Tuula Puputti

{{short description|Finnish ice hockey goaltender and administrator}} {{use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox ice hockey biography | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|11|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kuopio, Finland | death_date = | death_place = | height_cm = 162 | weight_kg = 60 | position = Goaltender | catches = Left | played_for = JYP Jyväskylä<br>Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs<br> KalPa Kuopio | ntl_team = Finland | sex = f | career_start = 1992 | career_end = 2003 | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze |1998 Nagano|Ice hockey}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalBronze|2000 Canada|}} {{MedalBronze|1999 Finland|}} {{MedalBronze|1997 Canada|}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championship}} {{MedalGold|1995 Latvia|}} {{MedalGold|1993 Denmark|}} }}

'''Tuula Katriina Puputti''' (born 5 November 1977) is a Finnish ice hockey administrator and retired goaltender. She is the head of hockey operations for PWHL Toronto of the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL).<ref name="kennedy20231014">{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Ian |title=Toronto Hires Tuula Puputti As Hockey Operations Manager |url=https://thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/toronto-pwhl-hires-tuula-puputti-hockey-operations-manager |access-date=9 December 2023 |work=The Hockey News |date=14 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

==Playing career== As a member of the Finnish national team, Puputti won a bronze medal in the women’s ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics,<ref name="SR">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pu/tuula-puputti-1.html |title=Tuula Puputti}}</ref><ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/winter/1998/ICH/ |title=Finland Ice Hockey at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053926/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/winter/1998/ICH/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17}}</ref> and three IIHF World Women's Championship bronze medals, in 1997, 1999, and 2000. She also competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2001 IIHF Women's World Championship.

==Executive career== Puputti served as general manager of the Finnish women's national ice hockey team and women's national under-18 ice hockey team, and as Developer of Girls' Hockey ({{langx|fi|Tyttökiekon kehittäjä}}) for the Finnish Ice Hockey Association during 2013 to 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date= |title=Henkilökunnan Esittelyt: Puputti Tuula |url=https://www.finhockey.fi/index.php/info/yhteystiedot/item/2315-puputti-tuula |archive-url=|archive-date= |access-date=2020-08-19 |website=Finnish Ice Hockey Association |language=fi-fi}}</ref>

==Career statistics== ===International=== {| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" ID="Table3" style="text-align:center; width:40em" |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Year ! Team ! Event ! Result ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! GP ! W ! L ! T/OT ! MIN ! GA ! SO ! GAA ! SV% |- | 1998 | Finland | OG | {{bronze3}} | 5 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 270:42 || 7 || 1 || 1.55 || 0.896 |- bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2002 | Finland | OG | 4th | 5 || 2 || 3 || 0 || 299:22 || 16 || 1 || 3.01 || 0.899 |}

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==External links== * {{Icehockeystats}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{Olympics.com profile|tuula-puputti}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Puputti, Tuula}} Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Finnish expatriate ice hockey people in Canada Category:Finnish ice hockey administrators Category:Finnish women's ice hockey goaltenders Category:Ice hockey people from Kuopio Category:Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Category:Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics Category:JYP Jyväskylä Naiset players Category:KalPa Naiset players Category:Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Category:Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey players Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Category:Olympic ice hockey players for Finland Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey