# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ossi-vaananen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:31.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ossi-vaananen"
name: "Ossi Väänänen"
slug: "ossi-vaananen"
description: "Ossi Reijo Juhani Väänänen is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was the captain of Jokerit of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), with whom he has previously won two silver medals as runner-up for the Kanada-malja in 2000 and 2005 in the Finnish Liiga. He was originally drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes and has additionally played for the Colorado Avalanche, Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League (NHL)."
tagline: "Finnish ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1980-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             5.413533834586467
  historical:           14.45166
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E8%A5%BF%C2%B7%E9%9F%A6%E5%86%85%E5%AE%81"
    title: "奥西·韦内宁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%89_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اوسى ڤانانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86"
    title: "اوسی وانن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EC%8B%9C_%EB%B0%B0%EB%82%B4%EB%84%A8"
    title: "오시 배내넨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osi_V%C4%93nenens"
    title: "Osi Vēnenens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Вяанянен, Осси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossi_V%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen"
    title: "Ossi Väänänen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%81%D1%96_%D0%92%D1%8F%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Оссі Вяянянен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1269867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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