1982–83 Elitserien season

The Elitserien season 1982/83 was the eighth season of the Swedish Elitserien. Swedish Champion was the eleventh time in the club's history the Djurgårdens IF, while the Movers Hammarby IF descent directly back to the second division.

  • 2.1 tournament tree
  • 2.2 Swedish Champion

Regular Season

Mode

The ten teams in the Elitserien first played in 36 regular season games against each other. While the first four teams for the play- offs qualified, the last placed rose directly from the Division I and the last but one had to compete for the league against the best second division in the Kvalserien. For a win, each team was given two points, a draw there was a point and a defeat.

Final Table

Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = drawn, L = Loss, OTS = Overtime wins, OTN = Overtime defeat, SOS = Penalty victories, SON = Penalty defeat

Play-offs

The semi-final was played in mode " Best-of- Three", the final mode in the " Best-of -Five".

Tournament tree

Swedish Champion

Goalkeepers: Bo Larsson, Rolf Ridder Wall

Defender: Tommy Albelin, Thomas Eriksson, Mikael Good, Karl -Erik Lilja, Tord Naensen, Stefan Perlström, Michael Thelvén, Mats Waltin

Attacker: Bo Berglund, Dag Bredberg, Björn Carlsson Jan Claesson, Håkan Eriksson, Jörgen Holmberg, Kent Johansson, Martin lens, Tommy Mörth, Jens Öhling, Hans Särkijärvi, Håkan Södergren

Head Coach: Leif Boork

All- Star team

(Note: The Swedish All- Star team for the first time included active foreign-based players )

Awards

  • Guldpucken ( best Swedish player) - Håkan Loob, Färjestad BK
  • Top Scorer - Håkan Loob, Färjestad BK
  • SICO: s guldpipa (best referee ) - Gary Eriksson
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