Roger Hansson

Roger Hansson
Date of birth	July 13, 1967
place of birth	Helsingborg , Sweden
size	187 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1987 , 11th lap, 213rd position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1984-1991	Rögle BK
1991-1996	Malmö IF
1996-2001	Kassel Huskies
2001-2003	Rögle BK

Kent Roger Hansson (born July 13, 1967 in Helsingborg ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current - trainer and - functional , who between 1984 and 2003 for Malmö IF in the Swedish Elitserien , Rögle BK in the HockeyAllsvenskan and the Kassel Huskies in the German Hockey League played. With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics .

Career

Hansson already played ice hockey successfully in his youth with Rögle BK , so that before the start of the 1987/88 season the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League signed him, which had selected him in the eleventh round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft in 213rd position . However, the striker did not play a single NHL game for the Canucks.

The native Swede stormed almost 200 games for Malmö IF in the Elitserien - the highest Swedish ice hockey league - from 1991 to 1996 and convinced there in five years with over 100 points scorer . He also won the gold medal in ice hockey with the Swedish national team at the 1994 Winter Olympics .

After he moved to the Kassel Huskies in the German ice hockey league in the 1996/97 season , he won the German runner- up with the North Hesse in the same season. Although the following years in Germany were less successful, he and his team made it to the play-off semi-finals in 2000 and 2001 under the coach of the time, Hans Zach .

After five years of playing in Kassel and over 230 DEL games with over 120 scorer points, he returned to Sweden, where he ended his career at Rögle BK and became the club's managing director. His team from Ängelholm made it into the Elitserien in 2008 . He worked in this position until 2010 before Hansson worked as an assistant coach at Rögle BK for two seasons.

For the 2019/20 season he was hired by the Swiss Swiss League club EVZ Academy as head coach.

Achievements and Awards

• 1992 Swedish champion with Malmö IF
• 1992 European Cup win with Malmö IF
• 1994 Swedish champion with Malmö IF

International

• 1987 bronze medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1992 gold medal at the world championship
• 1994 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1994 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1995 silver medal at the world championship

Web links

• Roger Hansson at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Roger Hansson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Roger Hansson at eurohockey.com
• Roger Hansson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )