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Alfredshems IK (1921–1963) MoDo AIK (1964–86) MoDo Hockeyklubb (1987–1999) MODO Hockey (since 1999) |
Location | Örnsköldsvik , Sweden |
Club colors | red, white, green |
league | HockeyAllsvenskan |
Venue | Fjallraven Center |
capacity | 7,600 seats |
executive Director | Johan Widebro |
Head coach | Ville Nieminen |
captain | Tobias Enström |
2014/15 season | 12th place, relegation won |
MODO Hockey , actually MoDo Hockeyklubb , is a Swedish ice hockey club from Örnsköldsvik in Ångermanland, which was founded in 1921 as Alfredshems IK. The men's team has been playing in the second-class HockeyAllsvenskan since 2016 , after MODO had previously played continuously in the first-class Svenska hockey club. The Fjällräven Center has been the club's venue since 2006. The club 's women's team plays in the SDHL .
The male professionals won the Swedish championship twice (1979 and 2007) and the runner-up four times (1994, 1999, 2000 and 2002). The women's team won the Swedish championship in 2012.
history
1921 in Örnsköldsvik the Alfredshems IK founded in 1963 MoDo AIK renamed. The abbreviation MoDo comes from the main sponsor at the time, Mo och Domsjö AB . In 1979, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2007 MoDo reached the final of the Swedish championship, in 1979 and 2007 the team became champions. In 2016 the club was relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan .
In 1987 the entire club was divided into the Modo HK ice hockey club and the MoDo FF football club. The cross-country skiing section joined the IoFK Hägglund.
The club is considered one of Sweden's talent forges, as a high proportion of all Swedish players in the National Hockey League come from this club.
From the 2011/2012 season, a MODO hockey museum was to be built in the Fjällräven Center in Örnsköldsvik. Despite a loan from Örnsköldsvik municipality of SEK 4 million, the club had to postpone the project because the club was unable to raise its own contribution. Work on the museum in Fjällräven Center began in August 2014. The exhibition shows the history of MODO Hockey from 1921 to the present day.
In the 2019/20 season Modo was qualified as runner-up for the playoff games for promotion to the SHL, but the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden .
successes
- 1979 winning the main round of the Elitserien
- 1979 Le Mat Cup
- 1999 win the main round of the Elitserien
- 2007 Le Mat Cup
Player trophies
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Trainer since 1951
Period | Head coach | Seasons |
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1951-1973 | Carlabel Berglund | 22nd |
1973-1975 | Lennart Höglander | 2 |
1975-1977 | Lars Öhman | 2 |
1977-1983 | Tommy Sandlin | 6th |
1983-1985 | Hardy Nilsson | 2 |
1985-1987 | Håkan Nygren | 2 |
1987-1989 | Nordin is different | 2 |
1989-1990 | Ulf Thors | 1 |
1990 − autumn 1991 | Jan-Åke Andersson | 1.5 |
Fall 1991–1994 | Kent Forsberg | 2.5 |
1994-1997 | Leif Boork | 3 |
1997-2001 | Per Bäckman | 4th |
2001− autumn 2002 | Jim Brithén | 1.5 |
2002 autumn − 2004 | Per-Arne Alexandersson | 1.5 |
2004-2005 | Kent Forsberg | 1 |
2005-2008 | Harald Lückner | 3 |
2008-2009 | Harri Rindell | 1 |
2009 − January 2010 | Miloslav Hořava senior | 0.5 |
January 2010 − April 2010 | Hannu Aravirta | 0.5 |
April 2010 − April 2011 | Charles Berglund | 1 |
2011-2013 | Ulf Samuelsson | 2 |
2013 – January 2015 | Forsberg is different | 1.5 |
January 2015 – March 2015 | Per-Erik Johnsson | 0.25 |
April 2015 – November 2015 | Larry Huras | 0.5 |
November 2015 – February 2017 | Andreas Johansson | 1.5 |
April 2017 – March 2018 | Hans Särkijärvi | 1 |
April 2018 – April 2020 | Bjorn Hellkvist | 2 |
June 2020– | Ville Nieminen |
player
Blocked jersey numbers
number | player | position | Period in the club |
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3 | Mattias Timander | defender | 1993-1996, 2004-2011 |
4th | Nils Johansson | defender | 1958-1970 |
8th | Per Lundqvist | Left wing | 1968-1983 |
9 | Magnus Wernblom | Right wing | 1990-2004, 2007-2009 |
16 | Hedberg is different | Right wing | 1967-1972 |
21st | Peter Forsberg | center | 1990-1995, 2005, 2009-2010 |
39 | Per Svartvadet | center | 1992-1999, 2003-2009 |
Known players
Although Örnsköldsvik is a small town of around 33,000 people, the town has produced numerous talents. The city has six ice rinks, with the Fjällräven Center regularly seeing 7,000 spectators at MODO home games, which makes up almost a quarter of the population.
Anders Hedberg was one of the first Swedes to be successful in the NHL in the 1970s. In the early 1990s, forwards Peter Forsberg and Markus Näslund rose from MODO's junior teams and were selected in 1991 in the NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins in 6th and 16th place overall. They became MODO's first NHL stars. In addition to these two, there were in the 2002/03 season 13 NHL players from Örnsköldsvik itself and seven more who were born and raised within a few kilometers of Örnsköldsvik. Striker Niklas Sundström played alongside Forsberg and Näslund with Modo and was selected eighth in the 1993 New York Rangers' NHL Entry Draft.
Eight years after Forsberg and Naslund, the identical twins, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, were selected in second and third and came to Näslund in Vancouver. In the 2005/06 season, Näslund, Henrik and Daniel finished first, second and third in the Canucks team standings. From the 1998–1999 season to the 2016–17 season, no other Canucks player has led the team, except for Näslund, Henrik or Daniel. In the 2009-10 season, Henrik became the second former Modo player to win the NHL's Art Ross Trophy as the league's top scorer and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's MVP. The next year, his twin brother Daniel Sedin won the Art Ross trophy. This was the first time in NHL history that two brothers won a title in a row.
In the 2008-09 season, defenseman Victor Hedman drew significant attention from the NHL and was eventually voted second in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning. In 2018 he won the James Norris Memorial Trophy as best defender in the league.
In the 2015/16 season, goalkeeper Linus Ullmark made his debut for the Buffalo Sabers in the NHL. In 2019, his former team-mate Victor Olofsson followed him to Buffalo.
The following NHL stars emerged from the MODO youth teams:
- Thomas Gradin
- Victor Hedman
- Markus Näslund
- Peter Forsberg
- Niklas Sundström
- Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin
- Alexander Steen
- Samuel Påhlsson
- Hannu Pikkarainen
- Tommy Salo
- Alexander Bonsaksen
- Victor Olofsson
- Linus Ullmark
- Adrian Kempe
- Mats Zuccarello
- Robert Hägg
- William Nylander
- Dmytro Timashov
- Tomas Jonsson
- Hedberg is different