IK Oskarshamn

IK Oskarshamn
City Sweden Oskarshamn, Sweden
League HockeyAllsvenskan
Founded 1970 (1970)
Home arena Be-Ge Hockey Center
Colours               
General manager Sweden Roger Jönsson
Head coach Sweden Fredrik Söderström
Website www.ikoskarshamn.se

IK Oskarshamn is an ice hockey club from Oskarshamn in Sweden. The team is currently playing in the second highest league in Sweden, HockeyAllsvenskan. Head coach is Fredrik Söderström.

IK Oskarshamn (white uniforms) in a game against AIK.

General information

IK Oskarshamn (abbreviated as IKO) was founded in 1970 when the town's two then existing ice hockey teams, Oskarshamns AIK and IFK Oskarshamn, were merged into one. The team has twice reached the final qualification stage for the highest league in Sweden. This happened in the 2000–01 season and in the 2004–05 season. The team play their home games in Arena Oskarshamn which has a capacity of 3,424 people. The arena was first built in 1974 but was completely renovated and enlarged in 2005.

History

Seasons

In the 2000–01 season and in the 2004–05 season IK Oskarshamn succeeded to reach the Kvalserien. In Kvalserien the team finished in 5th place the first year and in 6th place the second year. In the 2010–11 season IK Oskarshamn finished 9th in Hockeyallsvenskan, six points from playing in the new pre-qualification.[1] Both in 2011-12 season and in 2012-13 season IK Oskarshamn finished topp-7 and reached the Playoff round. IK Oskarshamns Evan McGrath was the top scorer in the HockeyAllsvenskan regular season with 50 points in 52 games.[2][3]

Players

Current roster

Updated on August 5, 2014.[4]

# Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
1 Canada Dan Bakala G 30 2013 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
31 Sweden Erik Källgren G 22 Loan Stockholm, Sweden
6 Sweden Daniel Ljungkvist D 37 2009 Småland, Sweden
8 Sweden Fredrik Styrman D 27 2013 Kalix, Sweden
18 Sweden Alexander Younan D 21 Loan Jönköping,Sweden
19 Denmark Emil L. Kristensen D 26 Loan Esbjerg, Denmark
22 Sweden John Nyberg D 22 Loan Ljungby, Sweden
29 Sweden Linus Morin D 31 2008 Uppsala, Sweden
49 Sweden Oscar Engsund D 25 2013 Oskarshamn, Sweden
51 United States Cameron Burt D 31 2015 Detroit, Michigan, United States
7 Canada Nicolas Deschamps LW 28 2015 LaSalle, Quebec, Canada
10 Sweden Victor Löfstedt RW 32 Loan Sweden
1 Sweden Filiph Engsund C 25 2014 Göteborg, Sweden
13 Sweden Kim Tallberg LW 26 Loan Norrköping, Sweden
16 Finland Arsi Piispanen C 33 2013 Jyväskylä, Finland
17 Sweden Jonas Engström LW 27 2015 Södertälje, Sweden
37 Denmark Anders H. Poulsen C 27 2014 Herning, Denmark
39 Sweden Victor Svensson C 28 2012 Karlskrona, Sweden
44 Sweden Pontus Widerström C 24 Loan Göteborg, Sweden
62 Sweden Manuel Ågren LW 24 2014 Oskarshamn, Sweden
68 Sweden Joakim Hagelin LW 29 2009 Linköping, Sweden
70 Sweden Simon Mattsson RW 25 2015 Ekerö, Sweden
78 Sweden Victor Öhman C 23 2015 Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
79 United States Mitch Wahl RW 28 2015 Seal Beach, California, United States


Left: Goaltender Michal Zajkowski. Right: IKO play their home games in Arena Oskarshamn.

Leaders

Head coach for the 2014-15 season is Fredrik Söderström, assisted by Arto Miettinen and Johan Lundskog.

Head Coaches of IK Oskarshamn[5]
Name Year
Charles Franzén2007-2009
Tommy Salo2009-2010
Lenny Eriksson2010
Lars Ivarsson2010-2011
Fredrik Söderström2011-2016

Notable former players

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
  2. ↑ Swehockey.se - Scoring leaders of Hockeyallsvenskan 2012-13.
  3. ↑ IK Oskarshamn webpage information Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "IK Oskarshamn roster". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 2014-08-05.
  5. ↑ "Historien om Ishockeyklubben Oskarshamn" (in Swedish). IK Oskarshamn.com. Archived from the original on 2014-11-13. Retrieved 2014-08-06.

Coordinates: 57°15′50.8″N 16°26′08″E / 57.264111°N 16.43556°E / 57.264111; 16.43556


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