Joonas Hallikainen is a Finnish ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 goaltender

Goaltender

In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...

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Hallikainen has played with the 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...

 junior team, and has represented Team Finland in international play. When netminder Pasi Häkkinen

Pasi Häkkinen

Pasi Häkkinen is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender, he currently plays for Dresdner Eislöwen.- Career :...

 left for Denmark after the 2004-2005 season, Hallikainen became the Jokerit #2 goalie in the 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...

. With Tim Thomas

Tim Thomas (ice hockey)

Timothy James Thomas, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey goaltender with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . Raised in Davison, MI, Thomas played college hockey for the University of Vermont for four years, from 1993–1997, during which he was drafted 217th overall by the...

 surprisingly abandoning the team just one day before the regular season opened, Hallikainen had to take on his job with only a day's warning in the first game of the season, a local game versus HIFK

HIFK (ice hockey)

HIFK is an ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland. The team plays at Helsinki Ice Hall. It was founded in 1897...

, with 10,000 fans in attendance. Hallikainen played an excellent game, which Jokerit won in a shootout after overtime. When netminder Karl Goehring

Karl Goehring

Karl Goehring is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender, who is currently an assistant coach with the Syracuse Crunch. He led Apple Valley High School to a win in the 1996 Minnesota State High School League Boys' Hockey Tournament...

 was hurriedly hired to replace Thomas, Hallikainen returned to backup goaltender, and with the arrival of Mikko Rämö

Mikko Rämö

Mikko Rämö is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender.He is not related to fellow ex-Pelicans goaltender Karri Rämö.-Playing career:...

, to games with the Jokerit junior team.

In season 2006/07 Jokerit signed goaltender Juuso Riksman

Juuso Riksman

Juuso Riksman is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender.Riksman played junior hockey in the HIFK organization, but started his pro career with Hermes of Kokkola, then in the 1st division. After a visit to Kiruna in the Swedish 1st division, Riksman returned to HIFK...

 as its number 1, with Hallikainen fighting out the back up spot with youngster Niko Hovinen

Niko Hovinen

Niko Hovinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Pelicans of the SM-liiga.-Jokerit :...

. When Riksman was sidelined with a long-term back injury, Jokerit quickly replaced him with Andy Chiodo

Andy Chiodo

Andy Chiodo is a professional ice hockey goaltender with the Klagenfurt AC of the Erste Bank Hockey League...

, only for him to pick up an injury almost immediately. Jokerit then signed Finnish netminder Ari Ahonen

Ari Ahonen

Ari Pekka Ahonen is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League...

 for the number one spot, with Hallikainen backing him up. When Ahonen was in turn injured, Hallikainen made his season debut in Oulu

Oulu

Oulu is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world....

 against Kärpät

Kärpät

Oulun Kärpät is an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga based in Oulu, Finland. Their logo features a stoat ; "kärpät" is Finnish for stoats or ermines. The team has won five league championships .-History:...

, then leading the league, making 44 saves and allowing only one goal. He followed this up the next day by posting his first career shutout against Ilves

Ilves

Ilves is a Finnish sports club nowadays mostly known for their youth work. The ice hockey team plays in the SM-liiga at the Tampereen jäähalli in Hakametsä...

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Hallikainen represented Finland at the 2007 Winter Universiade

2007 Winter Universiade

The 2007 Winter Universiade, the XXIII Winter Universiade, took place in Turin, Italy from January 17 to January 27, 2007.-Opening ceremony:The Opening Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Universiade Torino 2007 was held with a cast of acrobats, circus performers and dancers.The evening began with the...

 in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, where Finland lost the bronze medal game to come in fourth. http://www.jatkoaika.com/mestis.php?sivu=uutiset&id=6526

Regular season

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	Sv%
2005-06	Jokerit	SM-liiga		5	0	1	1	141.27	11	0	4.67	86.08%
2006-07	Jokerit	SM-liiga		4	4	0	0	240	6	1	1.50	95.04%

International play

Year	Team	Event		GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	Sv%
2007	Finland	Universiade		6	2	3	1	357.30	19	0	3.19	89.01%