Riikka Noronen

Riikka Noronen is a Finnish ice hockey forward and captain of HPK Kiekkonaiset of the Naisten Liiga. She is the all-time leading point scorer in the Naisten Liiga.[1]

Riikka Noronen
Born (1982-11-23) November 23, 1982
Jyväskylä, Finland
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
NLiiga team
Former teams		 HPK Kiekkonaiset
Ilves Naiset
JYP Jyväskylä
Tappara
National team  Finland
Playing career 1995–present

Career

Noronen began playing in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) with JyP HT when she was 12 years old.[2]

As of the conclusion of the 2019–20 season, Noronen has scored 730 points (313 goals + 417 assists) in 596 Naisten Liiga regular season games and her career has spanned 25 seasons. She has played with four clubs: JYP Jyväskylä[lower-alpha 1] during 1995–2001 and 2004–2009; Tampereen Ilves Naiset during 2000–01, 2002–2004, and 2017–2019; Tappara during 2001–02; and HPK Kiekkonaiset during 2008–2017 and from 2019 to the present. She has won the Finnish Championship three times: in 1997 with JyP HT, in 1998 with JYP, and in 2011 with HPK. As the 2011 Finnish Champions, HPK was the first team to be awarded the Aurora Borealis Cup.[3] Noronen served as HPK captain between 2013 and 2017, until her return to Ilves. Upon her return to HPK, in 2019, she resumed the captaincy.[4]

Noronen tied the league points record of 702 points, set by Linda Leppänen, on 19 October 2019 in an HPK match against Kiekko-Espoo. The following day, she broke the record, scoring a goal and tallying two assists in a match against Vaasan Sport Naiset, and claimed sole possession of the Naisten Liiga scoring title.[5]

International

Noronen was on the roster of the Finnish national under-22 team during 2001 to 2003.[6] She played international matches with the Finnish national team (Naisleijonat) in 2010 and 2013.

References
  1. The representative women's team of JYP was called JyP HT during 1995–1997, Jyväskylä Hockey Cats (JyHC) during 2000–2004, and Cats Jyväskylä during 2004–2009
  1. "Riikka Noronen teki mykistävää historiaa Naisten Liigassa" (in Finnish). Yle. 2019-10-21. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  2. Muttilainen, Kimmo (2018-12-18). "Riikka Noronen on jääkiekon tuntematon tähti, joka aloitti liigassa vain 12-vuotiaana – kaikkien aikojen pistelinko on kelvannut harvoin Leijona-paitaan" (in Finnish). Yle. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  3. Foster, Meredith (2019-10-30). "Q&A with HPK's Riikka Noronen". The Ice Garden. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  4. Teiskonlahti, Kirsi (2019-05-09). "Yli 20 vuotta naisten jääkiekon pääsarjatasolla pelannut Noronen palaa HPK:n paitaan" (in Finnish). Yle. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  5. Mennander, Pasi (2019-10-21). "Nämä maalit nostivat Riikka Norosen Naisten Liigan kaikkien aikojen pistepörssin kärkeen". leijonat.fi (in Finnish). Finnish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  6. Hänninen, Hannu (2001-01-29). "jääkiekkoilu Suomen naisten maajoukkue..." (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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