Kent Johansson (ice hockey player)

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SwedenSweden  Kent Johansson Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 13, 1956
place of birth Katrineholm , Sweden
Nickname Lill-Kenta
size 174 cm
Weight 76 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1973-1982 Huddinge IK
1982-1983 Djurgårdens IF
1983-1989 HC Lugano
1989-1990 Djurgårdens IF
1990-1994 Huddinge IK

Kent Johansson (born April 13, 1956 in Katrineholm ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and coach . Johansson won two Swedish championship titles as an active player with Djurgårdens IF and won the Swiss championship three times in a row with HC Lugano . After ending his career as a professional player, he became head coach, where he achieved his greatest success in 2008 when he won the Swedish championship as the coach of the HV71 .

His brother Mikael Johansson also played ice hockey successfully in Sweden and Switzerland.

Career

As a player

Johansson first played during his junior years at Huddinge IK , for whose first team he made his debut in the second-rate Division 2 in the 1973/74 season . In the following years, in which the striker played with the club after promotion in 1975 mainly in the top division, Division 1 , he became a fixture in the club and developed into one of the most successful scorers in the league. For the 1982/83 season , he switched to Djurgårdens IF in the Elitserien . There he stayed only a year, but won the Swedish championship with the club .

The center then left its home and joined the top Swiss club HC Lugano and in the following years became part of the Grande Lugano , with which it won the Swiss championship three times in a row under coach John Slettvoll . He finished the 1984/85 season with 57 goals as the most successful goalscorer in the National League A and finished third in the league's top scorer list. In the 1986 and 1987 playoffs, Johansson scored the decisive goal for winning the title. In the 1987/88 season Johansson acted as team captain of the Ticino. After another season in the Luganesi shirt , the striker returned to his homeland to Djurgårdens IF; with the club he won another Swedish championship. He let his active career end with his youth club Huddinge IK.

Johansson (back row, 3rd from right) with the head coaches of the Elitserien clubs, 2011

International

For Sweden Johansson took part in the world championships in 1983 in the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1985 in the Czechoslovak capital of Prague . He played a total of 20 World Cup games in which he scored five goals and two assists. He also received six penalty minutes. In 1983, he won the bronze medal at the European Championship , which was held at the same time . At the world championship tournaments, the Tre Kronor placed outside the medal ranks.

SwedenSweden  Kent Johansson
Kent Johansson (ice hockey player)
Coaching stations
1994-1995 Huddinge IK
Switzerland (assistant coach)
1995-1996 Södertälje SK
1998-1999 HC Bolzano
1999-2001 IK Nyköpings NH 90
2001-2002 Djurgårdens IF
2002-2007 Timrå IK
2007-2009 HV71
2009-2010 HC Lugano
2010-2013 Frölunda HC
2013-2016 Örebro HK

As a trainer

After his career as an active player, Johansson started working as a coach. First he took over in the 1994/95 season as head coach at his youth club Huddinge IK. For the following season he moved to league rivals Södertälje SK , after having worked for a short time as the assistant coach of the Swiss national team under his compatriot Hardy Nilsson . For the 1998/99 season he was hired by the Italian first division club HC Bozen , with whom he reached the runner-up at the end of the season.

The Swedes then moved back to his homeland, where he took over the second division club IK Nyköpings NH 90 . After staying there for two years, he accepted an offer from his ex-club Djurgårdens IF to work there as head coach. This engagement was not satisfactory, in the playoff quarter-finals the elimination from the competition took place. Johansson then stood behind the gang for the following five seasons at Timrå IK .

At his next club, the HV71 , he won the Swedish championship with the team in 2008 and was awarded the Årets Coach as Sweden's coach of the year. For the 2009/10 season he was signed by HC Lugano, with whom he had great success as a player. In his only season as head coach of the Ticino, he was relieved of his post in January 2010 after a series of five defeats in a row, his successor in Lugano was the Frenchman Philippe Bozon . Another return to Sweden followed. Johansson initially worked there for three years as head coach of Frölunda HC and then - from November 2013 - four seasons at Örebro HK , where he resigned as head coach during the 2016/17 season - after a weak start to the season in October 2016.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1988 Swiss champion with HC Lugano
  • 1990 Swedish champion with Djurgårdens IF
  • 1999 Italian runner-up with HC Bozen (as head coach)
  • 2008 Swedish champion with HV71 (as head coach)
  • 2008 Årets Coach

International

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1973/74 Huddinge IK Division 2 2 0 0 0
1974/75 Huddinge IK Division 2 21st 10 7th 17th
1975/76 Huddinge IK Division 1 22nd 14th 23 37
1976/77 Huddinge IK Division 1 33 21st 26th 47
1977/78 Huddinge IK Division 1 27 31 10 41 28
1978/79 Huddinge IK Division 1 35 39 26th 65 25th
1979/80 Huddinge IK Division 1 32 30th 20th 50 21st
1980/81 Huddinge IK Division 1 18th 10 11 21st 14th
1981/82 Huddinge IK Division 1 36 33 33 66 20th
1982/83 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 36 20th 17th 37 18th 8th 1 3 4th 6th
1983/84 HC Lugano NLA 39 31 28 59
1984/85 HC Lugano NLA 38 57 19th 76
1985/86 HC Lugano NLA 35 40 39 79 34 4th 9 4th 13 2
1986/87 HC Lugano NLA 35 33 45 78 37 6th 7th 5 12 0
1987/88 HC Lugano NLA 35 32 45 77 37 7th 8th 9 17th 4th
1988/89 HC Lugano NLA 30th 26th 33 59 18th 10 7th 9 16 4th
1989/90 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 32 8th 14th 22nd 10 8th 6th 6th 12 0
1990/91 Huddinge IK Division 1 36 20th 29 49 8th
1991/92 Huddinge IK Division 1 30th 13 26th 39 16
1992/93 Huddinge IK Division 1 35 19th 25th 44 12
1993/94 Huddinge IK Division 1 37 9 15th 24 14th
Division 2 total 23 10 7th 17th
Division 1 total 341 239 244 483 158
Elitserien total 68 28 31 59 28 16 7th 9 16 6th
National League A overall 212 219 209 428 126 27 31 27 58 10

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1983 Sweden WM 4th Place 10 3 1 4th 2
1985 Sweden WM 6th place 10 2 1 3 4th
Men overall 20th 5 2 7th 6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Kent Johansson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johansson released in Lugano. 20min.ch, January 25, 2010, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bozon new Lugano trainer. 20min.ch, January 27, 2010, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Mattias Karlsson, Pelle Strandman: Kenta slutar i Örebro. Aftonbladet , October 4, 2016, accessed March 15, 2020 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Johansson, Kent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lill-Kenta (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Katrineholm , Sweden