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HIFK has the highest number of audience in the SM-liiga and is one of the wealthiest sports clubs in Finland. [citation needed] One of the major influences to HIFK was the NHL veteran and Stanley Cup winner Carl Brewer. Hired in 1968 as a playing coach, he advocated a North American style of play which has persisted in HIFK since.
HIFK Fotboll or IFK Helsingfors is the association football section of HIFK, a sports club based in Helsinki, Finland. The men's football team currently competes in the Kolmonen whereas the women's first team is in Naisten Kakkonen.
The Stadin derby, also known as the Helsinki derby (Finnish: Helsingin derby, Swedish: Helsingfors derby), is the name for a Helsinki association football fixture played between HIFK Fotboll and HJK Helsinki.
The regular season started on Tuesday, 12 September 2023, with a match between Rauman Lukko and Hämeenlinnan Pallokerho in Rauma.The match was the only one of the day. As in previous seasons, 450 matches will be played in the regular season, 60 for each team.
The Helsinki Ice Challenge was a series of two ice hockey regular season games (one for the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and one for the SM-liiga respectively) which were scheduled to be played outdoors.
HIFK Bandy ry oversees the men's and women's representative teams, junior teams and bandy school, and recreational bandy programs. Kauko Rautiainen is chairman of HIFK Bandy ry. The men's bandy section of HIFK was created in 1907 and the representative team has won the Finnish Championship seventeen times, more than any other club, and the ...
HJK's main rivals in Helsinki were widely considered to be Kiffen, HPS and HIFK. In the past these were the four big clubs from Helsinki. The clubs were mainly separated by language, HJK and HPS being Finnish speaking clubs whereas HIFK and KIF were Swedish speaking. These four clubs competed also in bandy, ice hockey and handball.
Brian Christopher Rafalski (born September 28, 1973) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman.He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, in the SM-liiga for HPK and HIFK, in the Elitserien for Brynäs IF, and in the ECHL for the Florida Everblades.