KalPa
Sign in to saveKalevan Pallo (KalPa) is a professional ice hockey team which competes in the Finnish Liiga. They play in Kuopio, Finland at the Olvi Areena.
Key facts
- Ice hockey team.team
- KalPa
- Ice hockey team.bg_colour
- background:#FFFFFF; border-top:#000000 5px solid; border-bottom:#fdcb00 5px solid;
- Ice hockey team.text_colour
- 000000
- Ice hockey team.logo
- KalPa logo.svg
- Ice hockey team.logo_size
- 190px
- Ice hockey team.city
- Kuopio
- Ice hockey team.league
- Liiga
- Ice hockey team.arena
- Olvi Areena
- Ice hockey team.capacity
- 5,300
- Ice hockey team.colours
- Black, gold
- Ice hockey team.coach
- Petri Karjalainen
- Ice hockey team.captain
- Tuomas Kiiskinen
- Ice hockey team.affiliates
- IPK
- Ice hockey team.championships
- 2025
- Ice hockey team.uniform
- 150px
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Team history
- Honors
- SM-liiga
- Mestis
- Finnish Liiga A-juniors (U20)
- [[Spengler Cup]]
- Players
- Current roster
- Honored members
- NHL alumni
- References
- External links
Kalevan Pallo (KalPa) is a professional ice hockey team which competes in the Finnish Liiga. They play in Kuopio, Finland at the Olvi Areena.
==Team history== Established in 1929 as Sortavalan Palloseura in Sortavala, the club relocated to Kuopio in 1945 after its original hometown had been annexed by the Soviet Union. During its Sortavala years, the club was not active in ice hockey, but competed in association football, bandy, and pesäpallo instead. Ice hockey was introduced in 1947, and in 1956 KalPa officially replaced the more traditional Kuopio club KuPS in that sport thus specializing in hockey – minor league football was still continued until 1974 as a farm team of sorts for KuPS.