Per Ledin

Per Ledin (2013 )

Per Ledin ( born September 14, 1978 in Luleå ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is under contract with Luleå HF in the Svenska Hockey ligands since May 2013.

Career

Per Ledin started his career as a hockey player with the Vännäs HC, for which he made ​​his debut in the then third-tier Division 2 in the 1995/96 season. Then, the attacker moved to second division IF Björklöven with which he ascended each in the Elitserien 1998 and 2000. Despite the renewed rise he left following the 1999/2000 season his team and signed with the Baton Rouge Kingfish in the East Coast Hockey League, for whom he scored four goals in 26 games and was eight assists, before he in the course of the season 2000/ 01 returned to Sweden, where he received a contract with the first division Luleå HF, in which he had a regular place in each of the next five seasons.

In summer 2005, Ledin signed with Färjestad BK, with whom he was Swedish Champion for the first time in the 2005/06 season. This success was repeated with the HV71 the links Sagittarius 2008. For the season 2008/ 09, the national team has been committed by the Colorado Avalanche, for in the National Hockey League, he stood in three games on the ice. However, the majority of the playing time he spent at their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Lake Erie Monsters, so that he returned to the 2009/10 season to his former club HV71. When HV71 he belonged in the following four seasons to the players with the most penalty minutes and was in the 2012/13 season the meistbestrafte player of the Elitserien with 129 penalty minutes. In May 2013 he returned to Luleå HF.

Internationally

For Sweden Ledin took part in the 2008 World Championship, where he finished fourth with his team. He also won the 2007 Swedish Inline Hockey National Team World Champion.

Awards and achievements

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)