"HPY" redirects here. For the airport, see Baytown Airport.

Elisa Oyj

Type	Julkinen osakeyhtiö (OMX: ELI1V)
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1882
Headquarters	Helsinki, Finland
Key people	Risto Siilasmaa (Chairman), Veli-Matti Mattila (President and CEO)
Products	Retail and wholesale fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services, internet services
Revenue	€1.463 billion (2010)[1]
Operating income	€268.0 million (2010)[1]
Profit	€149.7 million (2010)[1]
Total assets	€1.972 billion (end 2010)[1]
Total equity	€832.9 million (end 2010)[1]
Employees	3,480 (average, 2010)[1]
Website	www.elisa.com

Elisa Oyj is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 that was known until July 2000 as HPY. Elisa Oyj employs about 3000 people and in 2007 had revenue of about €1.57 billion. The mobile operations of Elisa were previously known as Radiolinja; Elisa has a co-operation agreement with Vodafone for mobile telephony.

Technical history[link]

HPY got started on 6 June 1882, by connecting 56 phone numbers. By 1884 the number of yearly calls surpassed one million.

Elisa launched the first commercial GSM service in 1991 and the world's first commercial UMTS900 network on November 8, 2007.

Corporate history[link]

Until 2000 Elisa was a telephone cooperative known as Helsingin puhelinyhdistys (HPY). HPY started expanding during the 1930s by merging with smaller cooperative telephone operators. The company reached its current geographical operating field in 1958. The original form of incorporation, a mutual association, was changed to a legal cooperative (Helsingin puhelinosuuskunta) in 1995. The cooperative was finally demutualized in 2000.

Investment company Novator Partners acquired a 10.4% stake in Elisa in 2005 through a share swap when Elisa bought the smaller operator Saunalahti, which had been mostly owned by Novator. Novator tried to revamp Elisa in December 2007, but was opposed by Finnish institutions such as Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company. On October 13, 2008, during the Icelandic financial crisis, it was announced that Novator had sold its entire stake in Elisa to Varma for 194 million euros (US$266 million), a price of €11.20/share.^[2]

See also [link]

• Vodafone

References[link]

External links [link]

• Official website

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Mikael Granlund
Born	(1992-02-26) February 26, 1992 (age 20) Oulu, Finland
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb)
Position	Centre
Shoots	Left
NHL team Former teams	Minnesota Wild Helsingin IFK, Oulun Kärpät
National team	Finland
NHL Draft	9th overall, 2010 Minnesota Wild
Playing career	2008–present

Mikael Antero Granlund (born February 26, 1992) is a Finnish professional ice hockey centre who most recently played for HIFK of the Finnish SM-liiga. He was the ninth overall pick, selected by the Minnesota Wild, in the 2010 NHL Draft and is currently under contract with the Wild. He is the older brother of Markus Granlund, who was drafted by the Calgary Flames.

Playing career[link]

Granlund in the first game of the 2009–10 SM-liiga season.

Granlund played junior ice hockey with Kärpät in 2007–08 and 2008–09, averaging greater than a point per game in both seasons,^[1] and was named a first-team All-Star by his junior A league in 2009.^[2] He gained his first professional experience late that season, making his debut with Kärpät's team in the SM-liiga on his 17th birthday.^[3] He played only two games before he became embroiled in a contract dispute with the team. Granlund and his agent alleged that the four year junior contract he signed with Kärpät in 2007 was invalid, because it failed to define what compensation he would get from the team, and that the team had altered the end date on his SM-liiga insurance application from April 2009 to April 2011 without his approval. The team admitted that mistakes were made, but that they were made in good faith as both the team and player wished to get him in their top team immediately.^[4]

Arguing his contracts to be void, and considering himself to be a free agent, Granlund signed a contract with HIFK Helsinki for the 2009–10 season; Kärpät challenged his attempts to transfer to HIFK.^[5] Granlund sued his old team in July 2009 after Kärpät failed to relent, asking a court to cancel his contracts with them and clear the way for him to play with HIFK.^[4] The two sides reached an out of court settlement a month later, allowing Granlund to transfer to his new team.^[6] He scored 13 goals and 27 assists in 43 games with HIFK in 2009–10,^[7] and was the top rookie scoring 40 points.^[8] He was named the winner of the Jarmo Wasama memorial trophy as the SM-liiga's top rookie, and with only two penalty minutes in the whole the season, he also won the Raimo Kilpiö trophy as the league's most gentlemanly player.^[9] Additionally, Granlund was voted Finland's young Athlete of the Year for 2009.^[10]

He has played with the Finnish national junior team at both the Under-18 and Under-20 World Championships in 2009 and 2010. At 2010 U18 Championship Granlund scored most assists with nine, and his total thirteen points was the third best in the tournament, as he helped Finland win its second consecutive bronze medal.^[8] At the 2010 World Junior Championship he was Finland's top scorer with seven points as the team finished fifth overall.^[11]

Among skaters Granlund was considered the top European prospect for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau.^[12] While scouts have noted his small size at five feet, ten inches, they are impressed with his vision on the ice. Granlund was selected in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, drafted ninth overall by the Minnesota Wild.^[1]

As Granlund's contract ran through the 2010–11 season, he returned to HIFK for one more season. Suffering a concussion in mid-October, Granlund was sidelined for over two months, missing the 2011 World Junior Championship as a result. Acting primarily as a playmaker, Granlund was a key player in helping HIFK win the SM-liiga title. Granlund was second in playoff scoring (5-11–16), behind team-mate Juha-Pekka Haataja (8-8--16).^[13]

Granlund during celebrating the Hockey World Championship in Helsinki in 2011

Following the 2010–11 SM-liiga season, Granlund made his debut with the senior Finnish national team for the 2011 IIHF World Championship. Using the Mike Legg Michigan style scoop in a full-speed variation, Granlund scored a lacrosse style highlight reel goal at the 2011 IIHF World Championship semifinal versus Russia, helping Finland win gold. ^{[14][15][16][17][18][19]} In May 2011, Dynamo Minsk from the KHL has been publicly claiming him since the team drafted him one year prior to the NHL draft .^[20] However, because of Finland's mandatory military service requirements, Granlund remained with HIFK through the 2011–12 season.^[21] Granlund himself has stated he's not interested in playing in the KHL^[22] but plans to aim for the NHL.

In popular culture[link]

After Granlund's spectacular "lacrosse-style" goal at the 2011 IIHF World Championship semifinal versus Russia, Finnish Hockey Mafia released the single "Taivas varjele!" featuring sampled comments by Finnish sports broadcaster Antero Mertaranta. The single released the same week of the much-talked about goal reached #2 in the Finnish Singles Chart^[23] as well as topping the chart for most Finnish Singles downloads that week.

Career statistics[link]

Regular season and playoffs

International

Year	Team	Event	Result	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2009	Finland	WJC-U18	3 !	6	2	11	13	0
2009	Finland	WJC	7th	6	2	1	3	0
2010	Finland	WJC-U18	3 !	6	4	9	13	4
2010	Finland	WJC	5th	6	1	6	7	4
2011	Finland	WC	1 !	9	2	7	9	2
2012	Finland	WJC	4th	7	2	9	11	0
2012	Finland	WC	4th	10	1	4	5	0
Junior totals				31	11	36	47	8
Men totals				16	2	11	13	2

Awards and honours[link]

Medal record
Granlund at the 2010 World Junior Championships
Competitor for Finland
IIHF World U18 Championships
Bronze	2009 United States
Bronze	2010 Belarus
World Championships
Gold	2011 Slovakia

References[link]

External links[link]

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