Toni Dahlman

Toni Dahlman (born 3 September 1979) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He played 22 games in the National Hockey League with the Ottawa Senators.

Playing career Dahlman began playing hockey in the first division Kiekko-Kissat in the 1996–97 season and moved on to the Jokerit junior team, and eventually to Jokerit for the 1998–99 season. In 2000 Dahlman transferred to Ilves and went on to win the bronze medal and the 2001 Jarmo Wasama memorial trophy as best rookie.

He was drafted by the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL) as their 9th round pick in the 2001 NHL entry draft, 286th overall.

Dahlman played two seasons in North America firstly in 2001–02 with the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League and ten games with the Ottawa Senators. In the 2002–03 season, Dahlman played briefly for Ottawa before returning to the AHL with affiliate, the Binghamton Senators. Over his 22 NHL games, Dahlman only scored one goal and one assist.

Dahlman returned to Finland for the 2003–04 season and represented Ilves in a total of 41 games, scoring 9 goals and 18 assists. He returned to Jokerit for the 2004–05 season, where he scored 16 goals and 7 assists, sharing the top goal scorer spot on his team with Glen Metropolit and Marko Jantunen. Jokerit won the silver medal that season.

On 20 April 2011, Dahlman left the Grizzly Adams after a finals appearance in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, and returned to Austria on a one-year contract to play with Graz.

After a two-year stint in Kazakhstan with Arystan Temirtau and a one-year stint with the VHL's Sputnik Nizhny Tagil, he signed with Ciarko PBS Bank STS Sanok in Poland for the 2015–16 season.

International play

Dahlman represented Finland in the IIHF 1998 under-20's world championships where they won the gold medal. He played in six games and scored two goals.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Regular seasonPlayoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1994–95 Grankulla IFK FIN U16 10 3 2 5 6 — — — — — 1996–97 Karhu–Kissat FIN U18 10 4 5 9 4 — — — — — 1996–97 Karhu–Kissat FIN-2 U20 22 11 18 29 6 — — — — — 1996–97 Karhu–Kissat FIN-3 1 1 0 1 0 — — — — — 1997–98 Jokerit FIN U20 21 13 11 24 14 7 2 2 4 0 1998–99 Jokerit FIN U20 33 10 22 32 6 9 4 3 7 2 1998–99 Jokerit SM-l 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 1999–2000 Jokerit FIN U20 12 6 8 14 4 12 7 7 14 4 1999–2000 Jokerit SM-l 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1999–2000 Hermes FIN-2 23 6 3 9 4 — — — — — 2000–01 Ilves SM-l 56 10 18 28 16 9 3 2 5 2 2001–02 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 50 6 8 14 25 4 0 0 0 0 2001–02 Ottawa Senators NHL 10 0 1 1 0 — — — — — 2002–03 Binghamton Senators AHL 59 6 18 24 14 5 0 0 0 14 2002–03 Ottawa Senators NHL 12 1 0 1 0 — — — — — 2003–04 Ilves SM-l 41 9 18 27 43 7 0 3 3 2 2004–05 Jokerit SM-l 56 16 7 23 43 12 3 2 5 4 2005–06 Jokerit SM-l 54 10 11 21 37 — — — — — 2006–07 Lukko SM-l 53 15 25 40 26 3 0 0 0 0 2007–08 Mora IK SEL 50 8 16 24 14 — — — — — 2008–09 Mora IK Allsv 6 1 2 3 4 — — — — — 2008–09 Kärpät SM-l 26 2 11 13 8 8 0 0 0 0 2009–10 HIFK SM-l 7 1 2 3 2 — — — — — 2009–10 KalPa SM-l 20 3 4 7 4 13 1 1 2 6 2010–11 HK Acroni Jesenice AUT 20 9 12 21 20 — — — — — 2010–11 Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg DEL 12 0 5 5 0 7 0 2 2 0 2011–12 Graz 99ers AUT 46 8 20 28 16 — — — — — 2012–13 Arystan Temirtau KAZ 30 7 17 24 12 13 0 3 3 6 2013–14 Arystan Temirtau KAZ 45 16 29 45 70 15 5 6 11 16 2014–15 Sputnik Nizhny Tagil VHL 44 5 9 14 45 7 1 3 4 4 2015–16 STS Sanok POL 22 4 13 17 12 — — — — — 2015–16 Braehead Clan EIHL 13 1 8 9 0 — — — — — SM-l totals 319 66 96 162 179 55 7 9 16 14 NHL totals 22 1 1 2 0 — — — — —

International Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM 1998 Finland WJC 6 2 0 2 0 Junior totals 6 2 0 2 0

Awards 2001 -Awarded the Jarmo Wasama memorial trophy as the best rookie in the SM-liiga.