HV71 facts for kids

Quick facts for kids HV71
City	Jönköping, Sweden
League	Swedish Hockey League
Founded	May 24, 1971
Home arena	Husqvarna Garden
Colors
General manager	Chris Abbott
Head coach	Anton Blomqvist
Captain	Olle Alsing
Website	hv71.se
Franchise history
1971	Huskvarna/Vätterstads IF
1971–present	HV71
Championships
Regular season titles	(5) (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011)
Le Mat Trophy	(5) (1995, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2017)
Current season

HV71 (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhôːveː ˌɧɵtːɪˈɛtː]), often referred to as just HV, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping, playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the first tier of Swedish ice hockey. The team played in the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League season, and also participated in the new Champions Hockey League tournament since the 2014–15 season. Between 2008 and 2013, HV also participated in the European Trophy tournament. With the exception of a one-year stint in the 2021–22 season in Sweden's second tier, HockeyAllsvenskan, where they won the promotion playoffs, the club has played continuously in the SHL since being promoted in the 1984–85 season.

History

HV71 was founded on May 24, 1971, as a merger between Husqvarna IF and Vätterstads IK, and took the name Huskvarna/Vätterstads IF but later that year it was shortened to the current name HV71. The club first qualified for the top Swedish league, Elitserien, in the 1978–79 season, but was relegated in the 1979–80 season after only one season. They won promotion again in the 1984–85 season and have remained in the top division ever since with the exception of the 2021–22 season, and are as of the 2000s a well-established top club in Sweden. The club has won the national championship five times; 1995, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2017. For a few years in the late 1990s, HV71 was also called the Blue Bulls.

Many Swedes associate HV71 with the club's old arena Rosenlundshallen, which was inaugurated in 1958 as Sweden's first indoor ice hockey arena, but was replaced in 2000 with the new and improved Kinnarps Arena. As the new arena was built around and on top of Rosenlundshallen, HV71 practically played its games during the season 1999–00 in a construction site.

On December 6, 2006, HV71 topped Elitserien after a 5-2-win over Färjestads BK, at the same time as the club's two youth teams (under 20 and 18 years old) topped their leagues, J20 SuperElit and J18 Elit. This was an event that had never happened before in HV71's entire club history.

1994–95 season

HV71 won its first national championship season 1994–95 as the last (8th) team to qualify for the playoffs. The club is the only team in Swedish history to win the finals after ending as the 8th team at the end of the regular season. In the quarter-finals HV beat Djurgårdens IF Hockey, the team that finished first in the regular season, in three straight games. In the semifinal they came back after having lost the first two games to Malmö Redhawks, the team which was then defending champions, and turned the series around to a 3–2 victory. Finally they managed a decisive sudden death victory in the final against Brynäs IF in the fourth period of the fifth game to win the championship. The name of the historical scorer was Johan Lindbom, but other big heroes during the play-offs were the goalie Boo Ahl and the Finnish center-forward Esa Keskinen.

2003–04 season

The second championship was won during the season 2003–04 after beating Modo Hockey with a 4–2-game series, Frölunda HC with 4–2 in games in the semi-finals, and then winning the finals with a 4-3 match series against Färjestads BK. In the quarter-finals HV71 set a new Swedish record for scoring the most goals in one period with seven in the first period of the second game against Modo Hockey. In fact they scored the seven goals during the last ten minutes of the period. The game ended with a 10–1 victory. In the final, goalie Stefan Liv managed to keep his goal empty in all four games that the team won, the two last games ending 1-0 and 5-0 respectively. He also kept the goal empty in the last semi-final, which means he managed this for five consecutive wins.

2006–07 season

HV71 ended the regular season as the second placed team after Färjestads BK. HV chose to meet Brynäs IF in the quarter-finals and managed after seven games (4 wins and 3 losses) to continue to the semifinals. The team faced Modo Hockey and even with home advantage HV did not manage to proceed to the finals having lost four out of seven games. This meant that HV for the second consecutive year lost a seven games series in the semifinal to the eventual Swedish champion.

During the season the newly acquired defenceman Johan Åkerman was a trendsetting player and also made his national debut for Sweden at the age of 34. HV's starting goaltender, Erik Ersberg, had his breakthrough and played for the national team; and was awarded with the Honken Trophy as Sweden's best goaltender. During the off-season he signed with the NHL team Los Angeles Kings.

Season-by-season record

This is a partial list, featuring the five most recent completed seasons. For a more complete list, see List of HV71 seasons.

Players and personnel

Current roster

Updated 14 November 2024

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
60	Sweden	Alnefelt, HugoHugo Alnefelt	1.0 G	L	23	2024	Danderyd, Sweden
38	SWE	Alsing, OlleOlle Alsing	2.0 D	L	28	2024	Uppsala, Sweden
19	Finland	Borgström, HenrikHenrik Borgström	4.0 C	L	27	2023	Helsinki, Finland
17	Sweden	Brännström, IsacIsac Brännström	6.0 LW	L	26	2023	Nässjö, Sweden
80	Denmark	Dichow, FrederikFrederik Dichow	1.0 G	R	23	2023	Vojens, Denmark
44	Sweden	Fransson, HugoHugo Fransson	2.0 D	L	20	2023	Tranås, Sweden
35	Sweden	Glifford, OlofOlof Glifford	1.0 G	L	19	2023	Huskvarna, Sweden
77	Sweden	Hansson, HermanHerman Hansson	6.0 LW	L	30	2022	Mörrum, Sweden
32	Sweden	Engsund, OscarOscar Engsund	2.0 D	L	31	2024	Gothenburg, Sweden
67	Finland	Kaski, OliwerOliwer Kaski	2.0 D	R	29	2022	Pori, Finland
16	US	Kero, TannerTanner Kero	4.0 C	L	32	2024	Hancock, Michigan, United States
75	Czechia	Lenc, RadanRadan Lenc	5.0 W	L	33	2022	Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia
33	Sweden	Lindbäck, MånsMåns Lindbäck	7.0 RW	L	28	2021	Kalmar, Sweden
27	Canada	Ang, JonathanJonathan Ang	7.0 RW	R	26	2024	Markham, Ontario, Canada
46	Finland	Luoto, JoonaJoona Luoto	5.0 W	L	27	2024	Tampere, Finland
24	Denmark	Fisker Mølgaard, OscarOscar Fisker Mølgaard	4.0 C	L	19	2022	Frederikshavn, Denmark
18	Canada	LaLeggia, JoeyJoey LaLeggia	2.0 D	L	32	2024	Burnaby, Canada
71	Sweden	Ignberg Nilsson, WilliamWilliam Ignberg Nilsson	7.0 RW	R	23	2024	Umeå, Sweden
39	Switzerland	Reber, JamiroJamiro Reber	4.0 C	L	18	2024	Münsingen, Switzerland
28	SWE	Nyberg, JohnJohn Nyberg	2.0 D	L	28	2024	Gothenburg, Sweden
40	Sweden	Petersson, AndréAndré Petersson (C)	6.0 LW	R	34	2022	Olofström, Sweden
12	Sweden	Pettersson, HugoHugo Pettersson	6.0 LW	R	19	2023	Tranås, Sweden
55	Finland	Seppälä, MikaelMikael Seppälä	2.0 D	L	30	2023	Ylivieska, Finland
5	Sweden	Sjöholm, VictorVictor Sjöholm	2.0 D	R	21	2020	Jönköping, Sweden
23	Sweden	Stakkestad, ÅkeÅke Stakkestad	4.0 C	L	22	2023	Kungälv, Sweden
40	Sweden	Stål Lyrenäs, OskarOskar Stål Lyrenäs	7.0 RW	R	26	2023	Umeå, Sweden
74	Canada	Day, SeanSean Day	2.0 D	L	26	2024	Lueven, Belgium
21	Sweden	Tedenby, MattiasMattias Tedenby	6.0 LW	L	34	2022	Vetlanda, Sweden
29	SWE	Hallquisth, WilhelmWilhelm Hallquisth	2.0 D	R	19	2023	Stockholm, Sweden
26	Finland	Tikka, TommiTommi Tikka	4.0 C	L	29	2023	Helsinki, Finland
88	SWE	Träff, HermanHerman Träff	5.0 W	R	18	2023	Växjö, Sweden

Team captains

Retired numbers

HV71's first two championship banners hang alongside the first two player numbers that were retired by the club

Club records and leaders

Individual season records

• Most Seasons played: Per Gustafsson, 20 (1988–96), (1998–10)
• Most Goals in a season: Kai Nurminen, 31 (1995–96)
• Most Goals in a season, rookie: Kai Nurminen, 31 (1995–96) (Elitserien record)
• Most Assists in a season: Johan Davidsson, 46 (2009–10)
• Most Assists in a season, rookie: Esa Keskinen, 28 (1994–95)
• Most Points in a season: Esa Keskinen, 59 (1995–96)
• Most Elitserien matches played in a row: Andreas Falk, (19 September 2006–28 January 2012)
• Most Penalty Minutes in a season: Lance Ward, 273 (2006–07) (Elitserien record)
• Most Points in a season, goalkeeper: Andreas Andersson, 4 (2007–08)
• Most Points in a season, defenseman: David Petrasek, 53 (2009–10) (Elitserien record)
• Most Points in a season, rookie: Kai Nurminen, 55 (1995–96) (Elitserien record)
• Fastest Goal scored: Per Gustafsson, 6 seconds (1991–92) (Elitserien record)
• Longest Time without conceding a goal: Hannau Lassila, 184 minutes and 6 seconds (28 October 1979–11 November 1979)
• Most Shutouts in a season: Stefan Liv, 6 (2003–04)

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Scoring leaders

These are the top-ten point-scorers in club's history. Figures are updated after each completed SHL regular season.

Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game;      = current HV71 player

Trophies and awards

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