# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kari-eloranta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:16:44.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kari-eloranta"
name: "Kari Eloranta"
slug: "kari-eloranta"
description: "Kari Pekka Eloranta is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played over 20 years in numerous leagues throughout Europe and North America. Among top-level leagues, he played with Reipas Lahti in the Finnish SM-liiga, Leksands IF, HV71 and Rögle BK in the Swedish Elitserien, the Calgary Flames and St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL) and HC Lugano in Switzerland. He played for HV71 in the 1985–86 season, he was awarded the Guldhjälmen. Eloranta was a frequent member of the Finnish national team. In addition to the Canada Cup and World Championships, he was a three-time Olympian and was a member of Finland's silver medal-winning squad at the 1988 Winter Games."
tagline: "Finnish former ice hockey player"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1956-02-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.74082133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "卡里·埃洛兰塔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارى الورانتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "کاری الورانتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Eloranta"
    title: "Kari Eloranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump