

Jani Nyman (Finnish pronunciation: ; born 30 July 2004) is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a right winger for the Coachella Valley Firebirds of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 49th overall, by the Kraken in the 2022 NHL entry draft.
Playing career
Nyman played junior hockey with Tampere Ilves's SM-sarja team. In the 2018–19 season, Nyman won the C-youth Championship qualifiers with 22 goals and 46 points. In the playoffs, he was Ilves's best scorer with four goals and five points, tied with Julius Ikonen. In the 2020–21 season, with 10 goals and 23 points, he tied for second place in Ilves's goal scoring rankings with Nikolai Hakala.
On 3 May 2021, Nyman signed a 3-year SM-Liiga contract with Ilves. He played most of the 2021–22 season on loan with the team Koovee in Mestis, where Nyman played 34 regular season games with 18 goals and 35 points, which made him the team's best scorer. Nyman was chosen as Mestis's rookie of the month for the months of November and March. Nyman would make his Liiga debut with Ilves when he was only 17 years old on 16 October 2021, away against Helsinki IFK. A place in Ilves's lineup opened up for Nyman due to an injury to Balázs Sebők. He would get placed on the fourth line, with Joni Ikonen and Joonas Oden. In the game, any man would get an assist for on a goal by Matias Mäntykivi. Nyman would play ten games in the Liiga during the season.
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