Saku Salmela

Born on: May 16, 1990
Birth place: Helsinki, Finland
Defenseman, shoots left
5 ' 10" (177 cm) | 185 lb (84 kg)

Championships & Medals

	Age	Year	Team	Event	Tournament Location / Series Result
	27	2018	HIFK Helsinki	Liiga	HIFK Helsinki defeated TPS Turku 3‑2 in the bronze medal game.
Finnish Championship Medals

Rows Seasons		Overall								Goals			per Game			Shots
Season	Team	LGE	Age	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	SOG	SH%
2006‑07	Team Finland U17		16	3	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0	0.0
2010‑11	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	20	18	1	2	3	4	0	0	0	0	0.056	0.111	0.167	44	2.3
2011‑12	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	21	37	10	8	18	16	18	0	0	2	0.270	0.216	0.486	98	10.2
2012‑13	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	22	43	4	5	9	6	2	0	0	0	0.093	0.116	0.209	92	4.3
2013‑14	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	23	56	2	15	17	32	-6	1	0		0.036	0.268	0.304
2014‑15	Ilves Tampere	Liiga	24	56	8	7	15	16	-6	6	0	3	0.143	0.125	0.268	160	5.0
2015‑16	Ilves Tampere	Liiga	25	55	2	15	17	16	0	0	0	0	0.036	0.273	0.309	155	1.3
2016‑17	HIFK Helsinki	Liiga	26	44	4	9	13	18	7	1	0	0	0.091	0.205	0.295	103	3.9
2017‑18	HIFK Helsinki	Liiga	27	57	2	4	6	53	-5	0	0	0	0.035	0.070	0.105	123	1.6
2018‑19	�ss�t Pori	Liiga	28	58	3	9	12	12	-19	2	0	0	0.052	0.155	0.207	97	3.1
2019‑20	�ss�t Pori	Liiga	29	56	2	10	12	22	-5	0	0	0	0.036	0.179	0.214	71	2.8
2020‑21	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	30	2	0	0	0	2	-4	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0	0.0
2021‑22	Kiekko-Espoo	Mestis	31	6	1	2	3	4	-1	1	0	0	0.167	0.333	0.500	17	5.9
2021‑22	Tappara Tampere	Liiga	31	9	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.111	0.111	0.222	16	6.3
2021‑22	KalPa Kuopio	Liiga	31	28	0	7	7	8	-5	0	0	0	0.000	0.250	0.250	82	0.0
2022‑23	KalPa Kuopio	Liiga	32	44	3	7	10	8	7	0	1	0	0.068	0.159	0.227	113	2.7
2023‑24	KalPa Kuopio	Liiga	33	31	3	2	5	10	4	0	0	0	0.097	0.065	0.161	25	12.0
2024‑25	KooKoo Kouvola	Liiga	34	45	2	3	5	10	19	0	0	0	0.044	0.067	0.111	57	3.5
2025‑26	KalPa Kuopio	Liiga	35	14	0	1	1	2	-6	0	0	0	0.000	0.071	0.071	19	0.0
2025‑26	HIFK Helsinki	Liiga	35	27	1	6	7	8	-8	0	0	0	0.037	0.222	0.259	48	2.1
Season	Team	LGE	Age	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	SOG	SH%
	Liiga Totals			524	31	81	112	183	-15	9	1	3	0.059	0.155	0.214	1069	2.9
	Mestis Totals			162	18	32	50	64	9	2	0	2	0.111	0.198	0.309	251

Season	Team	LGE	Age	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	SOG	SH%
2010‑11	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	20	3	0	0	0	27	1	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
2011‑12	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	21	4	1	1	2	6	-3	0	0	0.250	0.250	0.500	9	11.1
2013‑14	Kiekko-Vantaa	Mestis	23	5	2	1	3	2	-6	1		0.400	0.200	0.600
2014‑15	Ilves Tampere	Liiga	24	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0	0.0
2016‑17	HIFK Helsinki	Liiga	26	14	1	1	2	2	1	0	0	0.071	0.071	0.143	32	3.1
2017‑18	HIFK Helsinki	Liiga	27	4	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0.000	0.250	0.250	4	0.0
2022‑23	KalPa Kuopio	Liiga	32	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	4	0.0
2023‑24	KalPa Kuopio	Liiga	33	13	2	2	4	0	4	0	0	0.154	0.154	0.308	20	10.0
2024‑25	KooKoo Kouvola	Liiga	34	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0.250	0.000	0.250	7	14.3
	Liiga Totals			39	4	4	8	4	9	0	0	0.103	0.103	0.205	67	6.0
	Mestis Totals			12	3	2	5	35	-8	1	0	0.250	0.167	0.417	9

Team	Age	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	SOG	SH%
Team Finland - U17 2‑Nations 2007	16	3	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0	0.0
U17 Men Totals		3	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0