Håkan Södergren
Encyclopedia
Karl Håkan Södergren (born June 14, 1959 in Rosersberg
, Sweden
) is a retired professional ice hockey
player, often a recurring color commentator
in Viasat
's ice hockey broadcast productions.
in the Swedish elite league Elitserien
during his entire professional career, winning the Swedish Championship four times. He finished his active playing career with Huddinge IK
in the second tier in the Swedish league structure.
Internationally he played in 162 games with the Swedish national team, winning gold at the 1987 World Ice Hockey Championships
and bronze at the 1984
and 1988 Winter Olympics
. He was awarded the Stora Grabbars Märke
(no. 125) and the Guldpucken
(Elitserien Player of the Year) in 1987.
Södergren recorded and sang solo in the Swedish national team's fight song
"Nu tar vi dom" (Swedish for "let's get them"). He is residing in Oslo
, Norway
, with his two sons.
Rosersberg
Rosersberg is a locality situated in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 1,641 inhabitants in 2005.It grew up around a railway station and got its name from the nearby Rosersberg Palace, one of the royal palaces of Sweden. Rosersberg has a station of the Stockholm commuter rail...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
) is a retired professional ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
player, often a recurring color commentator
Color commentator
A color commentator is a sports commentator who assists the play-by-play announcer, often by filling in any time when play is not in progress. The color analyst and main commentator will often exchange comments freely throughout the broadcast, when the play-by-play announcer is not describing the...
in Viasat
Viasat
Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...
's ice hockey broadcast productions.
Playing career
Södergren played for Djurgårdens IF HockeyDjurgårdens IF Hockey
Djurgårdens IF Hockey are a professional ice hockey team based in Stockholm, Sweden. They are the ice hockey department of the sports club Djurgårdens IF. The department was formed in 1922 with the help of Wilhelm Arwe and have since then become Sweden's most successful team, having won the Swedish...
in the Swedish elite league Elitserien
Elitserien
Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...
during his entire professional career, winning the Swedish Championship four times. He finished his active playing career with Huddinge IK
Huddinge IK
Huddinge IK is a Swedish ice hockey team from Huddinge, a southern suburb of Stockholm. The team is currently playing in the third highest league in Sweden, Division 1...
in the second tier in the Swedish league structure.
Internationally he played in 162 games with the Swedish national team, winning gold at the 1987 World Ice Hockey Championships
1987 World Ice Hockey Championships
The 1987 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 52nd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was also the 63rd ice hockey European Championships. Teams representing 28 countries participated in four levels of competition....
and bronze at the 1984
Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics
At the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, one ice hockey event was held: men's ice hockey. Most of the games were held at the Olympic Hall Zetra and some of the games in Skenderija II olympic hall.-Medalists:Source:* Gold -...
and 1988 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics
At the 1988 Winter Olympics one ice hockey event was held, men's ice hockey. Games were played at the Olympic Saddledome, the Stampede Corral, and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Source:* Gold - * Silver -...
. He was awarded the Stora Grabbars Märke
Stora Grabbars Märke
Stora Grabbars Märke is an honorary award within Swedish sports, created in 1928 by Bo Ekelund. The recipients are called a 'Stor Grabb' and has to gather a certain amount of points according to different rules depending on the sport in question...
(no. 125) and the Guldpucken
Guldpucken
Guldpucken is awarded annually to the ice hockey player of the year in Sweden. It is similar to the NHL's Hart Memorial Trophy. Normally it goes to a player in the Swedish Elite League...
(Elitserien Player of the Year) in 1987.
Off the ice
For the 1989 World Ice Hockey Championships1989 World Ice Hockey Championships
-Final Round:-Consolation Round:Poland was relegated to Group B.-World Championship Group B :Played in Oslo and Lillehammer March 30th to April 9th. The April 5th game between Norway and Austria was officially adjusted to 8-0 for Norway because of Siegfried Haberl's positive drug test...
Södergren recorded and sang solo in the Swedish national team's fight song
Fight song
A fight song is primarily an American and Canadian sports term, referring to a song associated with a team. In both professional and amateur sports, fight songs are a popular way for fans to cheer for their team...
"Nu tar vi dom" (Swedish for "let's get them"). He is residing in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, with his two sons.
Awards
- Elitserien Silver Medal in 1979 and 1985.
- Swedish Champion with Djurgårdens IF HockeyDjurgårdens IF HockeyDjurgårdens IF Hockey are a professional ice hockey team based in Stockholm, Sweden. They are the ice hockey department of the sports club Djurgårdens IF. The department was formed in 1922 with the help of Wilhelm Arwe and have since then become Sweden's most successful team, having won the Swedish...
in 1983, 1989, 1990 and 1991. - Awarded the GuldpuckenGuldpuckenGuldpucken is awarded annually to the ice hockey player of the year in Sweden. It is similar to the NHL's Hart Memorial Trophy. Normally it goes to a player in the Swedish Elite League...
(Elitserien Player of the Year) in 1987. - Bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in 1984 and 1988.
- Silver medal at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1986.
- Gold medal at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1987.
- Flint
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1977–78 | Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens IF Hockey Djurgårdens IF Hockey are a professional ice hockey team based in Stockholm, Sweden. They are the ice hockey department of the sports club Djurgårdens IF. The department was formed in 1922 with the help of Wilhelm Arwe and have since then become Sweden's most successful team, having won the Swedish... |
SEL Elitserien Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden... |
12 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1978–79 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 16 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1979–80 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 28 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 22 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1980–81 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 35 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 46 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1981–82 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 33 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 57 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1981–82 | Djurgårdens IF | Kval Kvalserien Kvalserien, also known as Kvalserien till Elitserien, is the name of the Swedish round-robin ice hockey tournament to qualify for play in the next season of Elitserien, Sweden's top-level ice hockey league for men.-Teams:... |
-- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 1982-83 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 35 | 14 | 22 | 36 | 62 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 22 | ||
| 1983–84 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 29 | 5 | 19 | 24 | 74 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21 | ||
| 1984–85 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 35 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 42 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | ||
| 1985–86 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 33 | 11 | 19 | 30 | 38 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1986–87 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 32 | 14 | 19 | 33 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1987–88 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 32 | 17 | 24 | 41 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1988–89 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 29 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 36 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | ||
| 1989–90 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 31 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 1990–91 | Djurgårdens IF | SEL | 40 | 9 | 13 | 22 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1991–92 | Huddinge IK Huddinge IK Huddinge IK is a Swedish ice hockey team from Huddinge, a southern suburb of Stockholm. The team is currently playing in the third highest league in Sweden, Division 1... |
Swe-2 | 33 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 52 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Swe-2 totals | 33 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 52 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 4 | ||||
| SEL totals | 420 | 131 | 194 | 325 | 537 | 46 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 65 | ||||
International play
Södergren has played for Sweden in the following competitions:- 1979 World Junior ChampionshipsWorld Junior Ice Hockey ChampionshipsThe International Ice Hockey Federation World Under 20 Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-20 ice hockey teams from around the world...
- 1983 World Championships1983 World Ice Hockey ChampionshipsThe 1983 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in West Germany from 16 April to 2 May. The games were played in Munich, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. Eight teams took part, with each playing each other once. The four best teams then play each other once more. This was the 49th World Championships,...
- 1984 Winter OlympicsIce hockey at the 1984 Winter OlympicsAt the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, one ice hockey event was held: men's ice hockey. Most of the games were held at the Olympic Hall Zetra and some of the games in Skenderija II olympic hall.-Medalists:Source:* Gold -...
(bronze medal) - 1985 World Championships1985 World Ice Hockey ChampionshipsThe 1985 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 17 April to 3 May. Eight teams took part, with each team playing each other once. The four best teams then played each other again. This was the 50th World Championships, and also the 61st European Championships of...
- 1986 World Championships1986 World Ice Hockey ChampionshipsThe 1986 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in the Soviet Union from 12 April to 28 April. The games were played at the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, and eight teams took part. Each team played each other once, and then the four best teams played each other again....
(silver medal) - 1987 World Championships1987 World Ice Hockey ChampionshipsThe 1987 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 52nd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was also the 63rd ice hockey European Championships. Teams representing 28 countries participated in four levels of competition....
(gold medal) - 1987 Canada Cup1987 Canada CupThe 1987 Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament held from August 28 to September 15, 1987. The finals took place in Montreal on September 11 and Hamilton, Ontario, on September 13 and September 15, and were won by Team Canada....
- 1988 Winter OlympicsIce hockey at the 1988 Winter OlympicsAt the 1988 Winter Olympics one ice hockey event was held, men's ice hockey. Games were played at the Olympic Saddledome, the Stampede Corral, and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Source:* Gold - * Silver -...
(bronze medal) - 1989 World Championships1989 World Ice Hockey Championships-Final Round:-Consolation Round:Poland was relegated to Group B.-World Championship Group B :Played in Oslo and Lillehammer March 30th to April 9th. The April 5th game between Norway and Austria was officially adjusted to 8-0 for Norway because of Siegfried Haberl's positive drug test...
International statistics
| Year | Team | Event | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Sweden | WJC World Junior Ice Hockey Championships The International Ice Hockey Federation World Under 20 Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-20 ice hockey teams from around the world... |
6 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| 1983 | Sweden | WC 1983 World Ice Hockey Championships The 1983 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in West Germany from 16 April to 2 May. The games were played in Munich, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. Eight teams took part, with each playing each other once. The four best teams then play each other once more. This was the 49th World Championships,... |
10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 | |
| 1984 | Sweden | Oly Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics At the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, one ice hockey event was held: men's ice hockey. Most of the games were held at the Olympic Hall Zetra and some of the games in Skenderija II olympic hall.-Medalists:Source:* Gold -... |
6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1985 | Sweden | WC 1985 World Ice Hockey Championships The 1985 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 17 April to 3 May. Eight teams took part, with each team playing each other once. The four best teams then played each other again. This was the 50th World Championships, and also the 61st European Championships of... |
9 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |
| 1986 | Sweden | WC 1986 World Ice Hockey Championships The 1986 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in the Soviet Union from 12 April to 28 April. The games were played at the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, and eight teams took part. Each team played each other once, and then the four best teams played each other again.... |
10 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2 | |
| 1987 | Sweden | WC 1987 World Ice Hockey Championships The 1987 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 52nd such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. It was also the 63rd ice hockey European Championships. Teams representing 28 countries participated in four levels of competition.... |
10 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | |
| 1987 | Sweden | WCup 1987 Canada Cup The 1987 Canada Cup was a professional international ice hockey tournament held from August 28 to September 15, 1987. The finals took place in Montreal on September 11 and Hamilton, Ontario, on September 13 and September 15, and were won by Team Canada.... |
6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1988 | Sweden | Oly Ice hockey at the 1988 Winter Olympics At the 1988 Winter Olympics one ice hockey event was held, men's ice hockey. Games were played at the Olympic Saddledome, the Stampede Corral, and Father David Bauer Olympic Arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Source:* Gold - * Silver -... |
8 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | |
| 1989 | Sweden | WC 1989 World Ice Hockey Championships -Final Round:-Consolation Round:Poland was relegated to Group B.-World Championship Group B :Played in Oslo and Lillehammer March 30th to April 9th. The April 5th game between Norway and Austria was officially adjusted to 8-0 for Norway because of Siegfried Haberl's positive drug test... |
10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Junior int'l totals | 6 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Senior int'l totals | 69 | 16 | 26 | 42 | 58 | |||