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Hannu Aravirta was born on 26 March, 1953 in Savonlinna, FIN, is a Finnish ice hockey player and coach. Discover Hannu Aravirta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 26 March, 1953
Birthday 26 March
Birthplace Savonlinna, FIN
Nationality Finland

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1953

Hannu Aravirta (born 26 March 1953) is a Finnish ice hockey player and an ice hockey coach for the Finnish national men's team, SM-liiga and Elitserien.

1973

Aravirta was born in Savonlinna, and made his first professional appearance in the 1973–1974 season, playing 35 games for TuTo in the SM-liiga.

1974

In the following season Aravirta played for his hometown team SaPKo in the Suomi-sarja for one season (1974–1975).

Aravirta then headed to Kärpät for a three-season stint.

1976

Kärpät gained promotion from the first division to the SM-liiga after the 1976–1977 season and Aravirta played for the team in the 1977–1978 season.

Aravirta left Oulu and Finland as he went to Södertälje SK to play in Swedish Allsvenskan.

1978

Aravirta stayed in Södertälje for a total of 3 seasons (1978–1980), and then played in Kiruna AIF for 1980–1981, his last season in Sweden.

1981

Aravirta returned to Finland and played for Kärpät for two seasons (1981–1983) before retiring from playing.

1988

Aravirta's first SM-liiga head coaching job was in the 1988–1989 season at JYP.

1989

Aravirta was the head coach of JYP for 5 seasons (1989–1993), winning 2 silver medals, 1 bronze and the Coach of the Year trophy (Kalevi Numminen trophy).

1992

In 1992 Aravirta was hired as assistant coach in Finnish national men's ice hockey team Aravirta's first international success came in the 1994 Winter Olympics where Finland was 3rd, winning its second Olympic medal in ice hockey.

1993

More success came when in 1993 Aravirta was hired as the new head coach for Jokerit.

In his first season at the helm of Jokerit Aravirta won the Finnish Championship.

1994

In the following season (1994–1995) he won silver and at his third season (1995–1996) another Finnish Championship.

Finland also placed 2nd in the 1994 Ice Hockey World Championships, losing to Canada in a shootout.

1995

In 1995 Finland won its first ever World Championship when the Finnish team defeated hosts of the 1995 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament, Sweden 4–1.

Finland lost to Sweden in the Bronze game and the Swedes would avenge their defeat in 1995 (the 2002 tournament was played in Sweden).

1996

After the success of 1996 Aravirta left his position in Jokerit to concentrate in his national team assistant coaching job.

The following World Championships in 1996 and 1997 were disappointments as the Finnish team couldn't qualify for medal games (1997 Ice Hockey World Championships were in Finland).

1997

Sweden won the World Championships and Aravirta took his first medal as the head coach of Finland (Curt Lindström retired after 1997 championships).

Aravirta had a good start as the head coach of team Finland and more was to come.

1998

1998 became a blockbuster season for Finnish ice hockey.

First the Finns defeated Canada in the 1998 Winter Olympics to win their third Olympic medal, again a bronze one.

1998 Ice Hockey World Championships featured Finland going against Sweden in the two game finals.

Finland lost the first final game 1–0 and the second game was a 0–0 tie.

1999

in 1999 Finland was yet again in the finals but this time the Czech Republic won.

2000

The 2000 tournament was a step backwards; the Finnish team was beaten by Slovakia in the semifinals so Finland was to face Canada in the bronze game.

Finland won the tight game 2–1 and got its first bronze medal in the World Championships.

2001

The 2001 World Championship tournament was Aravirta's last tournament in medals.

Finland fought its way to the Finals and faced off with the Czech Republic.

Finland led the game 2–0 but ended up losing 2–3 in overtime.

2002

The 2002 Olympic tournament saw the Finnish team lose to Canada in the quarterfinals 2-1 and the 2002 World Championships didn't have a better ending for Finns.

2003

Aravirta returned to the SM-liiga for the 2003–2004 season when he was hired to coach former Helsinki rivals HIFK.

Aravirta's first season was good as HIFK won bronze but his second season however was to be different.

The 2003 Ice Hockey World Championships marked the last tournament for Hannu Aravirta as the head coach of team Finland.

2005

Aravirta was fired during the 2005 SM-liiga playoffs after very poor play from HIFK.

2006

Aravirta made his third return to SM-liiga in 2006 when he replaced Jami Kauppi as the head coach of Pelicans(whom he has lifted from a team constantly fighting among the bottom teams to a force to be reckoned with. In the 2007–2008 season, Pelicans led the league for the greater part of the year).

During his 10-season SM-liiga coaching career Aravirta has won 2 championships, 3 silver medals and 2 bronze medals.

2010

In January 2010, Aravirta signed on for Modo Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien.

His contract was not extended after the season, and he signed with Kärpät in November 2010.