HV71

HV71 (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhôːveː ˌɧɵtːɪˈɛtː]), often referred to as just HV,[1] 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 participates 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 1986.

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team competing in the SDHL, see HV71 Dam.
HV71
CityJönköping, Sweden
LeagueSwedish Hockey League
FoundedMay 24, 1971
Home arenaHusqvarna Garden
Colors     
General managerKent Norberg
Head coachJohan Lindbom
CaptainNiklas Hjalmarsson
Websitehv71.se
Franchise history
1971Huskvarna/Vätterstads IF
1971–presentHV71
Championships
Regular season titles(5) (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011)
Le Mat Trophy(5) (1995, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2017)
Current 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 entered the top Swedish league, Elitserien, in 1979, but was soon relegated. They won promotion again in 1985–86 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.[2]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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 of scoring the most goals in one period with their 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.[4] 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.

2005–06 season

HV71 finished the regular season 2005–06 as winner of the league table. For the first time in HV71's history the club faced Mora IK in the quarter-finals, winning the match series with 4–1. In the semi-finals the club was pitted against Färjestads BK. The match series did not have a winner until the last minute of the seventh game. Färjestads BK scored two goals in a matter of seconds during the last minute of the game, turning the game over and thus ending HV71's season. This is often considered the toughest loss in the history of HV71.

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.[5] 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.[6] During the off-season he signed with the NHL team Los Angeles Kings.[7]

2007–08 season

The 2007–08 season saw HV71 winning their third Swedish Championship, the second during the 2000s. HV71 finished the regular season as the league champion with 107 points, 15 points ahead of the second placed team Linköpings HC. HV defeated Skellefteå AIK in the quarter-finals, winning the series 4–1. In the semifinals HV met the fifth seeded team, Timrå IK. HV advanced to the finals after winning the series 4–2. In the finals HV managed to defeat Linköpings HC in six games, coming back from 2-0 down after the first two games. The sixth game went into overtime with HV's newly signed player Eric Johansson scoring the game-winning goal and winning the Swedish Championship.

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.

SeasonGPWLOTPtsGFGAFinishPlayoffs
2018–195225216801361258th, SHLLost in quarterfinal, 3-4 (Färjestad BK)
2019–205230175891581305th, SHLPlayoffs cancelled due to COVID-19
2020–2152173055112716714th, SHLRelegated to HockeyAllsvenskan
2021–2252401021161891181st, HockeyAllsvenskanPromoted to SHL
2022–2352222196813815111th, SHLDid not qualify

Players and personnel

Current roster
No. Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
27 United States Bobby Nardella D L 27 2023 Illinois, United States
55 Finland Mikael Seppälä D L 29 2023 Ylivieska, Finland
56 Sweden Fredrik Forsberg RW R 26 2020 Uppsala, Sweden
44 Sweden Hugo Fransson D L 19 2023 Tranås, Sweden
77 Sweden Herman Hansson LW L 29 2022 Mörrum, Sweden
67 Finland Oliwer Kaski D R 28 2022 Pori, Finland
19 Finland Henrik Borgström C L 26 2023 Helsinki, Finland
75 Czech Republic Radan Lenc LW L 32 2022 Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia
33 Sweden Måns Lindbäck RW R 27 2021 Kalmar, Sweden
12 Finland Kalle Maalahti D L 32 2023 Lappeenranta, Finland
26 Finland Tommi Tikka C L 28 2023 Helsinki, Finland
17 Sweden Isac Brännström LW L 25 2023 Nässjö, Sweden
24 Denmark Oscar Fisker Mølgaard F L 18 2022 Frederikshavn, Denmark
28 Finland Joonas Nättinen (A) C R 32 2022 Jämsä, Finland
11 Sweden Simon Önerud RW L 35 2018 Jönköping, Sweden
31 Finland Joni Ortio G L 32 2022 Turku, Finland
40 Sweden André Petersson (C) LW R 33 2022 Olofström, Sweden
66 Sweden Olle Strandell D L 24 2023 Leksand, Sweden
5 Sweden Victor Sjöholm D R 20 2020 Jönköping, Sweden
6 Sweden Anton Strålman (A) D R 37 2023 Tibro, Sweden
21 Sweden Mattias Tedenby LW L 33 2022 Vetlanda, Sweden
23 Sweden Åke Stakkestad C L 21 2023 Kungälv, Sweden
40 Sweden Oskar Stål-Lyrenäs RW R 25 2023 Umeå, Sweden
35 Sweden Victor Brattström G L 26 2023 Göteborg, Sweden

Updated 08 September 2023[8][9]

Team captains

Retired numbers
HV71's first two championship banners hang alongside the first two player numbers that were retired by the club
HV71 retired numbers
No. Player Position Career No. retirement
14Fredrik StillmanD1982–1995, 1996–2001December 26, 2001
15Stefan ÖrnskogLW1987–1998, 1999–2001December 26, 2001
7Per GustafssonD1988–1996, 1999–2010September 18, 2010
1Stefan LivG1999–2006, 2007–2010January 10, 2012[10]
76Johan DavidssonC1993–1997, 2001–2013September 27, 2014
22David PetrasekD1994–2000, 2005–2010, 2012–2015January 27, 2017
10Martin ThörnbergLW/RW2003-2011, 2015–2020, 2021January 5, 2023

Club records and leaders

Individual season records
  • Most Goals in a season: Kai Nurminen, 31 (1995–96)
  • Most Assists in a season: Johan Davidsson, 46 (2009–10)
  • Most Points in a season: Esa Keskinen, 59 (1995–96)
  • Most Penalty Minutes in a season: Lance Ward, 273 (2006–07) (Elitserien record)
  • 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)
  • Most Shutouts in a season: Stefan Liv, 6 (2003–04)

Source:[11]

Scoring leaders

These are the top-ten point-scorers in club history. Figures are updated after each completed SHL regular season.[12]

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

Points
PlayerPosGPGAPtsP/G
Johan DavidssonC776176386562.72
Per GustafssonD719122216338.47
Martin ThörnbergLW588174139313.53
Fredrik StillmanD56692197289.51
Stefan ÖrnskogLW442106150256.58
Ove TörnbergLW369129104233.63
David PetrasekD64564157221.34
Peter EkelundC577108110218.37
Esa KeskinenC203611472081.02
Björn MelinLW45981126207.45

Trophies and awards

Le Mat Trophy

  • 1994–95, 2003–04, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2016–17
  • Tampere cup 1998

Individual

Coach of the Year

Guldhjälmen

Guldpucken

Guldskridskon

Honken Trophy

Rinkens riddare

  • Johan Davidsson: 2002–03
  • Johan Davidsson: 2003–04
  • Johan Davidsson: 2004–05

Rookie of the Year

Source:[14]

References
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  3. Daniel Gustafsson (2006-12-06). "HV71 har tre serieledare" (in Swedish). HV71.se. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
  4. "SM-Slutspel 2003-2004" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2007-08-13. Retrieved 2006-08-31.
  5. "34-årig back gör debut i Tre Kronor" (in Swedish). svt.se. 2006-12-04. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-04-04.
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  8. "HV71 current roster". HV71 (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  9. "HV71 - Team Roster". www.eliteprospects.com. 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  10. Victorzon and Ekeliw (2011-09-08). "Stefan Livs tröja hissas av HV71". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-09-09.
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