Espoon Oilers
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Espoon Oilers is a floorball
Floorball
Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...

 team from Espoo
Espoo
Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....

, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It was founded in 1990. If measured with number of licenced players it is the third largest floorball team in Finland. Team has both men and women teams playing in the highest national level Salibandyliiga
Salibandyliiga
The Salibandyliiga is the top floorball league in the country of Finland. There are men's and women's divisions, and the winner at the end of each season is presented with a national championship. The league was founded in 1986, but has only been referred to as the salibandyliiga since 1994...

 on season 2009–2010. Oilers also have junior teams in boys and girls. Boys have teams in all age groups and girls from B to E.
Their home venue is Tapiolan urheiluhalli.

Men

Oilers has won 4 Salibandyliiga championships, on seasons 1998-99, 2001–02, 2002–03 and 2005–06 and two Finnish Cups.

Lineup for season 2008-2009


Goalies:
  • 1 Henri Korhola
  • 39 Tuomas Ruippo
  • 71 Olli Saranto
  • 81 Mikko Alanko


Defenders:
  • 3 Henri Uronen
  • 8 Janne Karisto
  • 10 Patrick Wardi (A)
  • 11 Otto Heikurainen
  • 18 Tarmo Kirjonen (A)
  • 20 Sami Huvinen
  • 22 Robin Nyberg
  • 31 Jouni Vehkaoja (C)
  • 33 Mika Kavekari (A)
 
Forwards:
  • 4 Henri Vanonen
  • 16 Jussi Piha
  • 17 Jens Riska
  • 21 Joni Niiranen
  • 23 Oscar Hänninen
  • 26 Markus Holmborg
  • 28 Jussi Järvinen
  • 38 Samu Rännäli
  • 48 Niko Nieminen
  • 50 Casper Pfitzner
  • 77 Petri Jalanko
  • 97 Lasse Riitesuo
  • 98 Oliver Wardi

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