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{{Short description|Finnish ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = Jarkko Ruutu 2013 1.jpg
| caption = Ruutu playing for [[Jokerit]], 2013
| played_for = [[HIFK (ice hockey)|HIFK]]<br/>[[Vancouver Canucks]]<br/>[[Pittsburgh Penguins]]<br/>[[Ottawa Senators]]<br/>[[Anaheim Ducks]]<br/>[[Jokerit]]<br/>[[EHC Biel]]
| position = [[Winger (ice hockey)|Right Wing]]
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 1
| weight_lb = 204
| ntl_team = FIN
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|8|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Vantaa]], Finland
| draft = 68th overall
| draft_year = 1998
| draft_team = [[Vancouver Canucks]]
| career_start = 1996
| career_end = 2014
}}
'''Jarkko Samuli Ruutu''' ({{IPA|fi|ˈjɑrk:o 'sɑmuli ˈruːtu}}); born 23 August 1975) is a [[Finnish people|Finnish]] former professional [[ice hockey]] [[Forward (ice hockey)|forward]] who played in the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) with the [[Vancouver Canucks]], [[Pittsburgh Penguins]], [[Ottawa Senators]] and [[Anaheim Ducks]]. He is currently serving as a European development coach for the [[Columbus Blue Jackets]].

== Playing career ==
[[File:Ruutu Jarkko.jpg|thumb|left|Ruutu playing for the Ottawa Senators, 2009]]
Ruutu initially moved to North America to play [[college hockey]] with [[Michigan Tech]] of the [[Western Collegiate Hockey Association]] (WCHA). However, after his first year, he returned to Finland and turned professional with [[HIFK (ice hockey)|HIFK]] of the [[Liiga|SM-liiga]] in 1996–97. In his draft year, he recorded 20 points in 37 games and was then drafted by the [[Vancouver Canucks]] in the third round, 68th overall, in the [[1998 NHL Entry Draft]]. He played one more season with HIFK before moving back to North America to play for the Canucks' [[American Hockey League]] (AHL) affiliate at the time, the [[Syracuse Crunch]].

Ruutu played his first full season with the Canucks in [[2001–02 NHL season|2001–02]] and earned himself a reputation as one of the NHL's most effective [[Pest (hockey)|"pests"]] or "agitators". During the [[2004–05 NHL lockout]], he returned to play for HIFK and set a SM-liiga record for [[penalty minutes]] in a single season with 215 (since broken by [[Matt Nickerson]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.satakunnankansa.fi/blogit/kiekkokansa/2007/10/kulttikuningasta_odotellessa.html |title=Kiekko-Kansa: Kulttikuningasta odotellessa |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214030119/http://www2.satakunnankansa.fi/blogit/kiekkokansa/2007/10/kulttikuningasta_odotellessa.html |archive-date=14 February 2009 |language=fi}}</ref>

Ruutu had his best NHL season to date statistically in the [[2005–06 NHL season|2005–06 season]], scoring 10 goals and 7 assists for 17 points in 82 games, while amassing 142 penalty minutes with the Canucks. In the off-season, Ruutu became a free agent on 1 July 2006, and signed with the [[Pittsburgh Penguins]]. He recorded his first three-point game in NHL during his second season with the Penguins on 27 March 2008, against the [[New York Islanders]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Crosby returns; Penguins handle Islanders, take over first in East |url=http://cbs.sportsline.com/nhl/gamecenter/recap/NHL_20080327_NYI@PIT |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708062050/http://cbs.sportsline.com/nhl/gamecenter/recap/NHL_20080327_NYI@PIT |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2012 |work=[[CBS Sports]] |date=27 March 2008|access-date=27 March 2008 }}</ref>

In July 2008, Ruutu signed with the [[Ottawa Senators]] to a three-year, $3.9&nbsp;million contract. On 13 November 3, 2008, he was suspended two games for elbowing [[Maxim Lapierre]] in the head two days earlier in a game against the [[Montreal Canadiens]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Elbow smash earns Ruutu two-game ban|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081113.RUUTU13/TPStory/Sports|archive-url=https://archive.today/20090213233737/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081113.RUUTU13/TPStory/Sports|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 February 2009|access-date=14 November 2008|date=13 November 2008|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]}}</ref>

In a game on 6 January 2009, Ruutu allegedly bit the gloved thumb of [[Buffalo Sabres]]' enforcer [[Andrew Peters]] during a first-period altercation, although he denied this in a post-game interview and claimed Peters had actually gouged his eye and stuck his fingers into Ruutu's mouth. The next day, he was suspended for two games and fined $31,700 by the NHL for the incident.<ref>{{cite news|title=Peters backs NHL's punishment of Ruutu for biting incident|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/nhl/2009-01-06-sabres-senators_N.htm?csp=34|access-date=7 January 2009|date=7 January 2009|newspaper=[[USA Today]]}}</ref>

On 17 February 2011, Ruutu was traded to the [[Anaheim Ducks]] in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2011. In his final season in the NHL, Ruutu played out remainder of his contract with the Ducks, appearing in 23 games for a goal and assist.

After his NHL career, Ruutu returned to the SM-Liiga to play for [[Jokerit]] on a three-year contract. His contract was not renewed after Jokerit left SM-Liiga to join the [[Kontinental Hockey League]] (KHL) in 2014. He completed his professional career playing four games with [[EHC Biel]] in the Swiss [[National League (ice hockey)|National League A]] (NLA) during the [[2014–15 NLA season|2014–15 season]] before announcing his retirement as a player on 15 December 2014.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=9251&cHash=ad1dfc6e013e218de18ff0853a529c62 | title = Jarkko Ruutu retires | publisher = [[International Ice Hockey Federation]] | date = 15 December 2014 | access-date = 15 December 2014}}</ref>

==International play==
{{MedalTableTop| name = }}
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Ice hockey at the Winter Olympics|ice hockey]]}}
{{MedalCountry |   {{FIN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2006 Winter Olympics|2006]] | [[Turin]] }}
{{MedalBronze| [[2010 Winter Olympics|2010]] |[[Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|Vancouver]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Ice Hockey Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1998 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|1998]] | [[Switzerland]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2001 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2001]] | [[Germany]] }}
{{MedalSilver | [[2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2007]] | [[Russia]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2006]] | [[Latvia]] }}
{{MedalBottom}}
Ruutu has appeared in six [[World Ice Hockey Championships|World Championships]] with [[Finland national men's ice hockey team|Finland]] and has won silver medals in [[1998 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|1998]], [[2001 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2001]] and [[2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2007]] and a bronze medal in [[2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships|2006]].

At the [[2004 World Cup of Hockey|2004 World Cup]], Ruutu helped Finland to a second-place finish, losing the championship game to [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Canada]].

Ruutu also won a silver medal with Finland at the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in [[Turin]]. He gained notoriety during the tournament when he checked [[Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team|Czech]] winger [[Jaromír Jágr]] to the boards while Jágr was crouching.

== Personal==
Ruutu is married to Sofia Ruutu (née Morelius), a Finnish model and blogger. The couple have two children and live in [[Töölö]], [[Helsinki]]. His younger brother, [[Tuomo Ruutu]], also played in the NHL, appearing in more than 700 games, and was mostly recently active with [[HC Davos]] in the Swiss NLA. His other brother, retired player [[Mikko Ruutu]], is currently a scout for the [[Ottawa Senators]]. Jarkko Ruutu is also a second cousin of [[Hanno Möttölä]], who became the first Finnish [[basketball]] player to play in the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA). Ruutu's cousin, Raul Ruutu, plays bass in Finnish pop rock band [[Sunrise Avenue]].

==Career statistics==
===Regular season and playoffs===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:60em"
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" 
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | 
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | 
! colspan="5" | [[Regular season]] 
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | 
! colspan="5" | [[Playoffs]] 
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" 
! [[Season (sports)|Season]] 
! Team 
! League 
! GP 
! [[Goal (ice hockey)|G]] 
! [[Assist (ice hockey)|A]] 
! [[Point (ice hockey)|Pts]] 
! [[Penalty (ice hockey)|PIM]] 
! GP
! G 
! A 
! Pts 
! PIM 
|-
| 1991–92
| [[HIFK (ice hockey)|HIFK]]
| FIN U20
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1992–93
| HIFK
| FIN U18
| 33
| 26
| 21
| 47
| 53
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-
| 1992–93
| HIFK
| FIN U20
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1993–94
| HIFK
| FIN U20
| 7
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 10
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-  
| 1994–95
| HIFK
| FIN U20
| 35
| 26
| 22
| 48
| 117
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1995–96 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season|1995–96]]
| [[Michigan Tech Huskies men's ice hockey|Michigan Tech University]]
| [[Western Collegiate Hockey Association|WCHA]]
| 38
| 12
| 10
| 22
| 96
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-
| [[1996–97 SM-liiga season|1996–97]]
| HIFK
| [[Liiga|SM-l]]
| 48
| 11
| 10
| 21
| 155
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1997–98 SM-liiga season|1997–98]]
| HIFK
| SM-l
| 37
| 10
| 10
| 20
| 166
| 9
| 7
| 4
| 11
| 10
|-
| [[1998–99 SM-liiga season|1998–99]]
| HIFK
| SM-l
| 25
| 10
| 4
| 14
| 136
| 9
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 43
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1999–2000 NHL season|1999–2000]]
| [[Vancouver Canucks]]
| [[National Hockey League|NHL]]
| 8
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 6
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-
| [[1999–2000 AHL season|1999–2000]]
| [[Syracuse Crunch]]
| [[American Hockey League|AHL]]
| 65
| 26
| 32
| 58
| 164
| 4
| 3
| 1
| 4
| 8
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2000–01 NHL season|2000–01]]
| Vancouver Canucks
| NHL
| 21
| 3
| 3
| 6
| 32
| 4
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 8
|-
| [[2000–01 IHL season|2000–01]]
| [[Kansas City Blades]]
| [[International Hockey League (1945–2001)|IHL]]
| 46
| 11
| 18
| 29
| 111
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2001–02 NHL season|2001–02]]
| Vancouver Canucks
| NHL
| 49
| 2
| 7
| 9
| 74
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|-
| [[2002–03 NHL season|2002–03]]
| Vancouver Canucks
| NHL
| 36
| 2
| 2
| 4
| 66
| 13
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 14
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2003–04 NHL season|2003–04]]
| Vancouver Canucks
| NHL
| 71
| 6
| 8
| 14
| 133
| 6
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 10
|-
| [[2004–05 SM-liiga season|2004–05]]
| HIFK
| SM-l
| 50
| 10
| 18
| 28
| 215
| 3
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 41
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2005–06 NHL season|2005–06]]
| Vancouver Canucks
| NHL
| 82
| 10
| 7
| 17
| 142
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-
| [[2006–07 NHL season|2006–07]]
| [[Pittsburgh Penguins]]
| NHL
| 81
| 7
| 9
| 16
| 125
| 5
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 10
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2007–08 NHL season|2007–08]]
| Pittsburgh Penguins
| NHL
| 71
| 6
| 10
| 16
| 138
| 20
| 2
| 1
| 3
| 26
|-
| [[2008–09 NHL season|2008–09]]
| [[Ottawa Senators]]
| NHL
| 78
| 7
| 14
| 21
| 144
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2009–10 NHL season|2009–10]]
| Ottawa Senators
| NHL
| 82
| 12
| 14
| 26
| 121
| 6
| 2
| 1
| 3
| 34
|-
| [[2010–11 NHL season|2010–11]]
| Ottawa Senators
| NHL
| 50
| 2
| 8
| 10
| 59
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 2010–11
| [[Anaheim Ducks]]
| NHL
| 23
| 1
| 1
| 2
| 38
| 3
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 12
|-
| [[2011–12 SM-liiga season|2011–12]]
| [[Jokerit]]
| SM-l
| 59
| 14
| 21
| 35
| 192
| 10
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 33
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2012–13 SM-liiga season|2012–13]]
| Jokerit
| SM-l
| 48
| 12
| 17
| 29
| 122
| 6
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 14
|-
| [[2013–14 Liiga season|2013–14]]
| Jokerit
| Liiga
| 51
| 10
| 11
| 21
| 86
| 2
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2014–15 NLA season|2014–15]]
| [[EHC Biel]]
| [[National League A|NLA]]
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 14
| —
| —
| —
| —
| —
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | SM-l/Liiga totals
! 318
! 77
! 91
! 168
! 1072
! 39
! 8
! 10
! 18
! 141
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals
! 652
! 58
! 84
! 142
! 1078
! 58
! 5
! 5
! 10
! 114
|}

===International===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:40em"
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Year
! Team
! Event
! Result
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|-
| [[1998 IIHF World Championship|1998]]
| [[Finland men's national ice hockey team|Finland]]
| [[World Ice Hockey Championships|WC]]
| {{silver2}}
| 10
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 16
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2001 IIHF World Championship|2001]]
| Finland
| WC
| {{silver2}}
| 9
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 10
|-
| [[Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|2002]]
| Finland
| [[Ice hockey at the Olympic Games|OG]]
| 6th
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 4
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2004 IIHF World Championship|2004]]
| Finland
| WC
| 6th
| 6
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 20
|-
| [[2004 World Cup of Hockey|2004]]
| Finland
| [[World Cup of Hockey|WCH]]
| {{silver2}}
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 6
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2005 IIHF World Championship|2005]]
| Finland
| WC
| 7th
| 7
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 4
|-
| [[Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|2006]]
| Finland
| OG
| {{silver2}}
| 8
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 31
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2006 IIHF World Championship|2006]]
| Finland
| WC
| {{bronze3}}
| 9
| 0
| 3
| 3
| 34
|-
| [[2007 IIHF World Championship|2007]]
| Finland
| WC
| {{silver2}}
| 9
| 0
| 1
| 1
| 29
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[2009 IIHF World Championship|2009]]
| Finland
| WC
| 5th
| 6
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 10
|-
| [[Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|2010]]
| Finland
| OG
| {{bronze3}}
| 6
| 2
| 1
| 3
| 14
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="4" | Senior totals
! 78
! 5
! 7
! 12
! 172
|}

== Transactions ==
* Signed as a free agent by [[HIFK (ice hockey)|HIFK]] Helsinki (Finland), 23 September 2004
* Signed as a free agent by [[Pittsburgh Penguins]], 4 July 2006
* Signed as a free agent by [[Ottawa Senators]], 2 July 2008
* Traded by the Ottawa Senators to the [[Anaheim Ducks]], 17 February 2011
* Signed as a free agent by [[Jokerit]], 9 September 2011

== See also ==
* [[Notable families in the NHL]]
*[[List of Olympic medalist families]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{icehockeystats}}

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