Birth Date: | July 21, 1988 |
Birth Place: | Ylivieska, Finland |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 9 |
Weight Lb: | 165 |
Position: | Winger |
Shoots: | Right |
Team: | Stjernen Hockey |
League: | GET-ligaen |
Former Teams: | TUTO Hockey Hokki Beibarys Atyrau Narvik Hockey |
Career Start: | 2009 |
Arttu Niskakangas (born July 21, 1988) is a Finnish-Norwegian professional ice hockey winger who plays for Stjernen Hockey of the GET-ligaen.
Niskakangas played in junior level for Vaasan Sport, SaiPa and TPS between 2004 and 2009 before making his senior debut for TUTO Hockey of Mestis. He played a total of five seasons in Mestis for TUTO and Hokki, playing a total of 240 regular season games in the league.
On May 28, 2015, he joined Narvik Hockey of Norway's second tier First Division.[1] He spent five seasons with the team, during which he helped the team earn promotion to the GET-ligaen in 2019. On March 27, 2020, Niskakangas joined fellow GET-ligaen side Stjernen Hockey.[2]