For Finns, the sauna is sacred. “It’s where children were baptized, and the dead washed for burial,” Alexander Lembke, our ...

From its opening in 1997 until March 2022, the building then known as Hartwall Arena hosted four IIHF World Championships, two World Junior Championships, three games in the 2004 World Cup of Hockey ...

He has won a Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal, an IIHF World Championship, a national championship in Switzerland and a Champions Hockey League title. Winning the Mestis, Finland’s second-tier ...

HELSINKI, Finland — When Esa Lindell shuffled to center ice in his sneakers to drop the puck at Jokerit’s game Tuesday night, there were glaring changes from when the Dallas Stars defenseman donned a ...

HELSINKI-- To hear Esa Lindell tell it, there was no choice. The Dallas Stars defenseman says he had to help Jokerit, a legendary hockey club in Finland that has fallen on hard times. That’s not ...

HELSINKI --Valtteri Filppula doesn’t want to hear the comparisons to Jaromir Jagr. Take that fantasy somewhere else, he says. “That hasn’t happened once in my career, to feel like him,” Filppula said.

It’s been 16 years since the Detroit Red Wings’ most recent Stanley Cup, and one player from that team continues playing professionally. Valtteri Filppula, 40, will play for Helsinki Jokerit in his ...

It was widely expected and now it’s official: Valtteri Filppula is going home. After 19 years abroad in the NHL and Switzerland, the 40-year-old Finn is returning to Jokerit Helsinki, the club where ...

Former Detroit Red Wings forward Valtteri Filppula is actually doing what so many players over the years have suggested they’d be willing to do. He’s going to be playing the game for free. At a media ...

HELSINKI — Russian President Vladimir Putin is a former spy well known for starting wars with his neighbors. His expansionist dreams have also extended to his favorite sport. In 2013, three Russian ...

Two of the KHL's non-Russian teams will not be returning for the 2022-23 season. Jokerit Helsinki confirmed Tuesday that it had withdrawn from the league, joining Dynamo Riga, which made the ...