Yep I was aware of that. I have compiled somesort of personal database, but its quite a mess and not entirely complete.
But its nice to get those early years in book... I´m genuinely excited about this. There are lot of fascinating players that has been totally forgotten. I believe Frans Karjagin also played in Finnish Championhip.
And if you go deeper there was HPV which played in Helsinki "district league". Which could be called the first "leftist" Finnish hockey team. It was compiled by the expelled TUL players. But that is already possibly too trivial.
Again out of curiosity have you find anything about Rolf Laurén playing in Germany? I have talked with one really hardcore historian in here in he had in his information that Laurén would have learned the game in Germany. And I have seen the old document where Tiitola brothers mention that he had played in Germany. But did he actually play in any organized hockey.
). We were both working in the microfilm era, so even though I had his answer, I did my due diligence and only referred to his logs if/when I got stuck or couldn't get things to reconcile. Found a few discrepancies and a few places where we reasonably disagreed - since there were many cases where (for instance) not a single newspaper would print how shots faced were distributed between two goaltenders in a mid-period replacement situation.
