Bengt Lundholm

Bengt Lundholm
Date of birth	4th August 1955
place of birth	Falun , Sweden
size	183 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
WHA Amateur Draft	1975 , 13th lap, 166th position Winnipeg Jets
Career stations
until 1972	Falu IF
1972-1977	Leksands IF
1977-1981	AIK Solna
1981-1986	Winnipeg Jets
1986-1987	AIK Solna

Bengt Johan Lundholm (born August 4, 1955 in Falun ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who played for the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League from 1971 to 1987 .

Career

Bengt Lundholm began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the junior division of Falu IF , for whose senior team he made his debut in the then second-rate Division 2 in the 1971/72 season . The winger then moved to the U20 juniors of Leksands IF , for whose professional team he was active from 1973 to 1977 - first in Division 1 and from the 1975/76 season in their successor league Elitserien . With Leksand he won the Swedish championship title in the 1974/75 season . From 1977 to 1981 he played for Leksand's league rivals AIK Solna and was elected to the Swedish All-Star Team in 1978.

The following five years Lundholm spent with the Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League . They had already selected him as a member of the World Hockey Association in the 1975 WHA Amateur Draft in the 13th round as a total of 166 players. In the 1985/86 season , the left shooter ran parallel to the game operation with the Winnipeg Jets for his ex-club AIK Solna in the Elitserien. With the team he rose as the bottom of the table, beaten off in the now second-class Division 1. In the 1986/87 season he succeeded in direct resurgence with AIK, after which he ended his career at the age of 32.

International

For Sweden , Lundholm took part in the junior division at the U19 European Junior Championships in 1974 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 1974 and 1975 . At the U19 European Championship in 1974 he won the gold medal with his team and the bronze medal at the U20 World Cup in 1975.

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 1976 , 1977 , 1978 and 1979 World Championships . He also competed for Sweden at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and 1981 at the Canada Cup . At the 1977 World Championships, he and his team won the silver medal, the 1976 and 1979 World Championships and the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, the bronze medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 1975 Swedish champion with Leksands IF
• 1978 Swedish All-Star Team
• 1987 Promotion to the Elitserien with AIK Solna

International

• 1974 gold medal at the U19 European Junior Championship
• 1975 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1976 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1977 silver medal at the world championship
• 1979 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1980 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	5	275	48	95	143	72
NHL playoffs	4th	14th	3	4th	7th	14th
Elitserien main round	7th	212	73	92	165	173
Elitserien Playoffs	4th	20th	9	11	20th	24

Web links

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