Peter Andersson (ice hockey b. 1965)
Peter Andersson ( born August 29, 1965 in Örebro ) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player and current coach, and - functionary, who played in his playing days from 1981 to 2005 among others for the New York Rangers and Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League has. Since 2013 he is an assistant coach of HC Lugano of the National League A.
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Career
Peter Andersson began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the junior department of Örebro HK, for the first team, he was active from 1981 to 1983 in the then still second-class Division 1. Following the 1982/83 season, in which he had 20 points scorer, ten goals in 25 games, he was voted the best junior hockey players in Sweden. In addition, the New York Rangers were aware of him, who selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the fourth round as a total of 73 players. First, however, the defenders remained in his native Sweden, where he from 1983 to 1989 for the Färjestad BK in the Elitserien, the highest Swedish league, took. With the team from Karlstad he won in 1986 and 1988 by the Swedish championship title in the 1986/87 season, he was named runner-up with his team.
In the summer of 1989, Andersson signed a contract with the second division Malmö IF, with whom he rose in the season 1989/90 right off the bat in the Elitserien and two years later even won the championship title. After his 1992 Olympics beorderten him the New York Rangers, who still had the rights to the player, to North America. There, however, he could be in the National Hockey League not enforce final, so that he stood in a half seasons with the Rangers in only 39 games on the ice, in which, however, he was able to achieve 17 points scorer. On 21 March 1994, the Swede was finally issued in exchange for a ninth -round option for the NHL Entry Draft 1994 to the Florida Panthers just before the trade deadline. By the end of the season, he completed eight more games for the team from Florida, before he returned after the season to Malmö.
From 1994 to 1996 Andersson was the Malmo IF in the Elitserien, where he finished the 1995/96 season at the Düsseldorf EC, the German master, he was at first. After another year in the Rhineland, he signed a contract with HC Lugano, for the 1997 to 2001, he ran aground in the Swiss National League A. During this period he won with Lugano in 1998/99 season the Swiss Championship. Last played the links Sagittarius 2001-2005 once again for Malmö in the Elitserien, where he was team captain in the 2004/05 season. Then he ended his active career at the age of 40 years.
After his career in the late former NHL players stayed with the Malmö Redhawks, which until 2008 he worked as a team manager in 2005. He then spent a year as general manager of the club, where he in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan again laced up ice for the club in the 2008 /09 season. From the season 2009/10 he was head coach at his hometown club Örebro HK and managed with this 2013 promotion to the Elitserien. He then left the club and was hired by the HC Lugano as assistant coach.
Internationally
For Sweden, Andersson took at junior level at the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1982 and 1983, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 1983, 1984 and 1985 in part. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships in 1993, 1994 and 2001, as well as at the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992.