Brynäs IF

This article is about Brynäs IF's men's ice hockey section. For the women's team competing in the SDHL, see Brynäs IF Dam. For the football section of the club, see Brynäs IF Fotboll.

Brynäs IF is a Swedish ice hockey team from Gävle. The club currently plays in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden. The club has played in the top-tier league since 1960, longer than any other team.

Brynäs IF
City	Gävle, Sweden
League	Swedish Hockey League
Founded	12 May 1912; 110 years ago (1912-05-12)
Home arena	Monitor ERP Arena
Colors
General manager	Jennie Brobeck* Gunnar Ekman* (temp.)
Head coach	Mikko Manner
Captain	Anton Rödin
Website	brynas.se
Championships
Le Mat Trophy	(13) (1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1993, 1999, 2012)
Current season

History

Brynäs IF was formed by Nils Norin, Ferdinand Blomkvist, and Thure Ternström on 12 May 1912^[1] and began to play ice hockey in 1939. The club has also competed in association football, athletics, bandy, swimming, and water polo.^{[citation needed]} The team has played in the hockey league's top flight since 1960 and has won the Swedish championship 13 times, most recently in 2012.

Brynäs IF became the world's first ice hockey club to collaborate with the United Nations Program UNICEF, after signing a five-year contract with the organisation on 20 November 2013 (expiring in 2018).^[2] On 3 June 2014, the club also signed a five-year contract with Gävle Municipality (expiring after the 2018–19 season). The municipality acquired the naming rights for the club's home arena and renamed it Gavlerinken Arena.^[3] The latter collaboration also meant the municipality would pay the club to play with ad-free jerseys, starting in the 2014–15 season, as the only SHL team.^[4] The arena is since September 2019 named Monitor ERP Arena.

In 2021, after finishing 13th (out of 14 teams) in the regular season, the team was forced to defend its SHL status for the first time since 2008, playing a best-of-seven series against the last-placed team, HV71, with home advantage.

Season-by-season

This is a partial list, featuring the five most recent completed seasons. For a more complete list, see List of Brynäs IF seasons.

Season	Level	Division	Record		Attendance	Notes
			Position	W–OTW–OTL–L
2017–18	Tier 1	SHL	10th	21–2–3–26	5,380
	Eighth-finals		—	2–1	5,019	Won 2–1 vs Luleå HF
	Swedish Championship playoffs		—	1–4	6,008	Lost in Quarterfinals, 1–4 vs Växjö Lakers
2018–19	Tier 1	SHL	11th	17–2–14–19	5,231
2019–20	Tier 1	SHL	12th	13–8–5–26	6,104
2020–21	Tier 1	SHL	13th	14–4–7–27	150
	Play Out		—	2–1	—	Won 4–1 vs HV71
2021–22	Tier 1	SHL	10th	17–6–6–23	4,544
	Eighth-finals		—	1–2	5,374	Lost 1–2 vs Örebro HK

Players and personnel

Current roster

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
15		Simon Bertilsson (A)	D	L	31	2020	Karlskoga, Sweden
29		Oscar Birgersson	C	L	22	2019	Stockholm, Sweden
24		Hannes Björninen	C	L	27	2022	Lahti, Finland
44		Jacob Blomqvist	C	R	36	2022	Hedesunda, Sweden
34		Oscar Eklind	LW	L	24	2021	Sweden
22		Axel Eriksson	D	L	19	2022	Gävle, Sweden
3		Niklas Friman	D	L	29	2022	Rauma, Finland
13		Samuel Johannesson	D	R	22	2022	Halmstad, Sweden
28		Johannes Kinnvall	D	R	25	2022	Gävle, Sweden
76		Oskar Kvist	LW	L	21	2019	Gävle, Sweden
10		Johan Larsson	C	L	30	2022	Lau, Sweden
39		Anders Lindbäck	G	L	34	2022	Gävle, Sweden
4		Theo Lindstein	D	L	18	2021	Gävle, Sweden
14		Alexander Ljungkrantz	LW	L	21	2019	Gävle, Sweden
38		Mikko Niemelä	D	R	32	2022	Oulu, Finland
43		Noel Nordh	LW	L	18	2022	Söderhamn, Sweden
95		Nick Olesen	RW	L	27	2021	Frederikshavn, Denmark
25		Jussi Olkinuora	G	L	32	2023	Helsinki, Finland
36		Linus Olund (A)	C	L	25	2019	Gävle, Sweden
20		Oula Palve	C	L	31	2020	Keuruu, Finland
18		Anton Rödin (C)	LW	L	32	2019	Stockholm, Sweden
41		Greg Scott	C	R	34	2019	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
90		David Sklenicka	D	L	26	2022	Rakovnik, Czech Republic
9		William Strömgren	LW	L	19	2022	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
88		Dmytro Timashov	LW	L	26	2021	Kirovograd, Ukraine

Updated 18 February 2023^[5][6]

Team captains

• Jan Larsson (1999–2003)
• Tommy Sjödin (2003–2008)
• Andreas Dackell (2008–2012)
• Jakob Silfverberg (2012)
• Jörgen Sundqvist (2012–2014)
• Niclas Andersén (2014–2015)
• Anton Rödin (2015–2016)
• Jacob Blomqvist (2016–2019)
• Anton Rödin (2019–present)

Head coaches

• Axel Svensson (1943–1944)
• Conny Eriksson (1954–1957)
• Arne Backman (1960–1961)
• Nils Bergström (1961–1963)
• Herbert Pettersson (1963–1966)
• Börje Mattsson (1966–1967)
• Nils Bergström (1967–1969)
• Tommy Sandlin (1969–1977)
• Rolf Andersson (1977–1979)
• Lennart Johansson (1979–1980)
• Tord Lundström (1980–1981)
• Lennart Johansson (1981–1982)
• Stig Salming (1982–1987)
• Tord Lundström (1987–1988)
• Staffan Tholson (1988–1991)
• Tommy Sandlin (1991–1996)
• Göran Sjöberg (1996–1998)
• Roger Melin (1998–2002)
• Esko Nokelainen (2002)
• Gunnar Persson (2002–2004)
• Tomas Jonsson (2004)
• Roger Kyrö (2004–2005)
• Wayne Fleming (2005–2005)
• Leif Boork (2005–2007)
• Olof Östblom (2007–2008)
• Tomas Thelin (2008)
• Leif Boork (2008)
• Niklas Czarnecki (2008–2011)
• Tommy Jonsson (2011–2014)
• Thomas Berglund (2014–2017)
• Roger Melin (2017–2017)
• Tommy Sjödin (2017–2018)
• Magnus Sundquist (2018–2020)
• Peter Andersson (2020–2021)
• Mikko Manner (2021-present)

Franchise records and leaders

Individual season records

• Most Goals in a season: Tom Bissett, 40 (1998–99)
• Most Assists in a season: Jan Larsson, 43 (1998–99)
• Most Points in a season: Lars-Göran Nilsson, 62 (1970–71)
• Most Penalty Minutes in a season: Tommy Melkersson, 118 (1996–97)
• Most Points in a season, defenseman: Pär Djoos, 48 (1998–99)

Scoring leaders

These are the top-ten point-scorers in SHL history. Figures are updated after each completed SHL regular season.^[7][8]

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game;   = current Brynäs IF player

Points

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	P/G
Lars-Göran Nilsson	F	425	273	257	530	1.25
Håkan Wickberg	F	363	253	241	494	1.36
Tord Lundström	F	367	261	232	493	1.34
Ove Molin	RW	772	192	295	487	.63
Jan Larsson	C	598	189	281	470	.79
Stefan Karlsson	F	428	252	140	392	.92
Anders Huss	C	574	189	183	372	.65
Andreas Dackell	RW	524	132	217	349	.67
Tommy Sjödin	D	681	117	198	315	.46
Hans Lindberg	F	246	209	105	314	1.28

Trophies and awards

Team

Le Mat Trophy

• 1963–64, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1992–93, 1998–99, 2011–12

Individual

Coach of the Year

• Tommy Sandlin: 1991–92, 1992–93
• Roger Melin: 1998–99

Guldhjälmen

• Jan Larsson: 1998–99
• Jakob Silfverberg: 2011–2012

Guldpucken

• Håkan Wickberg: 1970–71
• William Löfqvist: 1971–72
• Stig Östling: 1974–75
• Mats Näslund: 1979–80
• Tommy Sjödin: 1991–92

Håkan Loob Trophy

• Kenneth Andersson: 1983–84
• Evgeny Davydov: 1996–97
• Tom Bissett: 1998–99
• Jan Larsson: 1999-00

Honken Trophy

• Johan Holmqvist: 2005–06
• Jacob Markström: 2009–10

Rinkens Riddare

• Lars Bylund: 1968–69
• Håkan Wickberg: 1969–70
• Jan-Erik Lyck: 1971–72

Rookie of the Year

• Nicklas Bäckström: 2005–06
• Jacob Markström: 2009–10
• Mattias Ekholm: 2010–11
• Johan Larsson:2011-12

References

1. Martin Alsiö (April 2004). "De allsvenska klubbarnas födelsedagar" (PDF) (in Swedish). Bolletinen. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
2. "Brynäs IF och UNICEF i unikt samarbete" (in Swedish). Brynäs IF. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
3. "Gävle kommun går in som huvudpartner till Brynäs IF" (in Swedish). Brynäs IF. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
4. (in Swedish). Gefle Dagblad. 6 June 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
5. "A-laget > Spelartrupp" (in Swedish). www.brynas.se. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
6. "Eliteprospects.com - Brynäs". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
7. "Brynäs ‑ All-Time SHL Leaders". QuantHockey.com. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
8. "All-Time Stats for Brynäs". eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 22 March 2019.

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