SM-liiga club Ilves fires coach (23 Jan 2013)
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Raimo Helminen
Раймо Хелминен
- Position: center
- Player status: coach
- Gender: male
- Nationality: Finland
- Birth date: 11.03.1964 (61 years)
- Birth place: Tampere, Finland
- Height: 183 cm / 6' 0"
- Weight: 88 kg / 194 lbs
- Shoots: left
- Draft 1: New York Rangers, year: 1984, round: 2, position: 35
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- Trivia:
Best Player (’64 Training Camp in 1979)
Top scorer with a new record (WJC 84)
Best Player of Team Finland with Esa Tikkanen and Myllys (WJC 84)
All Star Team (WJC 84; SM-liiga 87-88, 96-97, 97-98, 98-99)
Most assists (Elitserien 92-93)
Most points (Elitserien 93-94)
The first foreign player to be the top scorer of Elitserien (93-94)
Best Player (SM-liiga 97-98)
All-time top scorer of Team Finland
President’s Trophy (2001)
Golden Stick (2002)
Has played in six Olympic Games and over 320 international games (both world records)
NHL (NYR, MIN, NYI): 117 (13+46 16) [PO: 2 (0+0) 0]Inducted into IIHF Hall of Fame 2012 in players category
Coach stats
| Season | Team | League | Pos | LPos | W | L | D | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | SaiPa | Liiga | Head Coach | |||||
| 2023-24 |  B. Bystrica | Extraliga (SVK) | Head Coach | 6. | 21 | 22 | 7 | |
| Leavel reached: lost PO quarterfinals | ||||||||
| 2022-23 | Ilves Tampere | Liiga | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2021-22 |  Val Pusteria | ICE Hockey League | Head Coach | 5. | 20 | 17 | 12 | |
| Leavel reached: lost PO quarterfinals | Hired: 15.11.2021 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 | TPS Turku | Liiga (Play-off) | Head Coach | |||||
| Leavel reached: silver | ||||||||
| 2020-21 | TPS Turku | Liiga | Head Coach | |||||
| 2019-20 | Finland | Euro Hockey Tour | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2019-20 | Finland | WJC (U20) | Head Coach | 4. | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2018-19 | Jokerit | KHL | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2017-18 | Jokerit | KHL | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2015-16 |  Dinamo Riga | KHL | Assistant Coach | |||||
| Hired: 1.10.2015 | Left: 07.01.2016 | Reason of leaving: fired | ||||||||
| 2015-16 |  Barys Astana | KHL | Assistant Coach | |||||
| Left: 23.9.2015 | Reason of leaving: fired | ||||||||
| 2013-14 | Kazakhstan | World Championship | Assistant Coach | 16. | ||||
| Leavel reached: relegated | ||||||||
| 2013-14 | Barys Astana | KHL | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2012-13 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga (Play-out) | Head Coach | |||||
| 2012-13 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga | Head Coach | |||||
| Left: 23.01.2013 | Reason of leaving: Fired | ||||||||
| 2011-12 | Finland | WJC (U20) | Head Coach | |||||
| 2011-12 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga | Head Coach | |||||
| 2010-11 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2010-11 | Finland | WJC (U20) | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2009-10 | Finland | WJC (U20) | Assistant Coach | |||||
| 2009-10 | Ilves Tampere | SM-liiga | Assistant Coach | |||||
| Hired: 09.03.2010 | ||||||||
Player national stats
| Season | Team | League | # | GP | G | A | P | PIM | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | Finland | WLHL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2007-08 | Finland | Euro Hockey Tour | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2001-02 | Finland | World Championship | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | -1 | |
| 2001-02 | Finland | Olympics | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2000-01 | Finland | World Championship | 9 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1999-00 | Finland | World Championship | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | -3 |
| 1998-99 | Finland | World Championship | 12 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | -2 | |
| 1997-98 | Finland | World Championship | 10 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1997-98 | Finland | Olympics | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | |
| 1996-97 | Finland | World Championship | 8 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | -1 | |
| 1995-96 | Finland | World Cup of Hockey | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1995-96 | Finland | World Championship | 6 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1994-95 | Finland | World Championship | 8 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 11 | |
| 1993-94 | Finland | World Championship | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 10 | |
| 1993-94 | Finland | Olympics | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | |
| 1991-92 | Finland | Olympics | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | -2 | |
| 1989-90 | Finland | World Championship | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |
| 1987-88 | Finland | Olympics | 7 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1986-87 | Finland | Canada Cup | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 1984-85 | Finland | World Championship | 10 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1983-84 | Finland | Olympics | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| 1983-84 | Finland | WJC (U20) | 7 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 4 | ||
| 1982-83 | Finland | WJC (U20) | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1981-82 | Finland | EJC (U18) |
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