Erkka Westerlund

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Erkka Westerlund (born 30 March 1957, Pernaja, Finland) is the head coach of the Finnish national men's ice hockey team. He was appointed head coach on November 1, 2004, and his contract extends to May 2006. He followed Raimo Summanen as head coach of the national team.

Erkka has coached several Finnish ice hockey teams in the SM-Liiga: JYP (1985-1988), Lukko (1989-1991), HIFK (1997-1999) and Jokerit (1999-2001)

During his coaching career Erkka Westerlund has won the Finnish Championship once: 1998, with HIFK and finished twice in the second place: 1999 & 2000. Internationally Erkka has won one Olympic Silver medal and one World Championship Bronze.

As a player Westerlund was a forward. He played in the 1978/1979 season for Jukurit, in 34 games he scored 7 goals and gave 10 assists. In the 1980/1981 season he played for JYP. Here he played 23 games, scoring 3 goals and 1 assist.

Preceded by Timo Lahtinen	Jokerit head coach 1999 – 2001	Succeeded by Raimo Summanen
Preceded by Raimo Summanen	Finnish national ice hockey team coach 2004 – 2007	Succeeded by Doug Shedden