Veli-Pekka Pekkarinen

Veli-Pekka-Pekkarinen (born August 24, 1969) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman.

Pekkarinen played most of his career with KalPa, playing a total of 391 games for the team over twelve seasons, including 295 games in the SM-liiga.

Career statistics Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1986–87 KalPa U20 Jr. A I-divisioona 26 9 9 18 20 — — — — — 1986–87 KalPa SM-liiga 3 0 0 0 0 — — — — — 1987–88 KalPa U20 Jr. A I-divisioona 27 15 19 34 32 — — — — — 1987–88 KalPa SM-liiga 18 1 2 3 4 — — — — — 1988–89 KalPa U20 Jr. A SM-sarja 9 1 7 8 10 — — — — — 1988–89 KalPa SM-liiga 11 1 2 3 2 — — — — — 1989–90 KalPa SM-liiga 44 5 3 8 14 6 0 3 3 2 1990–91 KalPa SM-liiga 43 10 8 18 19 6 0 0 0 4 1991–92 KalPa SM-liiga 44 2 16 18 34 — — — — — 1992–93 TUTO Hockey I-Divisioona 44 3 16 19 26 6 1 0 1 2 1993–94 KalPa SM-liiga 39 4 3 7 18 — — — — — 1994–95 KalPa SM-liiga 50 1 8 9 26 3 0 0 0 0 1995–96 KalPa SM-liiga 28 0 2 2 6 — — — — — 1996–97 SiiHT III-divisioona — 4 19 23 — — — — — — 1997–98 KJK II-divisioona 11 3 7 10 8 — — — — — 1998–99 Iisalmen Peli-Karhut II-divisioona 11 1 7 8 6 — — — — — 1999–00 KalPa Suomi-sarja 27 5 14 19 20 — — — — — 2000–01 KalPa Suomi-sarja 29 7 16 23 16 10 3 6 9 2 2002–03 KalPa Mestis 26 7 9 16 6 4 0 1 1 2 SM-liiga totals 280 24 44 68 123 15 0 3 3 6