Terhi Mertanen

Terhi Eveliina Mertanen (born 4 April 1981) is a Finnish retired ice hockey defenceman and current head coach of TPS Naiset in the Naisten Liiga. She was a member of the Finnish national ice hockey team for thirteen seasons and won bronze medals in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics and at the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2004 and 2011.

Playing career Mertanen developed in the youth system of Jokipojat in her hometown of Joensuu, North Karelia, in western Finland. She played fourteen seasons in the Naisten SM-sarja (renamed Naisten Liiga in 2017) with KalPa Kuopio, Kärpät Oulu, and the Espoo Blues. With the Blues, she was a four-time Finnish Champion (2002, 2009, 2013, and 2015) and medaled at three IIHF European Women's Champions Cups, winning bronze in 2009 and 2015 and silver in 2010.

Outside of Finland, Mertanen played in the Leistungsklasse A (LKA/LNA) with the ZSC Lions Frauen, the women's team of the ZSC Lions, during the 2011 playoffs and for the entirety of the 2011–12 season. With ZSC she won a silver medal at the 2012 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup.

Career statistics

International Year Team Event Result GP G A Pts PIM 2001 Finland WW 4th 5 0 2 2 6 2002 Finland OG 4th 5 0 1 1 2 2004 Finland WW 5 2 1 3 2 2005 Finland WW 4th 5 1 1 2 2 2006 Finland OG 4th 5 0 0 0 6 2010 Finland OG 5 0 0 0 6 2011 Finland WW 6 0 0 0 4 2012 Finland WW 4th 6 0 3 3 0 Totals 42 3 8 11 28 Sources: