Heikki Mälkiä: key obituary facts
Is Heikki Mälkiä dead? Yes. Heikki Mälkiä died on October 13, 2026, at age 68.
Cause of death: Heikki Mälkiä's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Heikki Mälkiä known for?
Heikki Mälkiä was a Finnish hockey player and coach.
Heikki Mälkiä, a Finnish hockey player and coach, died October 13, 2026, aged 68.
Born in Imatra on March 7, 1958, he ended his playing career and worked as a hockey coach. Outside sport, his civilian occupation was firefighter, a role alongside his work in Finnish hockey.
Mälkiä completed coaching qualifications as a youth coach, an ice hockey coach and a top-level coach. His biography records training at each of those levels. His family also included hockey players: his son, Simo Mälkiä, played several seasons in Mestis and then in SM-liiga from the 2007–08 season through 2011. At SaiPa, Simo used his father’s No. 20, even though the number had been retired. Heikki Mälkiä’s older brother was Jari Mälkiä.