Leif Holmqvist
| Leif Holmqvist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Leif Holmqvist in 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 November 1942 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 172 lb (78 kg; 12 st 4 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goaltender | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caught | Left | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Played for |
Strömsbro IF AIK London Lions Indianapolis Racers HV71 Hanhals IF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1958–1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leif Erik "Honken" Holmqvist (born 12 November 1942) is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He is one of only four players to win the Golden Puck award twice, which he did while playing for AIK.
Holmqvist played a season in England for the London Lions and one in the United States for the Indianapolis Racers.[1]
He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics.[2]
Holmqvist was named best goaltender at the 1969 IIHF World Championships.[3] After retiring from hockey, Holmqvist coached in the Norwegian National League.[3]
He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.[4][5]
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | W | L | T | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | SV% | GP | W | L | T | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | SV% | ||
| 1975–76 | Indianapolis Racers | WHA | 19 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1079 | 54 | 0 | 3.00 | .896 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
References
- ↑ https://www.surgent.net/wha/player/hij/holmql.html
- ↑ Leif Holmqvist at Sports Reference
- 1 2 "Leif Holmqvist". legendsofhockey.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ↑ "IIHF Hall of Fame". IIHF.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- ↑ "Sura-legender i Hall of Fame". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden. 3 December 2003. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leif Holmqvist.
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
- A to Z Encyclopedia of Ice Hockey Archived 11 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Categories:
- 1942 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Swedish sportsmen
- AIK IF players
- Expatriate ice hockey players in England
- HV71 players
- Ice hockey people from Gävle
- Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players with retired numbers
- IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
- Indianapolis Racers players
- London Lions (ice hockey) players
- Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
- Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in England
- Swedish ice hockey goaltenders