Christer Olsson

Sweden Christer Olsson


Date of birth	July 24, 1970
place of birth	Arboga , Sweden
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	1993 , 11th lap, 275th position St. Louis Blues

Career stations

until 1989	IFK Arboga
1989-1992	Mora IK
1992-1995	Brynäs IF
1995-1996	St. Louis Blues
1996-1997	Ottawa Senators
1997-1999	Västra Frölunda HC
1999-2000	EC KAC
2000-2002	Brynäs IF
2002-2005	Leksands IF

Christer Olsson (born July 24, 1970 in Arboga ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who played for the St. Louis Blues and Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League from 1988 to 2005 . Since 2014 he has been the head coach at HC TWK Innsbruck from the EBEL .

Career

As a player

Christer Olsson began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown with IFK Arboga , for which he was active in the 1988/89 season in Division 2 , which was still third at the time . The defender then played for three years for the second division team Mora IK and Brynäs IF from the Elitserien . With Brynäs he won the Swedish Championship in the 1992/93 season , whereupon he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 in the eleventh round as a total of 275 players by the St. Louis Blues . For the Blues he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1995/96 season , scoring two goals in 29 games and providing eight assists in his rookie year . At the same time, he was used in 39 games for the St. Louis farm team , the Worcester IceCats in the American Hockey League .

After Olsson had started the 1996/97 season in St. Louis, he was given to the Ottawa Senators on November 27, 1996 in exchange for the Slovak Pavol Demitra . The left-handed shooter played 25 games for the Canadians, scoring five points before returning to his home in Sweden after this season. There he spent two seasons for Västra Frölunda before he was committed in the 1999/2000 season by EC KAC from the Austrian ice hockey league , with which he was both champion and won the Interliga. The 1998 world champion then received a contract with his ex-club Brynäs IF, for which he played for two seasons before moving to its league rival Leksands IF in the summer of 2002 , with whom he was relegated to the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan in 2004 . Following the 2004/05 season, in which he achieved direct promotion to the Elitserien with Leksands as a second division champion, the former NHL player ended his career at the age of 34.

International

For Sweden , Olsson took part in the 1995 , 1998 , 1999 and 2001 World Championships .

As a trainer

Sweden Christer Olsson

Coaching stations

2005-2011	Leksands IF
2012-2014	EC KAC
since 2014	HC TWK Innsbruck

Christer Olsson (left) and Dieter Kalt (right), September 2013

In 2012, Olsson became Christian Weber's assistant coach at EC KAC from the EBEL . At the end of December 2012 Christian Weber was released and Olsson took over the head coach position at the EC KAC. At the end of the 2012/13 season he won the EBEL championship with the KAC .

In March 2014, Olsson was introduced as the new head coach of HC Innsbruck .

Achievements and Awards

1993 Swedish champion with Brynäs IF
1995 Swedish runner-up with Brynäs IF
2000 Austrian champion with the EC KAC
2000 Interliga win with the EC KAC
2002 Elitserien All-Star-Game
2005 Champion of the Hockey Allsvenskan and promotion to the Elitserien with Leksands IF
2013 Austrian champion with the EC KAC (as head coach)

International

1995 silver medal at the world championship
1995 World Cup best defender
1998 gold medal at the world championship
1999 bronze medal at the world championship
2001 bronze medal at the world championship

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	2	56	4th	12	16	24
Playoffs	1	3	0	0	0	0

Web links

Commons : Christer Olsson - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Christer Olsson at legendsofhockey.net (English)
Christer Olsson at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

↑ Kleine Zeitung , No comparison with the KAC from back then - Christer Olsson (42) returned to Klagenfurt as an assistant trainer ( memento from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

↑ erstebankliga.at, Christer Olsson - new Haie head coach ( memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , March 16, 2014 @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Olsson, Christer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arboga , Sweden

[1] Kleine Zeitung , No comparison with the KAC from back then - Christer Olsson (42) returned to Klagenfurt as an assistant trainer ( memento from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )