Stefan Örnskog

Stefan Örnskog
Date of birth	4th April 1969
place of birth	Jonkoping , Sweden
size	180 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1987-1998	HV71
1998-2000	JYP Jyväskylä
2000-2001	HV71

Stefan Örnskog (born April 4, 1969 in Jönköping ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who played in his active time from 1987 to 2001 for HV71 in the Swedish Elitserien and JYP Jyväskylä in the Finnish SM-liiga .

Career

Stefan Örnskog began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at HV71 , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Elitserien in the 1987/88 season , scoring three points in a total of 15 games in his rookie year . The center won the Swedish championship with the team in the 1994/95 season for the first and only time in its career .

In the summer of 1998, the left shooter moved to JYP Jyväskylä from the Finnish SM-liiga , which he left after a year and a half in the course of the 1999/2000 season to return to Jönköping. There he ended his career in 2001 at the age of 32. After the season, his number 15 was honored by the HV71 and has not been awarded since then.

International

For Sweden , Örnskog took part in the 1989 World Junior Championships and the 1994 and 1995 World Championships . Furthermore, he was in Sweden's squad for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

Achievements and Awards

• 1989 silver medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1994 gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1994 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1995 Swedish champion with the HV71
• 1995 silver medal at the world championship

Web links

• Stefan Örnskog at hockeydb.com (English)
• Stefan Örnskog at eurohockey.com
• Stefan Örnskog in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )