Peter Nilsson is a Swedish 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. Nilsson began playing hockey in Hammarby IF

Hammarby IF Hockey

Hammarby IF Hockey was a professional ice hockey team from Stockholm, Sweden, and played at Hovet arena. The ice hockey association of Hammarby was founded in 1920...

 at a senior level in 1978. He joined 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...

 in 1983. During his 12 seasons for Djurgården, he played a total of 510 Elitserien

Elitserien

Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...

 games and scored 341 points before moving back to his first club Hammarby in 1995. Nilsson ended his professional career in Södertälje SK

Södertälje SK

Södertälje Sportklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey club playing in HockeyAllsvenskan. Södertälje were charter members of Elitserien when the league was founded in 1975 and have since played 24 seasons in the league...

 in 1998.
He is currently playing in Division 3 for Bajen Fans IF, which is an initiative by supporters of Hammarby after Hammarby IF went bankrupt in 2008.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...	Team	League		GP	G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...	A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...	Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...	PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1978–79	Hammarby IF Hammarby IF Hockey Hammarby IF Hockey was a professional ice hockey team from Stockholm, Sweden, and played at Hovet arena. The ice hockey association of Hammarby was founded in 1920...	Division 1		3	0	0	0	0		—	—	—	—	—
1979–90	Hammarby IF	Division 1		28	6	6	12	12		6	1	0	1	4
1980–81	Hammarby IF	Division 1		29	22	11	33	24		11	4	3	7	4
1981–82	Hammarby IF	Division 1		12	7	8	15	12		10	2	8	10	12
1982–83	Hammarby IF	SEL Elitserien Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...		33	14	7	21	12		—	—	—	—	—
1983–84	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		34	18	13	31	12		6	0	0	0	2
1984–85	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		35	18	17	35	8		7	1	4	5	0
1985–86	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		34	13	11	24	14		—	—	—	—	—
1986–87	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		33	11	14	25	20		2	1	1	2	2
1987–88	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		39	14	32	46	22		3	0	2	2	0
1988–89	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		40	11	20	31	6		8	3	4	7	4
1989–90	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		38	4	15	19	14		8	0	3	3	6
1990–91	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		39	5	13	18	10		7	2	1	3	6
1991–92	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		36	8	14	22	20		10	1	3	4	6
1992–93	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		39	4	5	9	20		5	3	1	4	4
1993–94	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		39	15	13	28	14		5	1	1	2	0
1994–95	Djurgårdens IF	SEL		39	6	16	22	20		3	0	0	0	2
1995–96	Hammarby IF	Division 1		31	14	21	35	16		3	1	2	3	2
1996–97	Södertälje SK Södertälje SK Södertälje Sportklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey club playing in HockeyAllsvenskan. Södertälje were charter members of Elitserien when the league was founded in 1975 and have since played 24 seasons in the league...	SEL		45	11	15	26	18		—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	Södertälje SK	Kvalserien 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:...		10	0	6	6	6		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	Södertälje SK	SEL		40	5	7	12	6		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	Södertälje SK	Kvalserien		9	1	2	3	6		—	—	—	—	—

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