Stefan Örnskog Explained

Played For:HV71 (SEL)
JYP (SM-liiga)
Position:Centre
Shoots:Left
Height Ft:5
Height In:11
Weight Lb:176
Ntl Team:SWE
Birth Date:4 April 1969
Birth Place:Jönköping, Sweden
Career Start:1987
Career End:2001

Stefan Bror Karl Örnskog (born 4 April 1969) is a Swedish ice hockey player whose professional career as a left wing/centre lasted from 1987 to 2001 and was capped with a gold medal at the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics in neighboring Norway, as well as with a silver and a bronze medal at the World Championships.

Playing career

A native of Jönköping, the capital of Jönköping County in southern Sweden's Småland province, Örnskog enjoyed a 14-season career, playing 12 of them for his home town club HV71 in the country's top elite league, Elitserien. The 1994–95 season and part of the 1999–2000 season was spent in Finland playing for JYP in the SM-liiga.[1] On 26 December 2001, Örnskogs's jersey, no. 15, along with Fredrik Stillman's no. 14, was retired during a ceremony before a match against Frölunda HC in Kinnarps Arena.[2]

Awards

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

  Regular season Playoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPtsPIMGPGAPtsPIM
1987–88HV71SEL13123020000
1988–89HV71SEL19167230000
1989–90HV71SEL391215278
1990–91HV71SEL39159241021120
1991–92HV71SEL401215271031012
1992–93HV71SEL368152320
1993–94HV71SEL3815163128
1994–95HV71SEL325111661348124
1995–96HV71SEL3259148
1996–97HV71SEL451427412052130
1997–98HV71SEL43910191650446
1998–99JYPSM-l32511168
1999–2000JYPSM-l174590
1999–2000HV71SEL252911831012
2000–01HV71SEL41761316
SEL totals442106150256152369142314
SM-l totals49916258

International

YearTeamEvent GPGAPtsPIM
1989SwedenWJC72130
1994SwedenOG82022
1994SwedenWC81232
1995SwedenWC81342
Senior totals244596

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stefan Örnskog . Elite Prospects . 25 October 2006.
  2. Web site: Tröjnummer . HV71.se . Swedish . 25 October 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061022001655/http://www.hv71.se/stats_trojnummer.asp . 22 October 2006.