Calle Johansson

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Calle Johansson
Date of birth February 14, 1967
place of birth Gothenburg , Sweden
size 181 cm
Weight 92 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1985 , 1st lap, 14th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1983-1985 Västra Frölunda
1985-1987 IF Björklöven
1987-1989 Buffalo Sabers
1989-2003 Washington Capitals
2003-2004 Toronto Maple Leafs

Carl Christian "Calle" Johansson (born February 14, 1967 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current coach , who played for the Buffalo Sabers , Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National from 1983 to 2004 Hockey League . From 2012 to 2014 he was an assistant coach at the Washington Capitals.

Career

Calle Johansson began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at Västra Frölunda , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Elitserien in the 1983/84 season , scoring four goals and four assists in 28 games. After relegating his team to Division 1 , which was still second-rate at the time , the defender missed immediate re-promotion with Frölunda and joined the first division club IF Björklöven in 1985 , with whom he became Swedish champion in the 1986/87 season . In the summer of 1987, the Buffalo Sabers , who had selected him in the first round of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft as the 14th player, ordered the left shooter to North America.

In his rookie year in the National Hockey League Johansson scored 43 scorer points, including four goals, for Buffalo in a total of 77 games in the 1987/88 season. In the course of the following season he was given on March 7, 1989 together with a second-round vote in exchange for Clint Malarchuk , Grant Ledyard and a six- round vote to the Washington Capitals , for which he was on the ice in the following 14 years. Only during the lockout at the beginning of the 1994/95 season, the Swede completed five games for EHC Kloten in the Swiss National League A , for which he booked one goal and two assists. After the world champion of 1991 and 1992 officially announced his retirement in August 2003, he signed a contract as a free agent with the Toronto Maple Leafs again on March 9, 2004 , for which he made six templates in a total of twelve games by the end of the season he quit ice hockey for good at the age of 37. He was only the fifth European to play more than 1,000 games in the NHL.

After the Swede had been assistant coach at Västra Frölunda in the Elitserien for a short time in the 2006/07 season, he was hired by the Washington Capitals in the same position in July 2012. He resigned from this post after the 2013/14 season to return to Sweden for personal reasons.

International

For Sweden Johansson took part in the U20 Junior World Championships in 1986 and 1987 , as well as the World Championships in 1991 and 1992 . He was also in Sweden's squad at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and the 1996 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 17th 1109 119 416 535 519
Playoffs 13 105 12 43 55 44

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personal data
SURNAME Johansson, Calle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johansson, Carl Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg , Sweden