Peter Andersson (ice hockey player, 1965)

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Peter Andersson (ice hockey player, 1965)
Date of birth August 29, 1965
place of birth Örebro , Sweden
size 183 cm
Weight 90 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1983 , 4th lap, 73rd position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1981-1983 Örebro IK
1983-1989 Färjestad BK
1989-1992 Malmö IF
1992-1994 New York Rangers
1994 Florida panthers
1994-1996 Malmö IF
1996-1997 Düsseldorfer EG
1997-2001 HC Lugano
2001-2005 Malmo Redhawks

Anders Bengt Peter Andersson (born August 29, 1965 in Örebro ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current coach and functionary, who worked for the New York Rangers and Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League from 1981 to 2005 has played. Most recently, he was an assistant coach at HC Lugano in the National League A . His sons Calle and Rasmus are also professional ice hockey players.

Career

Peter Andersson began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Örebro IK , for whose professional team he was active from 1981 to 1983 in Division 1, which was still second at the time. Following the 1982/83 season, in which he had scored 20 points scorer in 25 games, including ten goals, he was voted Sweden's best junior ice hockey player. In addition, the New York Rangers became aware of him, who selected him in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft in the fourth round as a total of 73rd player. Initially, however, the defender stayed in his Swedish homeland, where he played from 1983 to 1989 for Färjestad BK in the Elitserien , the highest Swedish division. With the team from Karlstad he won the Swedish championship title in 1986 and 1988 , and in the 1986/87 season he was also runner-up with his team.

In the summer of 1989 Andersson signed a contract with the second division Malmö IF , with which he rose straight away in the 1989/90 season in the Elitserien and two years later even won their championship title. After participating in the Olympics in 1992, the New York Rangers, who still owned the rights to the player, ordered him to North America. There he could not finally prevail in the National Hockey League , so that in one and a half seasons for the Rangers he was only in 39 games on the ice, in which he was able to score 17 points scorer. On March 21, 1994, the Swede was finally handed over to the Florida Panthers shortly before the end of the trade deadline in exchange for a nine-round vote for the 1994 NHL Entry Draft . By the end of the season, he completed eight more games for the team from Florida before returning to Malmö after the end of the season.

From 1994 to 1996 Andersson was at Malmö IF in the Elitserien, where he ended the 1995/96 season with Düsseldorfer EG , with which he was German champion straight away . After another year with the Rhinelander, he signed a contract with HC Lugano , for which he played in the Swiss National League A from 1997 to 2001 . During this period he won the Swiss championship title with Lugano in the 1998/99 season . Most recently, the left shooter played again for Malmö in the Elitserien from 2001 to 2005, where he was team captain in the 2004/05 season . He then ended his active career at the age of 40.

After his career ended, the former NHL player stayed with the Malmö Redhawks, for whom he worked as a team manager from 2005 to 2008. He then was general manager of the club for a year, where he once again put on the ice skate for the club in the 2008/09 season in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan . From the 2009/10 season he was head coach at his hometown club Örebro HK and made it to the Elitserien in 2013. He then left the club and was hired by HC Lugano as an assistant coach before he was fired together with Patrick Fischer in October 2015 .

International

For Sweden , Andersson took part in the junior division of the U18 European Junior Championships in 1982 and 1983, as well as the U20 Junior World Championships in 1983 , 1984 and 1985 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 1993 , 1994 and 2001 World Championships , as well as at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1983 Swedish junior ice hockey player of the year
  • 1986 Swedish champion with the Färjestad BK
  • 1987 Swedish runner-up with the Färjestad BK
  • 1988 Swedish champion with the Färjestad BK
  • 1988 Most scorer points of all Elitserien defenders
  • 1990 Promotion to the Elitserien with Malmö IF
  • 1991 Spengler Cup All-Star Team
  • 1992 Swedish champion with the Malmö IF

International

  • 1982 gold medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
  • 1993 silver medal at the world championship

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 2 47 6th 13 19th 20th
NHL playoffs - - - - - -
Elitserien main round 14th 510 88 191 279 548
Elitserien Playoffs 8th 51 14th 26th 40 72
Elitserien-Kval-series 2 18th 2 4th 6th 14th
DEL main round 2 50 12 24 36 60
DEL playoffs - - - - - -
NLA main round 4th 153 34 96 130 150
NLA playoffs 4th 48 10 45 55 71

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeanette Kuster: HC Lugano fires coach Patrick Fischer. In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 22, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Andersson, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andersson, Peter Anders Bengt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Örebro , Sweden