
30	Ville Nieminen	L	LW	2010	Tampere, Finland
44	Sami Ryhänen	L	C	2011	Halikko, Finland
71	Antti Kangasniemi	L	C	2011	Tampere, Finland
73	Niclas Lucenius	L	LW	2010	Turku, Finland
81	Jukka Peltola	L	LW	2012	Tampere, Finland
87	Tomi Peltonen	L	W	2010	Tampere, Finland
--	Martin Tuominen	L		2010+2	Loimaa, Finland