Jere Lehtinen #26
name pronnounced- 'year-a' and don't try to do anything weird with the 'h' just say it like 'let')
6-0; 190; left wing
June 24, 1973; Espoo, Finland
drafted in the fourth round, 88th overall in 1992 by the Minnesota North Stars
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nicknames: Jari (after Finnish Hall-of-Famer Jari Kurri), Foxy Finn
you need to know: wife Jaana and twin daughters Anna and Sofia.
won the Selke Trophy for best defensive forward (97-98, 98-99 )
uses a wooden stick consistently (one of few NHLers to do so)
what's cool couldn't attend ceremony for the Selke award (98) because he was getting married in Finland(wife's name is Janna)
almost never throws a punch even though he's always getting knocked around (can we get a Lady Byng Trophy for this boy?)
is Finnish!
is from the same town as Teemu Selanne (Espoo, Finland)
played on team Finland  in Nagano Olympics which took the bronze defeating their rivals the Swedes
yell: "Ay ay ay, Foxy Finn!"

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