Ørjan Løvdal is a Norwegian 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 and coach. He spent most of his career with Stjernen Hockey of the Norwegian Elitserien

GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...

. He also played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1984, 1988, and 1992. He was Norwegian champion in 1986. He was awarded Gullpucken

Gullpucken

Gullpucken is awarded by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation to the best Norwegian ice hockey player each year. The award is subject to consideration which means it is not neccessarliy awarded every year. Its inception year was 1959, when Leif Solberg of Furuset became its first recipient...

as best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1986 and 1987.

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