Vesa Ruotsalainen

Born on: April 13, 1966
Birth place: Imatra, Finland
Defenseman, shoots left
5 ' 11" (180 cm) | 192 lb (87 kg)

Championships & Medals

	Age	Year	Team	Event	Tournament Location / Series Result
	24	1991	KalPa Kuopio	SM-Liiga	TPS Turku defeated KalPa Kuopio 4‑1 in a best of seven gold medal series.
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%
1982‑83	Ketterä Imatra	I-divisioona	16	19	3	3	6	24					0.158	0.158	0.316
1983‑84	Ketterä Imatra	I-divisioona	17	28	1	1	2	26	-11				0.036	0.036	0.071
1984‑85	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	18	34	3	1	4	51	-18	1	0	0	0.088	0.029	0.118
1984‑85	Team Finland U20		18	7	0	0	0	2					0.000	0.000	0.000
1985‑86	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	19	31	1	2	3	28	-17	0	0	0	0.032	0.065	0.097
1985‑86	Team Finland U20		19	7	0	2	2	14					0.000	0.286	0.286
1986‑87	SaiPa Lappeenranta	I-divisioona	20	38	5	1	6	58	0				0.132	0.026	0.158
1987‑88	SaiPa Lappeenranta	I-divisioona	21	44	6	9	15	47	7				0.136	0.205	0.341
1988‑89	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	22	44	11	15	26	28	-11	2	0	1	0.250	0.341	0.591
1989‑90	KooKoo Kouvola	SM-Liiga	23	34	4	5	9	18	-15	1	0	0	0.118	0.147	0.265
1990‑91	KalPa Kuopio	SM-Liiga	24	34	5	7	12	14	2	0	0	0	0.147	0.206	0.353
1991‑92	KalPa Kuopio	SM-Liiga	25	43	5	4	9	38	-24	0	0	0	0.116	0.093	0.209
1992‑93	KalPa Kuopio	SM-Liiga	26	42	1	3	4	40	-2	0	0	0	0.024	0.071	0.095
1993‑94	KalPa Kuopio	SM-Liiga	27	44	1	2	3	30	-20	0	0	0	0.023	0.045	0.068
1994‑95	SaiPa Lappeenranta	Fazer-liiga	28	43	12	23	35	72	30				0.279	0.535	0.814
1995‑96	SaiPa Lappeenranta	Fazer-liiga	29	41	9	16	25	80	24				0.220	0.390	0.610
1996‑97	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	30	47	1	8	9	66	-17	0	0	0	0.021	0.170	0.191
1997‑98	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	31	48	4	1	5	52	-1	0	0	0	0.083	0.021	0.104
1998‑99	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	32	49	1	4	5	75	-4	1	0	0	0.020	0.082	0.102
1999‑00	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	33	10	0	0	0	10	-2	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	19	0.0
Season	Team	LGE	Age	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP	SOG	SH%
	Liiga Totals			460	37	52	89	450	-129	5	0	1	0.080	0.113	0.193	19
	Mestis Totals			213	36	53	89	307	50				0.169	0.249	0.418

Season	Team	LGE	Age	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP
1990‑91	KalPa Kuopio	SM-Liiga	24	8	0	0	0	6	-8	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
1994‑95	Saipa Lappeenranta	Fazer-liiga	28	3	1	1	2	4	1				0.333	0.333	0.667
1995‑96	SaiPa Lappeenranta	Fazer-liiga	29	5	1	3	4	31	7				0.200	0.600	0.800
1997‑98	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	31	3	0	0	0	4	-2	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
1998‑99	SaiPa Lappeenranta	SM-Liiga	32	6	1	0	1	4	-2	0	0	0	0.167	0.000	0.167
	Liiga Totals			17	1	0	1	14	-12	0	0	0	0.059	0.000	0.059
	Mestis Totals			8	2	4	6	35	8				0.250	0.500	0.750

Team	Age	GP	A	P	PIM	A/GP	P/GP
Team Finland - U20 World Championship 1985	18	7	0	0	2	0.000	0.000
Team Finland - U20 World Championship 1986	19	7	2	2	14	0.286	0.286
U20 World Championship Totals		14	2	2	16	0.143	0.143