Kjell Samuelsson

Kjell William Alf Samuelsson ( born October 18, 1958 in Tingsryd ) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active years from 1976 to 1999 among others for the New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League played. Since 2009 he is an assistant coach with the Adirondack Phantoms in the American Hockey League.

Career

Kjell Samuelsson began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at Tingsryds AIF for the first team, he was active from 1976 to 1983 in the then Division 1 second-rate. Then the defender played two years for Leksand IF in the Elitserien. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1984 in the sixth round as the 119th overall player of the New York Rangers, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1985/86 season. He was in his rookie year in 18 games a template. The majority of the playing time he spent, however, in their farm team in the American Hockey League, the New Haven Nighthawks.

On 18 December 1986 Samuelsson was transferred by the Rangers along with a second-round vote in exchange for Bob Froese to the Philadelphia Flyers, for in the NHL he was in the next five years on the ice before in February 1992 at the Pittsburgh Penguins have been made. With these he won at the end of the season for the first and only time in his career the prestigious Stanley Cup. In summer 1995, the Swede returned to Philadelphia, where he ran aground three years. The 1998/99 season started the right shooter in the VEU Feldkirch in the Austrian Hockey League, for which he was active in eight competitive games before he signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL. He ended the season end his active career.

Immediately following his career Samuelsson was the 1999/2000 season assistant coach with the Trenton Titans of the East Coast Hockey League before joining the franchise in his ex- clubs Philadelphia Flyers. There he was assistant coach of the AHL farm team. In this capacity he worked until the relocation of the team in 2009, where he meantime the post of head coach Craig Berube took over in 2006/ 07, who managed the team only to the first six games. Since the 2009/10 season, the world champion from 1991 assistant coach in the resettled AHL farm team the Flyers, the Adirondack Phantoms.

Internationally

For Sweden, Samuelsson took part in the 1991 World Series, in which he became world champion with his team.

Awards and achievements

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