Kai I. Nurminen is a retired Finnish ice hockey

Ice hockey

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 forward

Forward (ice hockey)

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, who last played with Herlev Hornets

Herlev Hornets

The Herlev IC Hornets are a Danish professional ice hockey team playing in the top Danish ice hockey league AL-Bank Ligaen. The team is located in the Copenhagen suburb of Herlev....

 in the Danish Oddset Ligaen

Oddset Ligaen

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Career

Nurminen started and played most of his ice hockey career with TPS in SM-liiga. He has also played for two seasons in the Swedish

Sweden

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 Elitserien

Elitserien

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. In 1996 he was contracted by Los Angeles Kings

Los Angeles Kings

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 in NHL

National Hockey League

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. After only one season in NHL with 67 matches played (scoring 16 goals and 11 assists) he returned to Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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. In the 2000–01 season, he played two games for the Minnesota Wild

Minnesota Wild

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 and registered one goal.

Nurminen also played for HPK

HPK

HPK is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Hämeenlinna, Finland at the Hämeenlinnan jäähalli. HPK was established in 1929. The full name of the club is HPK-Edustusjääkiekko Ry and the team is sometimes promoted as the "Hockey Playing Knights", with the logo representing a knight...

 and Jokerit

Jokerit

Jokerit is an ice-hockey team from Helsinki, Finland, playing in the Finnish Elite League, SM-liiga. The team has won 6 league championships...

 in SM-liiga; HC Davos

HC Davos

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 in Nationalliga A; and Frölunda HC

Frölunda HC

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 and HV71

HV71

HV71, often referred to as just HV, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping, playing in the Swedish elite league Elitserien...

 in Elitserien.

Nurminen won the Finnish Championship twice. He also won the 1993 European Champions Cup with TPS.

Nurminen scored 7 goals in 12 games in World Championships and 243 goals in SM-Liiga

SM-liiga

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. During the 1999–2000 season he played 64 games and scored 46 goals in SM-Liiga

SM-liiga

The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...

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Nurminen ended his active playing career with the Danish team Herlev Hornets

Herlev Hornets

The Herlev IC Hornets are a Danish professional ice hockey team playing in the top Danish ice hockey league AL-Bank Ligaen. The team is located in the Copenhagen suburb of Herlev....

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