Jussi Rynnäs is an 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...

 goalie who is in the Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs

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 system. In 2009, he played for Ässät

Ässät

Ässät is an ice hockey team in the Finnish elite league, SM-liiga. They play in Pori, Finland at the Porin jäähalli.-Team history:...

 of 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...

He had the top save percentage (.929) during the 2009-10 season while playing for Ässat in Finland. In 31 games that past season, he posted a goals against average of 2.50, which can be considered good, as his team placed second-last in the Finnish league.

Brian Burke, president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs has agreed on the terms with free agent goalie to a 2 year entry-level contract . He is expected to begin the 2010-2011 season with the Toronto Marlies

Toronto Marlies

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 in the AHL.

Career

As a younger player, Rynnäs was never considered a prime talent and was, for example, never drafted in the NHL. After becoming over-aged to play in the Ässät Junior team, Rynnäs had serious trouble in finding himself a team, ending up in the Finnish 3rd division.

However, Ässät signed him for the 2009-2010 season and, after impressive performances in the pre-season games, Rynnäs got more and more responsibility and ended up becoming Ässät's number one goalkeeper and a fan favourite. In the end of the season, several NHL teams showed interest, and Rynnäs chose Toronto.

Statistics

				Regular Season										Playoffs									Awards
Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	T	MIN	PM	SO	GAA	SV%		GP	W	L	MIN	PM	SO	GAA	SV%
2009-10	Ässät	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...		31	14	13	1	1658	69	2 (3)	2.50	92.92		--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--

Rynnäs played also a third shut-out game in the 2009-2010 season against JYP. As he missed one second from a full game (playing 59:59), the Finnish league statistics system does not count the game as a shutout.