Bengt-Åke Gustafsson
 Bengt-Åke Gustafsson 
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| IIHF Hall of Fame , 2003 | |
| Date of birth | March 23, 1958 |
| place of birth | Karlskoga , Sweden |
| size | 183 cm |
| Weight | 90 kg |
| position | center |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Draft | |
| NHL Amateur Draft |
1978 , 4th round, 55th position Washington Capitals |
| Career stations | |
| until 1977 | Bofors IK |
| 1977-1979 | Färjestad BK |
| 1979 | Edmonton Oilers |
| 1979-1989 | Washington Capitals |
| 1989-1993 | Färjestad BK |
| 1993-1999 | VEU Feldkirch |
Bengt-Åke Gustafsson (born March 23, 1958 in Karlskoga ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current coach . Until February 2018 he was the head coach of the Swiss second division club EHC Olten .
He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the International Ice Hockey Federation .
Player career
Gustafsson comes from Karlskoga and developed into the Swedish junior national player at the local KB Karlskoga. He played for Färjestad BK in the Swedish first division in the late 1970s and was drawn 55th in the fourth round by the Washington Capitals in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft . He began his career in North America at the time in the WHA gambling Edmonton Oilers . When the Oilers entered the NHL the following season , the Capitals asserted their rights to him. For this he then played for nine seasons. In 1989 he moved back to his home country Sweden, where he worked for Färjestad BK Karlstad for another four years . After that, at the end of his career, he played for five years in Austria at VEU Feldkirch , where he achieved a remarkable success in 1998 when the team was the first from the German-speaking area to win the European Hockey League - with players such as Reinhard Divis , Rick Nasheim , Simon Wheeldon , Dominic Lavoie and his longtime colleague Thomas Rundqvist under the coach Ralph Krueger and the assistant coach Konrad Dorn - could win. He was also five times Austrian champion with Feldkirch.
He played with the Swedish national team at the 1992 Olympic Games , five world championships and two Canada Cups . He completed a total of 117 international matches, his greatest successes as a national player were the world championship titles in 1987 and 1991, the World Cup silver medal in 1981 and the bronze medal in 1979.
In 2003 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Ice Hockey Federation for his achievements during his playing career .
Coaching career
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| 1997-2001 | Switzerland ( assistant coach ) |
| 1998-1999 | VEU Feldkirch |
| 1999-2001 | SC Langnau |
| 2001-2005 | Färjestad BK |
| 2005-2010 | Sweden |
| 2010-2011 | ZSC Lions |
| 2011 | Atlant Mytishchi |
| 2012-2013 | Nuremberg Ice Tigers |
| 2013-2015 | SCL Tigers |
| 2017-2018 | EHC Olten |
In 1997, Gustafsson became the assistant to head coach Ralph Krueger for the Swiss national team , was part of the Swiss coaching staff at five World Cup appearances and held this post until 2002.
In addition to this task, Gustafsson supervised the Austrian first division club VEU Feldkirch , where he had ended his playing career, as head coach in the 1998/99 season . For the 1999/2000 season he moved to the Swiss first division ice skate club Langnau , where he was head coach for two years. This was followed by four years (2001 to 2005) as head coach of the Swedish SHL club Färjestad BK , for which he had also once played. He led Färjestad to the Swedish championship in the 2001/02 season.
On February 14, 2005 Gustafsson was introduced as the new head coach of the Swedish national team. In 2006 the double was achieved under his leadership - that is, Tre Kronor first won the Olympic ice hockey tournament in Turin and in the same year the men's ice hockey world championship 2006 , which was a novelty. In 2009 and 2010 he led Sweden to bronze medal at the World Cup. After the 2010 World Cup , he resigned from his position as national coach.
In October 2010 he got a job with the ZSC Lions and signed a contract there until the end of the season, which was not extended in March 2011 after the ZSC Lions were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the playoffs against the Kloten Flyers . He then coached Atlant Mytishchi until November 2011 . From December 9th, 2012 to March 21st, 2013 he was the trainer of the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL), afterwards he was in charge of the SCL Tigers from 2013 to 2015 . With the SCL he managed to climb out of the National League B in the first-class National League A . A contract extension did not come about.
On January 24, 2017, he took over the post of head coach at EHC Olten from the National League B as the successor to the dismissed Maurizio Mansi . At the beginning of February 2018, he had to go to Olten, before the team had only five wins in 15 games since mid-December 2017 was in fourth place in the NLB at the time of the split.
Achievements and Awards
As a player
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As a trainer
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statistics
| Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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| NHL Regular Season | 9 | 629 | 196 | 359 | 555 | 196 |
| NHL playoffs | 5 | 18th | 5 | 10 | 15th | 10 |
| WHA regular season | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| WHA playoffs | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Web links
- Bengt-Åke Gustafsson at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Bengt-Åke Gustafsson at eurohockey.com
- Bengt-Åke Gustafsson at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ By Angelo Rocchinotti and Stephan Roth: Eldebrink and Gustafsson face each other as coaches: Derby atmosphere! - look. In: www.blick.ch. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
- ^ The Team Sweden Head Coach. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 15, 2016 ; accessed on March 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ IIHF Hall of Fame. In: www.iihf.com. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Be sure to win. In: SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
- ↑ In conversation with: Bengt Ake Gustafsson. In: vol.at. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
- ^ Tages-Anzeiger : ZSC Lions sack trainer Colin Muller
- ↑ Nürnberg Ice Tigers: Sports leadership must go ( Memento from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Success story without a happy ending. In: bernerzeitung.ch/. Retrieved March 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Web agency: MySign © 2017 Switzerland, http://www.mysign.ch : Further information - Ice Hockey Club Olten EHCO. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved on January 25, 2017 (Swiss Standard German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.oltnertagblatt.ch/sport/solothurn/der-ehc-olten-entlaesst-trainer-gustafsson-chris-bartolone-uebernnahm-bis-zum-saisonende-132165678
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| SURNAME | Gustafsson, Bengt-Åke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlskoga , Sweden |