Tommy Salo

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Tommy Salo
Date of birth 1st February 1971
place of birth Surahammar , Sweden
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 5th round, 118th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
until 1994 Västerås IK
1994-1999 New York Islanders
1999-2004 Edmonton Oilers
2004 Colorado Avalanche
2004-2005 MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik
2005-2007 Frölunda HC

Tomas Mikael "Tommy" Salo (born February 1, 1971 in Surahammar ) is a former Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper who was active in the National Hockey League for the New York Islanders , Edmonton Oilers and Colorado Avalanche . Since March 2009 he has been the head coach of IK Oskarshamn in the second Swedish league, HockeyAllsvenskan .

Career

Tommy Salo was selected in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders in the fifth round at position 118. Salo was playing at the time in the Swedish Elitserien at VIK Västerås HK . However, he did not go straight to the NHL, but stayed in Sweden for another year. In February 1994 he experienced the first high point of his career when he won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics with the Swedish team .

In the summer of 1994 he moved to the New York Islanders in the NHL, but completed only six games in his first season and played mainly with the farm team in the IHL with the Denver Grizzlies . In addition to winning the championship, he received several awards there. He got the James Gatschene Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player of the season and the Garry F. Longman Memorial Trophy as the best young professional in the league. Then there was the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the goalkeeper with the fewest goals. The following season his appearances in the NHL were still rare and so he played on with the farm team, which had moved to Utah and were now called Utah Grizzlies . The season was again very positive because his team was able to defend the championship title. For the second time he got the James Norris Memorial Trophy, as he had again conceded the fewest goals and received the Norman R. "Bud" Poile Trophy as the most valuable player in the play-offs .

But now Tommy Salo's time in the IHL was over and he was the goalkeeper of the New York Islanders in the NHL for the 1996/97 season . Salo finally got the chance to assert himself in the top of the world, which he did, but the team success with the Islanders failed to materialize. Not once could they reach the playoffs. In 1998 he won the world title with the Swedish team . Towards the end of the 1998/99 season he was transferred to the Edmonton Oilers in an exchange deal and played his first four playoff games in the same season, but he lost all of them.

But the move to Edmonton had a positive effect on Tommy Salo, because not only did the team play more successfully, but Salo also performed better, so that he was allowed to participate in the NHL All-Star Game in 2000 and 2002 as a reward . In 2002 Salo played his third Winter Olympics . In the quarter-finals, however, he had to take the goal on his cap that led to the elimination against Belarus . During his time in Edmonton, Salo always reached the playoffs, with one exception. However, never got past the first round.

In March 2004 Salo was transferred to the Colorado Avalanche , where he was the back-up goalie for David Aebischer for the rest of the season and the playoffs . After this season the lockout and the cancellation of the 2004/05 NHL season followed . Salo had already signed a contract in the Swedish Elitserien with MODO Hockey in the summer , which suggests that Salo wanted to end his NHL career regardless of the season's cancellation. After the season, almost all of the NHL stars went back to North America, because the game should start again in October 2005.

Tommy Salo decided to stay in Sweden and played a very successful season with his new team Frölunda HC and made it to the final of the championship, but lost to Färjestad BK there . After another season with Frölunda, he ended his career in the summer of 2007 and signed a two-year contract as a coach with the Swedish third division club Kungälvs IK . Since March 2009 he has been under contract with IK Oskarshamn as head coach.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Main round Play-offs
season team league Sp. GT SO GTD FQ Sp. GT SO GTD FQ
1994/95 New York Islanders NHL 6th 18th 0 3.02 .905 - - - - -
1994/95 Denver Grizzlies IHL 65 165 3 2.60 .910 8th 20th 0 3.07 .890
1995/96 New York Islanders NHL 10 35 0 4.02 .860 - - - - -
1995/96 Utah grizzlies IHL 45 119 4th 2.65 .902 22nd 51 3 2.28 .919
1996/97 New York Islanders NHL 58 151 5 2.82 .904 - - - - -
1997/98 New York Islanders NHL 62 152 4th 2.64 .906 - - - - -
1998/99 New York Islanders NHL 51 132 5 2.62 .904 - - - - -
1998/99 Edmonton Oilers NHL 13 27 0 2.31 .903 4th 11 0 2.22 .931
1999/2000 Edmonton Oilers NHL 70 162 2 2.33 .914 5 14th 0 2.82 .895
2000/01 Edmonton Oilers NHL 73 179 8th 2.46 .904 6th 15th 0 2.21 .920
2001/02 Edmonton Oilers NHL 69 149 6th 2.22 .913 - - - - -
2002/03 Edmonton Oilers NHL 65 172 4th 2.70 .899 6th 18th 0 3.14 .888
2003/04 Edmonton Oilers NHL 44 107 3 2.58 .896 - - - - -
2003/04 Colorado Avalanche NHL 5 12 0 2.37 .912 1 0 0 0.00 1,000
2004/05 MoDo hockey SEL 36 93 0 2.58 .909 6th 19th 1 3.18 .888
2005/06 Frölunda HC SEL 37 90 0 2.47 .911 17th 40 1 2.35 .920
2006/07 Frölunda HC SEL 22nd ? ? 3.29 .875 - - - - -
NHL total 526 1296 37 2.55 .905 22nd 58 0 2.54 .910
IHL Total 110 284 7th . . 30th 71 3 . .
SEL total 95 . . 23 . .

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

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personal data
SURNAME Salo, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salo, Tomas Mikael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Surahammar, Sweden