Pär Mårts

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Pär Mårts
Date of birth April 30, 1953
place of birth Falun , Sweden
position center
number # 22
Career stations
1971-1974 VIK Västerås HK
1974-1980 AIK Solna
1980-1985 VIK Västerås HK

Pär Mårts (born April 30, 1953 in Falun ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current coach . Since 2010 he has been the head coach of the Swedish national ice hockey team .

Career

As a player

Mårts began his career in 1971 with VIK Västerås HK in the Swedish third division. At the end of the 1971/72 season, the striker rose to Division 1 with the club . In this Mårts was the best scorer of VIK Västerås HK during the 1973/74 season. For the following season the Swede received a contract with the capital club AIK Solna . Over the next six years he established himself with the club in the Elitserien and was Swedish runner-up in the 1977/78 season. In the seasons from 1975/76 to 1979/80 he completed 174 games in the Elitserien, scored 121 points (63 goals, 58 assists ) and received 63 penalty minutes. Mårts spent the last five seasons of his playing career at VIK Västerås HK in Division 1.

As a trainer

Mårts has been working as an ice hockey coach since 1986. During the 1986/87 season he served as the head coach of VIK Västerås HK. Later he was also a lecturer at an ice hockey school in Västerås, before he was again behind the gang at VIK Västerås HK from 1988 to 1991. This was followed by an engagement as assistant coach of the Swedish U20 national team, before Mårts was promoted to assistant coach of the Swedish national team in 1992 .

Pär Mårts (right) after winning the 2013 World Cup gold medal .

In 1995 he returned to VIK Västerås HK again to serve as head coach. In the 2003/04 season he won the Swedish championship as head coach with HV 71 Jönköping . Until 2007 he worked as a coach at HV71 before Mårts was appointed head coach of the Swedish U19 and U20 national ice hockey team for the 2007/08 season. In 2010 he took over the Swedish national team, which won the silver medal at the 2011 World Cup . At the 2013 World Championships in Stockholm and Helsinki he won the gold medal with the Tre Kronors .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1971-72 VIK Västerås HK Division 2 16 19th 14th 33 - - - - -
1972-73 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 16 4th 5 9 2 - - - - -
1973-74 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 27 22nd 17th 39 8th - - - - -
1974-75 AIK Division 1 26th 14th 15th 29 0 - - - - -
1975-76 AIK Elitserien 36 11 12 23 7th - - - - -
1976-77 AIK Elitserien 32 14th 12 26th 4th - - - - -
1977-78 AIK Elitserien 36 17th 11 28 16 6th 3 2 5 0
1978-79 AIK Elitserien 36 6th 9 15th 18th - - - - -
1979-80 AIK Elitserien 34 15th 14th 29 18th - - - - -
1980-81 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 26th 25th 23 48 14th 3 1 2 3 6th
1981-82 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 32 17th 23 40 34 4th 0 2 2 2
1982-83 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 28 14th 26th 40 21st 5 4th 4th 8th 4th
1983-84 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 27 15th 26th 41 14th 9 2 2 4th 6th
1984-85 VIK Västerås HK Division 1 25th 9 9 18th 8th - - - - -
Elitserien total 174 63 58 121 63 6th 3 2 5 0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ swehockey.se, fact about Pär Mårts

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personal data
SURNAME Mårts, Pär
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marts, Par; Marts, pair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Falun