Stefan Örnskog

{{short description|Swedish ice hockey player (born 1969)}}

{{Infobox Ice Hockey Player

| image =

| image_size =

| 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 = {{birth date and age|1969|4|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Jönköping, Sweden

| career_start = 1987

| career_end = 2001

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Sport|Men's ice hockey}}

{{Medal|Country|{{SWE}}}}

{{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}}

{{Medal|Gold|1994 Lillehammer|Team competition}}

{{Medal|WorldChampionships}}

{{Medal|Silver|1995 Sweden|Team competition}}

{{Medal|Bronze|1994 Italy|Team competition}}

}}

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.{{cite web | title=Stefan Örnskog | publisher=Elite Prospects | url=http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=1812 | accessdate=25 October 2006}} 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.{{cite web | title=Tröjnummer | publisher=HV71.se | url=http://www.hv71.se/stats_trojnummer.asp | language=Swedish | accessdate=25 October 2006 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061022001655/http://www.hv71.se/stats_trojnummer.asp |archivedate = 22 October 2006}}

Awards

  • Gold medal at the Winter Olympics in 1994.
  • Bronze medal at the World Championships in 1994.
  • Silver medal at the World Championships in 1995.
  • Elitserien champion with HV71 in 1995.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  

! colspan="5" | Regular season

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  

! colspan="5" | Playoffs

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! Season

! Team

! League

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

1987–88

| HV71

| SEL

| 13

| 1

| 2

| 3

| 0

| 2

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1988–89

| HV71

| SEL

| 19

| 1

| 6

| 7

| 2

| 3

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

1989–90

| HV71

| SEL

| 39

| 12

| 15

| 27

| 8

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1990–91

| HV71

| SEL

| 39

| 15

| 9

| 24

| 10

| 2

| 1

| 1

| 2

| 0

1991–92

| HV71

| SEL

| 40

| 12

| 15

| 27

| 10

| 3

| 1

| 0

| 1

| 2

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1992–93

| HV71

| SEL

| 36

| 8

| 15

| 23

| 20

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

1993–94

| HV71

| SEL

| 38

| 15

| 16

| 31

| 28

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1994–95

| HV71

| SEL

| 32

| 5

| 11

| 16

| 6

| 13

| 4

| 8

| 12

| 4

1995–96

| HV71

| SEL

| 32

| 5

| 9

| 14

| 8

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1996–97

| HV71

| SEL

| 45

| 14

| 27

| 41

| 20

| 5

| 2

| 1

| 3

| 0

1997–98

| HV71

| SEL

| 43

| 9

| 10

| 19

| 16

| 5

| 0

| 4

| 4

| 6

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1998–99

| JYP

| SM-l

| 32

| 5

| 11

| 16

| 8

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

1999–2000

| JYP

| SM-l

| 17

| 4

| 5

| 9

| 0

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1999–2000

| HV71

| SEL

| 25

| 2

| 9

| 11

| 8

| 3

| 1

| 0

| 1

| 2

2000–01

| HV71

| SEL

| 41

| 7

| 6

| 13

| 16

| —

| —

| —

| —

| —

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | SEL totals

! 442

! 106

! 150

! 256

! 152

! 36

! 9

! 14

! 23

! 14

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan="3" | SM-l totals

! 49

! 9

! 16

! 25

! 8

! —

! —

! —

! —

! —

=International=

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! Year

! Team

! Event

! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |  

! GP

! G

! A

! Pts

! PIM

1989

| Sweden

| WJC

| 7

| 2

| 1

| 3

| 0

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1994

| Sweden

| OG

| 8

| 2

| 0

| 2

| 2

1994

| Sweden

| WC

| 8

| 1

| 2

| 3

| 2

bgcolor="#f0f0f0"

| 1995

| Sweden

| WC

| 8

| 1

| 3

| 4

| 2

bgcolor="#e0e0e0"

! colspan=3 | Senior totals

! 24

! 4

! 5

! 9

! 6

References