Per Eklund (ice hockey)
Per Eklund ( born July 9, 1970 in Sollentuna ) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player and current - functionary and coach, who in seasons 2000/ 01 and 2006/ 07 for the Krefeld Penguins, or for the Straubing Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga was active. During his engagements with the Straubing Tigers Eklund presented with his teammate Vitali Janke and the Berlin players Norman Martens and Patrick Jarrett to a new DEL record. On 15 October 2006, he was with the goal to 2:3 one of the four goal scorers of two teams that achieved a score in just 59 seconds ( 75 seconds ) of a game.
Career
Eklund began his career in 1987 at Väsby IK in the then second highest Swedish league, Division 1, where the striker was one of the point best players in the team and scored in the five years that he was at the club under contract in 118 games 118 points scorer. For the 1992/93 season he moved within the league to Huddinge IK. After two years he left the club and joined the first division Djurgårdens IF, where he received his first appearances in the top division, the Elitserien. When he again performed well in his first season in the Swedish elite class, some talent scouts from the National Hockey League have been aware of the right-handed shooters. Finally, there were the leaders of the Detroit Red Wings, who selected him during the NHL Entry Draft in 1995 in the seventh round at 182 position. Eklund remained in the period following two seasons at Djurgårdens IF, before he in the American Hockey League with the Adirondack Red Wings, the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, joined in the summer of 1997.
Shortly before his move to North America, he was nominated in 1997 for the Swedish national team, with which he participated in the World Championships in Finland in the same year. There he could reach the second place with his team after a final defeat with 1:2 games against Canada. Eklund graduated eleven games and scored six points scorer, but he had a plus / minus stats by 3.
In the Adirondack Red Wings, he remained despite good statistics, in 76 games he was able to score 50 times, only a year and ended his involvement in the AHL. He returned to his native Sweden and signed a contract with Djurgårdens IF, for which he was already active between the years 1994 and 1997. For the season 2000/ 01 he submitted the Krefeld Penguins of the German ice hockey league contract offer, after which he moved to Germany in the summer of 2000. Also in Krefeld he stayed only one season and then joined the Linköpings HC of the Elitserien at, for whom he played in the subsequent period of four years. After another short spell at Djurgårdens IF and the Straubing Tigers of the DEL 2007, he moved into the fourth highest Swedish league, Division 2, Sollentuna HC, where he stood the next two years under contract before Eklund after the 2008 season / 09 his playing career ended. He then took over at Sollentuna HC, the Office of the Director of Hockey Operations, before the Swede was also appointed to the 2010/11 season for head coach of the team.