Nicklas Lidström
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2014 | |
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Hockey Hall of Fame , 2015 | |
Date of birth | April 28, 1970 |
place of birth | Västerås , Sweden |
Nickname | Lids, Nick, Norris |
size | 185 cm |
Weight | 86 kg |
position | defender |
number | # 5 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1989 , 3rd lap, 53rd position Detroit Red Wings |
Career stations | |
until 1991 | VIK Västerås HK |
1991-2012 | Detroit Red Wings |
Nicklas Erik Lidström (born April 28, 1970 in Västerås ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who played 1827 games for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League on the position of defender during his active career between 1987 and 2012 . Lidström is a member of the Triple Gold Club , the Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame . He has been named the League's Most Valuable Defender seven times with the James Norris Memorial Trophy . In 2008 he became the first European captain to win the Stanley Cup , which he won four times with Detroit in his career.
Career
Nicklas Lidström began his career at VIK Västerås HK , where he was used for the first time with the professionals in the second-rate Allsvenskan in the 1987/88 season and helped with the promotion to the Elitserien . In the following season he was part of the regular Västerås squad and was able to attract the attention of the North American teams through his performances, so that he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 1989 by the Detroit Red Wings in the third round at position 53.
Lidström played in Sweden for two more years and was able to improve his skills especially on the offensive. He also won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in 1990 and a year later won the gold medal at the World Seniors Championship with the Swedish national team .
Just a few months later, he made his NHL debut for the Detroit Red Wings in the fall of 1991 . Lidström immediately prevailed in the team and in the league. The Swedish defender set the tone especially on the offensive with eleven goals and 49 assists, but the Calder Memorial Trophy for the best rookie of the season went to Russian striker Pawel Bure . Lidström took second place in the poll and was elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team .
He then played two more good seasons at the side of his experienced defender colleague Paul Coffey for the Red Wings and returned to his hometown club Västerås IK in autumn 1994, as the start of the NHL season 1994/95 was delayed due to a lockout , belonged to the January 1995 but back to the Detroit squad. This season he also proved his qualities for the first time in the playoffs and was one of the best scorers in the finals when the Red Wings lost in the final of the Stanley Cup to the New Jersey Devils .
In 1995/96 Lidström set a new personal record with 67 points and, through his defensive game, contributed to the fact that the Red Wings conceded the fewest goals in the league. In the playoffs, however, they had to admit defeat in the final of the Western Conference of the Colorado Avalanche . In the following year, the great success finally came. In the Stanley Cup final, the Detroit Red Wings met the Philadelphia Flyers and Nicklas Lidström scored after three games won the 1–0 lead in the fourth game, which laid the foundation for the 2–1 success against the Flyers and the first Stanley Cup -Triumph of the Red Wings for 42 years.
At the beginning of the 1997/98 season he was appointed alternate captain of the Detroit Red Wings. He was able to build on the successful previous season with the team, won the Stanley Cup again and was fourth-best scorer in the playoffs with six goals and 13 assists . He was also nominated for the first time for the James Norris Memorial Trophy as best defender of the NHL, but Rob Blake won and was elected to the NHL First All-Star Team .
Lidström established himself from now on among the best defenders in the league, was re-elected to the First All-Star Team in the following two seasons and was nominated for the James Norris Memorial Trophy both times. The team success was initially missing. There were also rumors that he would be leaving North America so that his sons could go to school in Sweden.
But Lidström stayed in Detroit and played one of his best seasons with 71 points, making it the Red Wings' second best scorer. In the playoffs, however, he surprisingly failed with his team in the first round at the Los Angeles Kings . Even so, he was awarded the James Norris Memorial Trophy for the first time as the best defender in the NHL.
In the 2001/02 season , the Detroit Red Wings dominated the regular season of the NHL and finished with 15 points ahead of the runner-up Boston Bruins . As in previous years, Lidström was one of the central figures of the team and with 50 assists was the Red Wings' best goal setter. Also in this year's playoffs, he continued his good performance on the defensive as well as on the offensive. The Red Wings defeated the Vancouver Canucks , the St. Louis Blues and their arch-rival the Colorado Avalanche before facing the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup Finals . After they started with a home defeat in the final round, they won the next games and thus also the third Stanley Cup since 1997. Lidström contributed five goals and eleven assists in the 23 playoff games and was the first European with the Conn Smythe Trophy awarded as most valuable player of the playoffs. In addition, there was his second James Norris Memorial Trophy as best defender and the fifth appointment to the First All-Star Team in a row.
In the following season , the Red Wings were again among the best teams of the regular season, but the title defense failed in the playoffs in the first round with a 0-4 defeat in the series against the Anaheim Ducks . Lidström was only the third best scorer among defenders in the regular season behind Al MacInnis and Sergei Gontschar , but led them with a plus / minus value of +40 and again won the James Norris Memorial Trophy.
2003/04 Lidström played the worst season of his career. Although the Red Wings took first place in the NHL, the Swede could not keep up with the best defenders in the league. After the end in the second playoff round, he joined the Swedish national team at the World Cup and played his first game in the semi-final victory over the USA . In the final, however, they failed against Team Canada .
After the World Cup, Lidström played for Sweden at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey , but then took a one-year break due to a lockout due to the failure of the entire 2004/05 NHL season .
For the 2005/06 season he returned to the Red Wings, who again dominated the league, but failed early in the playoffs. Lidström set a new personal record with 80 points in 80 games, led the defenders as the best scorer and was named the best defender in the NHL for the fourth time. In February 2006 he took part in the Winter Olympics in Turin and won the gold medal. In the final against Finland he scored the 3–2 winning goal at the beginning of the last third.
In the summer of 2006, the long-time team captain of the Red Wings, Steve Yzerman , announced the end of his career and Nicklas Lidström took his place.
As captain of the Red Wings, he led the team after a good regular season to the final of the Western Conference, where they were subject to the Anaheim Ducks. With four goals and 14 assists in 18 games, he was Detroit's top scorer in the playoffs. After the season, the NHL distinguished him for the fifth time with the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the best defender, previously only Doug Harvey , Bobby Orr and Ray Bourque .
In the 2007/08 season he won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings as the first European captain in NHL history.
Nicklas Lidström is one of the best defenders in NHL history due to his all-round abilities on the defensive as well as on the offensive. In addition, from 1999 to 2003 he was nominated five times in a row for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy , which the player receives who has a high sporting standard combined with fairness. Lidström has played 1,412 games in 18 seasons and has only missed 32 games due to injuries.
Since winning the gold medal at the Winter Olympics, Lidström has belonged to the small circle of the Triple Gold Club , which includes the players who have won the World Cup, Olympic gold and the Stanley Cup.
At the beginning of June, the Detroit Red Wings announced that Lidström would renew his contract for another year. Previously, the defender had left his future open after his team's early playoffs. On December 15, 2010, he scored a hat trick against the St. Louis Blues for the first time in his career. After the end of the 2010/11 regular season , which Lidström ended with a record of 62 scorer points and thereby became the oldest defender in NHL history with over 60 points, he received another nomination for the Lady together with Loui Eriksson and Martin St. Louis Byng Memorial Trophy.
In June 2011, the defender re-signed a one-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings. On May 31, 2012 Lidström announced his retirement after 20 seasons in the National Hockey League.
In August 2013, the Detroit Red Wings announced that Nicklas Lidström's number 5 would be suspended from the Colorado Avalanche game on March 6, 2014 .
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in June 2015 .
Achievements and Awards
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International
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Others
- 2006 admission to the Triple Gold Club
- 2014 induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame
- 2014 admission to the Swedish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
- 2015 induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame
Career statistics
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1987/88 | VIK Västerås HK | Division 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||
1988/89 | VIK Västerås HK | Elitserien | 34 | 1 | 6th | 7th | 4th | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
1989/90 | VIK Västerås HK | Elitserien | 39 | 8th | 8th | 16 | 14th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
1990/91 | VIK Västerås HK | Elitserien | 38 | 4th | 19th | 23 | 2 | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | ||
1991/92 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 80 | 11 | 49 | 60 | 22nd | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
1992/93 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 84 | 7th | 34 | 41 | 28 | 7th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
1993/94 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 84 | 10 | 46 | 56 | 26th | 7th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
1994/95 | Västerås IK | Elitserien | 13 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1994/95 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 43 | 10 | 16 | 26th | 6th | 18th | 4th | 12 | 16 | 8th | ||
1995/96 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 81 | 17th | 50 | 67 | 20th | 19th | 5 | 9 | 14th | 10 | ||
1996/97 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 79 | 15th | 42 | 57 | 30th | 20th | 2 | 6th | 8th | 2 | ||
1997/98 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 80 | 17th | 42 | 59 | 18th | 22nd | 6th | 13 | 19th | 8th | ||
1998/99 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 81 | 14th | 43 | 57 | 14th | 10 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4th | ||
1999/00 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 81 | 20th | 53 | 73 | 18th | 9 | 2 | 4th | 6th | 4th | ||
2000/01 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 82 | 15th | 56 | 71 | 18th | 6th | 1 | 7th | 8th | 0 | ||
2001/02 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 78 | 9 | 50 | 59 | 20th | 23 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 2 | ||
2002/03 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 82 | 18th | 44 | 62 | 38 | 4th | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
2003/04 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 81 | 10 | 28 | 38 | 18th | 12 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 4th | ||
2004/05 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | not played because of lockout | |||||||||||
2005/06 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 80 | 16 | 64 | 80 | 50 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
2006/07 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 80 | 13 | 49 | 62 | 46 | 18th | 4th | 14th | 18th | 6th | ||
2007/08 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 76 | 10 | 60 | 70 | 40 | 22nd | 3 | 10 | 13 | 14th | ||
2008/09 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 78 | 16 | 43 | 59 | 30th | 21st | 4th | 12 | 16 | 6th | ||
2009/10 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 82 | 9 | 40 | 49 | 24 | 12 | 4th | 6th | 10 | 2 | ||
2010/11 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 82 | 16 | 46 | 62 | 20th | 11 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 4th | ||
2011/12 | Detroit Red Wings | NHL | 70 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Division 1 total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6th | ||||
Elitserien total | 124 | 15th | 43 | 58 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6th | ||||
NHL overall | 1564 | 264 | 878 | 1142 | 514 | 263 | 54 | 129 | 183 | 76 |
International
Represented Sweden at:
( 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
- Nicklas Lidström at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Nicklas Lidström at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Nicklas Lidström at hockeydb.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on redwings.nhl.com from June 1, 2010 (accessed June 2, 2010)
- ↑ Red Wings, Lidstrom agree to one-year deal, NHL.com from June 20, 2011
- ↑ Brian Hedger: Lidstrom retires from NHL. National Hockey League , May 31, 2012, accessed May 31, 2012 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lidström, Nicklas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lidstrom, Nicklas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Västerås |