Hardy Nilsson

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SwedenSweden  Hardy Nilsson Ice hockey player
Hardy Nilsson
Date of birth June 23, 1947
place of birth Skelleftea , Sweden
size 182 cm
Weight 86 kg
position striker
Career stations
until 1978 Skellefteå AIK
1978-1979 Cologne EC
1979-1982 Örebro IK

Hardy Nilsson (born June 23, 1947 in Skellefteå ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

As a player

Hardy Nilsson began his professional career in 1965 in his hometown at the local club Skellefteå AIK . After the striker had played the first two years with the club in the 1st division, at that time the top division in Sweden, the club was relegated for the first time. Although they managed to get back up straight away, they kept relegating in the following years. Until 1974, Nilsson changed the league with the club every year, commuting between the 1st and 2nd division. After one had made the promotion one more time, Skellefteå established itself again in the 1st division, which was replaced in 1975 by the Elitserien .

1978 Nilsson became Swedish champion with Skellefteå. In the final, Skellefteå won against AIK Stockholm in the third and decisive game 4: 3. In his role as team captain, Nilsson is considered to be a defining player in winning the title and has since enjoyed the status of a cult player at the SAIK.

For the 1978/79 season Nilsson moved to Germany to the Cologne EC , where he played in the 1st Bundesliga . Although he only stayed in Cologne for a year, he immediately became German champion with the KEC , was elected to the league's all-star team and received the Xaver-Nonsense Trophy as the player with the most assists. After the year in Germany, he moved back to Sweden, where he played for Örebro IK for three years before ending his active career in 1982.

As a trainer

At the beginning of his coaching career he returned to the place of his greatest success as a player. In 1985 the Kölner Haie hired him as the successor to Josef Golonka . Just like as a player, he achieved great success in his first year and celebrated the championship with the Haien. In the 1986/87 season he succeeded with the KEC, as the first team since 1971 to defend the title. And also in the third year with Nilsson on the gang, the Haie won the championship. After that he stayed for another four years, with the greatest successes in this time being third place in the European Cup in 1989 and the runner-up in 1991. For the 1993/94 season , Nilsson's engagement at EC Hedos Munich began . He won the German championship in 1994 with the team, which has many stars. After the founding of the DEL in the 1994/95 season , the club, renamed Maddogs Munich, quickly crashed. Shortly after the start of the season, the game was stopped and bankruptcy proceedings were opened against the club.

Therefore, in 1995, Nilsson moved to Düsseldorfer EG , which he managed for two years as the successor to Hans Zach . He also won a championship title in Düsseldorf in 1996. From 2000 to 2004 he was the coach of the Swedish national team. During this time he won a medal with the team at every world championship. But he couldn't win a title with the Tre Kronors . In 2000 he was voted best coach in Sweden for the first time and named Årets Coach . He did the same again ten years later. After he was replaced as national coach, he accepted an offer from the Austrian first division club Red Bulls Salzburg in 2005 . With the Salzburg team he reached the play-offs as the best team in the preliminary round in the 2005/06 season , but was defeated there in the final by the EC VSV . The following year he was again in the final against the VSV with the Salzburg team - but this time he won the title. After Salzburg, his successor was Pierre Pagé , he switched to Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Elitserien as head coach .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

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Commons : Hardy Nilsson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Hardy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Skellefteå