Mikael Andersson (ice hockey, born 1966)
Mikael Andersson ( born May 10, 1966 in Malmö ) is a former Swedish professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1980 to 2003 among others for the Buffalo Sabres, Hartford Whalers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League has played.
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Career
Mikael Andersson began his career as a hockey player with the Kungälvs IK, for whose team he participated in the 1980/81 season on the operation of the third-rate play Division 2. He then moved to the youth department of the Västra Frölunda, for its professional team of Center from 1982 to 1985, first in the Elitserien and after relegation in the 1983/84 season in the second-class Division 1 was active. In 1984 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the first round than a total of 18 players from the Buffalo Sabres. For Buffalo, he played from 1985 to 1989 in the National Hockey League. In parallel, he came to their farm team, the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League action and won with his team the 1987 Calder Cup.
In October 1989, Andersson of Buffalo's league rivals Hartford Whalers, for in the NHL, he was on the ice from 1989 to 1992 was. With their AHL farm team, he won in the 1990/91 season also the Calder Cup. On 29 June 1992 the Swede signed a contract as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he ran aground as a regular in the next seven years, before 20 March 1999, together with Sandy McCarthy in exchange for Colin Forbes and a fourth- round vote is for the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 at the Philadelphia Flyers. During the lockout in the 1994/95 season he returned for seven games for his former club Västra Frölunda before the game operation in the NHL was resumed.
After one and a half seasons Andersson again left the Philadelphia Flyers and was transferred in February 2000 to the New York Islanders. For this, he prepared until the end of the season 1999/2000 three goals in 19 games before. Subsequently, the World Champion from 1992 in Västra Frölunda did end his career. With the team from Gothenburg, whose captain he was from 2000 to 2003, he won the Swedish championship title in the 2002/03 season. Following this success the links Sagittarius ended his active career. Since 2003 he has worked for his former club Tampa Bay Lightning of the NHL as a scout.
Internationally
For Sweden, Andersson took at junior level at the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1983 and 1984, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 1984, 1985 and 1986 in part. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1992, 1993 and 1994, in 1991 at the Canada Cup, the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, and finally at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Awards and achievements
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Family
His father Ronny and his brothers Thomas and Niklas were also professional hockey players.