Noora Räty

Noora Räty
Born (1989-05-29) 29 May 1989
Espoo, Finland
Height 5 ft 5 in (165 cm)
Weight 152 lb (69 kg; 10 st 12 lb)
Position Goaltender
Catches Left
CWHL team
Former teams		 Kunlun Red Star
Pyry Nokia
Espoo Blues
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Ilves
SKIF Nizhny Novgorod
Kiekko-Vantaa
Bewe TuusKi
KJT
National team  Finland
Playing career 2004–present
Medal record
Olympic Games
2010 VancouverTeam
2018 PyeongchangTeam
World Championships
2008 China
2009 Finland
2011 Switzerland
2017 United States

Noora Helena Räty (born 29 May 1989) is a Finnish ice hockey player and a member of the Finland women's national ice hockey team who plays for Kunlun Red Star in the Canadian Women's Hockey League.

Playing career

Räty was named Finland's best women's ice hockey player in 2007 and 2008 and best goalie in 2006 and 2007. She was awarded the Rookie of the Year in 2005–06. In national league action in Finland, she has played in over 55 games, 12 of which were shutouts. Throughout her national league career, Räty has held a 1.45 goals against average and a .950 save percentage. In playoff competition alone had eight shutouts in 22 games played with a 1.24 GAA. Räty also played competitively in high school and was named the Haukilahti High School best hockey player of the year 2006 and 2008.

Minnesota Golden Gophers

Räty enrolled as a freshman at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the autumn of 2009 and joined the Golden Gopher women's hockey team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). Räty's first start for the Gophers came in the team's second game of the 2009–2010 season at home against Syracuse University (a 4–1 win).[1] Through the WCHA conference tournament (3/7/2010), Räty amassed a 17–3–4 record in 24 starts with 7 shutouts, a GAA of 1.24, and a save percentage of .951.[2]

Räty won a number of WCHA conference awards during the 2009–2010 season, being named WCHA Goaltending Champion (based on GAA), the goaltender of the All-WCHA First Team, and the goaltender of the All-WCHA Rookie Team.[3] Räty was also named the WCHA Defensive Player of the Week four times and WCHA Rookie of the Week once.[4]

In March 2010, Räty became only the second freshman to be a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award.[5] She set a Golden Gophers club record for most assists in one season by a goaltender (3).

To start the 2010–11 season, Raty had a shutout in the first three games of the season.[6] On 22 and 23 October 2010, she recorded back to back shutouts against the St. Cloud State Huskies. She held the Huskies scoreless as Minnesota swept the series by scores of 5–0 and 3–0, respectively. Raty played the full 120:00 minutes of the series. She accumulated 14 saves in the first game, while posting 18 in the second game.

Räty played on national championship teams in 2011–2012 and 2012–13. The 2012–13 team finished 41–0–0, and the team won the last 49 games of Räty's career. Räty finished with both the career and single-season record for shutouts.[7]

Kiekko-Vantaa

In March 2014, Yle revealed that Räty had signed a contract with Mestis club Kiekko-Vantaa for the 2014-15 season.[8] She will become only the second female to play in Mestis, the first being Hayley Wickenheiser.

Räty was loaned to the Bewe Tuuski, a team in Finland's third highest league, the Suomi-sarja. She played her first game for Kiekko-Vantaa on 22 October 2014 being the first Finnish woman ever to play a game in the men's second-tier Mestis league.[9]

Team Finland

Räty has been a member of the Finnish National Team since 15 and has over 65 games in international play. At the age of 16, she participated for Team Finland at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. She helped Finland to their second-straight bronze medal at the 2009 IIHF World Championships. During the 2008 World Championships, Räty shut out Team USA, 1–0, and had 30 saves. At the 2009 world championships with a 1.48 goals against average and a 3–1–0 record. She was named the tournament's best goalie in 2007 and 2008 and earned the most valuable player award in 2008.[10]

She won a bronze medal at the 2010 Four Nations Cup in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Noora Raty would post a shutout in the gold medal of the 2017 Nations Cup against Canada, which featured opposing goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer. Of note, Finland prevailed in a 1-0 final that saw Michelle Karvinen log the game-winning tally.[11]

CWHL

Selected in the first round of the 2017 CWHL Draft by China's expansion Kunlun Red Star franchise, she emerged as a key contributor for a club that finished the 2017-18 CWHL season in second place. Raty's first win with the Red Star took place on 28 October 2017, a 4-3 overtime win versus the Calgary Inferno, recording 39 saves. Coincidentally, Annina Rajahuhta, a teammate of Raty on the Finnish national team, recorded the game-winning tally in overtime.[12] She would finish the season leading the league in goals against average and shutouts.

By season's end, Raty would emerge as the CWHL's regular season goaltending champion, leading the league in Goals Against Average. In addition, she would tie for the league in shutouts with goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer of Les Canadiennes, with 6. Of note, Raty would win the CWHL Goaltender of the Year Award, becoming the first European-born goaltender to capture the honor.

Raty was the starting goaltender for the Red Star in the 2018 Clarkson Cup finals, which were held in Toronto. Challenging the Markham Thunder, the contest went into overtime, where Laura Stacey scored with 2:11 left in the 4-on-4 overtime, as Markham prevailed by a 2-1 tally for its first-ever Cup win.[13] Raty recorded 37 saves in the contest.[14]

Career statistics

NCAA career

Minnesota

SeasonGamesWinsLossesTiesGoals againstMinutesGAAShutoutsSavesSave %
2009–10261844361623:421.33037663.948
2010–11352582602036:411.76769957.941
2011–12403352532361:031.346910854.942
2012–13383800362240:110.964217776.956

Olympic career

Torino 2006

DateResultSaveSave %
13 FebruaryFinland 4, Switzerland 018100.0%
13 FebruaryCanada 6, Finland 01487.5%
13 FebruaryUSA 4, Finland 0763.6%

[15]

Vancouver 2010

  • In the bronze medal game versus Sweden, at the 2010 Olympics, Räty made 16 saves for Finland. The Finnish team would win the bronze medal 2:33 into overtime.[16]
Games PlayedMinutesWinsLossesShutoutsGoals AgainstSaves Shots on GoalSave %Goals Against Average
5302:333201511412988.372.97

CWHL

= Indicates league leader
YearTeamGPMINGASVSWLTGAASO
2017-18Kunlun Red Star2011593152016301.606

[17]

Awards and honors

International awards

  • Most Valuable Player, 2008 IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships[18]
  • Best Goalie, 2007 IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships
  • Best Goalie, 2008 IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships[18]
  • Directorate Award, Best Goaltender, 2011 IIHF Women's World Championship[19]
  • Best Goalie, 2017 IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships[20]

WCHA honors

  • WCHA Defensive Player of the Week (week of 19 October 2009)[21]
  • WCHA Rookie of the Week (week of 26 October 2009)[22]
  • WCHA Defensive Player of the Week (week of 30 November 2009)[23]
  • WCHA Co-Defensive Player of the Week (week of 7 December 2009)[24]
  • WCHA Defensive Player of the Week (week of 25 January 2010)[25]
  • 2010 WCHA Goaltending Champion[3]
  • 2010 All-WCHA First Team[3]
  • 2010 WCHA All-Rookie Team[3]
  • 2010 Golden Goldy Award as the University of Minnesota's Female Rookie of the Year[26]
  • WCHA Defensive Player of the Week (Week of 27 October 2010)
  • 2011 All-WCHA First Team[27]
  • WCHA Defensive Player of the Week (Week of 8 November 2011)[28]
  • WCHA Co-Defensive Player of the Week (Week of 25 October 2012)[29]

NCAA honors

CWHL

  • 2018 Goaltender of the Year

References

  1. ↑ "Syracuse (SYR) at Minnesota (MIN)". Collegehockeystats.net. 4 October 2009. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  2. ↑ "Minnesota Golden Gophers (Women) 2009–2010 Team Statistics". Collegehockeystats.net. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Schleper Named WCHA Defensive Player of the Year (3/4/2010)
  4. ↑ Räty Named WCHA Defensive Player of the Week (1/27/2010)
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ "Räty sets two records as Gophers advance in playoffs".
  8. ↑ "Men's hockey team signs female goalie". Yle. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  9. ↑ http://yle.fi/uutiset/raty_makes_historybut_could_do_with_fewer_phone_calls/7548537
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ "Canada's National Women's Development Team Claims Silver at Nations Cup". Hockey Canada. 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  12. ↑ n/a (28 October 2017). "Game #: 10 - Saturday, October 28, 2017". CWHL. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  13. ↑ Kevin McGran (25 March 2018). "Laura Stacey's overtime winner gives Markham its first Clarkson Cup". Toronto Star. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  14. ↑ n/a (25 March 2018). "Game # 0 - Sunday, March 25, 2018". CWHL. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  15. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Noora Räty". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  16. ↑ "Finland Beats Swedes in Overtime for Bronze". Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  17. ↑ n/a (n.d.). "Noora Raty". CWHL. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  18. 1 2 Collins gem Hockey Facts and Stats 2009–10, p. 546, Andrew Podnieks, Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 978-1-55468-621-6.
  19. ↑ "Tomcikova named MVP". Iihf.com. 25 April 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  20. ↑ "Decker Named MVP". Iihf.com. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-03. /
  21. ↑ http://www.wcha.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/102109aaa.html. Retrieved 21 October 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  25. ↑ http://www.wcha.com/sports/w-hockey/spec-rel/012710aaa.html. Retrieved 30 January 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ↑ "Raty and Schleper Earn Department Honors". Minnesota Golden Gophers. 26 April 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  27. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
  28. ↑ http://www.wcha.com/women/pres1112/201111/nov9wpw.pdf
  29. ↑ "MSU's McCann, UND's Dagfinrud, UM's Räty & Brandt Named WCHA Women's Players of the Week". WCHA.com. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  30. ↑ "Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Recipients". USA Hockey. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
  31. ↑ "Eight WCHA Players Among Nominees for 2011 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award". WCHA.com. 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
  32. ↑ "Women's Division I Old Time Hockey All-Americans Announced". American Hockey Coaches Association. 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2013-01-31.
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