Modo Hockey

The club was founded on 27 March 1921 as Alfredshems IK, however it existed without an ice hockey program until 1938.[1] Twenty years later, in 1958, the club joined Hockeyallsvenskan, Sweden's highest division at the time.[1] Alfredshems IK played under that moniker until 1963,[1] when it was renamed Modo AIK after their main sponsor, industrial corporation Mo och Domsjö AB (commonly abbreviated MoDo). The following year, the club made the newly constructed Kempehallen their home arena.[1] In 1975, Modo AIK joined the Elitserien as one of the premier league's original ten teams. Four seasons later, Modo AIK won their first regular-season championship in 1979, en route to defeating previous ten-time champion Djurgårdens IF to also capture their first Le Mat trophy as playoff champions.

In 1987, Modo AIK dropped the "AIK" suffix to the club's name, becoming known simply as Modo Hockey. After coming off its championship year in 1979, the club spent the majority of the 1980s with losing records.[2] Coming out of the club's junior program, however, hometown stars Peter Forsberg and Markus Näslund played their rookie seasons with the senior team in 1990–91. Näslund went on to lead Modo Hockey in scoring as an eighteen-year-old in his second season with the club,[3] while Forsberg became the first Modo player to win the Guldpucken as Swedish player of the year since Nils Johansson in 1964, capturing the title back-to-back in 1993 and 1994.

Former logo

With both Forsberg and Näslund having been chosen as first-round selections in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft, however, their time in Sweden was limited. Näslund departed for the NHL in 1993, while Forsberg remained to lead Modo to their second Elitserien playoff final in 1994, where they lost to Malmö IF. Soon after Forsberg's inevitable departure to the NHL in 1995, identical twin brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin represented the next wave of young talent coming through the Modo system. At seventeen-years-old, they captured the Guldpucken together as co-recipients in 1999, while leading Modo to a 33-win season (in a 50-game schedule) for the club's second regular-season title. As second- and third-overall selections in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, respectively, Daniel and Henrik left Modo for the NHL in 2000. Regardless, Modo became consistent contenders for the Le Mat trophy, appearing in three out of four playoff finals – losing all three – between 1999 and 2002.

Due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout, many former Modo stars returned to the team from the NHL, including Forsberg, Näslund, the Sedins and František Kaberle. Several foreign NHL players also signed with Modo, including Canadian defenceman Adrian Aucoin and American forward Dan Hinote. Swedish goaltender Tommy Salo (a product of VIK Västerås HK) joined as the starting goaltender. Despite a bolstered lineup, Modo finished sixth in the regular season.[4]

Having played in Kempehallen as their home arena since 1964, Modo moved into the then newly constructed Swedbank Arena, which was partially funded by former star Forsberg and his father Kent, who was also a former club head coach.[5] Modo returned to Elitserien supremacy that season, defeating Linköpings HC on April 14, 2007, to capture their second Le Mat trophy in franchise history. The championship-winning club featured the 2007 Guldpucken-recipient Per Svartvadet, team leading-scorer Per-Åge Skrøder and future NHL defenceman Tobias Enström. The return of Niklas Sundström, who had originally played with the club alongside Forsberg and Naslund in the early 1990s, bolstered Modo's roster as he finished second in team scoring in his first season back from the NHL.[6] An approximate 8,000 fans were in attendance at the Swedbank Arena for Modo's first championship in 28 years.[5]

In the 2008–09 season the team finished ninth in Elitserien, thus missing the playoffs. In the 2009–10 season, Forsberg returned to play for Modo on a conditioning-basis to prepare for an anticipated return to the NHL after having been inactive for a season due to injury. With Näslund back in Sweden, having retired after the 2008–09 NHL season, he correctly predicted that Forsberg would not return to the NHL and finish the season with Modo instead.[7] Several days later, on November 17, 2009, Näslund announced he was coming out of retirement to also rejoin Modo with Forsberg. The announcement crashed the Modo web server as a result of the heavy volume of people visiting the site. As a board member of the club, Näslund also announced he would play without a salary, along with Forsberg.[8] Despite Näslund's and Forsberg's return to Modo, the team finished ninth and thus missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year. After the 2009–10 season, Näslund retired again, and Forsberg left Modo again. After Näslund's second retirement, he was named the general manager of Modo.

In the 2010–11 season the team were closer to relegation to HockeyAllsvenskan than since 1990. The team finished last in Elitserien after a very tight battle in the bottom of Elitserien and thus were forced to play in Kvalserien for the first time since 1990 (the team survived the 1990 Kvalserien). After the 2011 Kvalserien's ninth round, Modo and Södertälje both had 17 points. Modo and Södertälje met each other in Fjällräven Center in the final round, for a game that directly decided which team would be relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan. Modo won the game 2–0 and thus stayed in Elitserien for the 2011–12 season. Nearly two weeks later, Peter Forsberg was named an assistant general manager of the Modo organization.[9] Just a day later, on April 21, 2011, Modo Hockey's then head coach Charles "Challe" Berglund was forced to leave the club.[10]

On May 2, 2011, Ulf Samuelsson, who had been an assistant coach in the National Hockey League (NHL), was named the head coach of Modo Hockey,[11] a position he held for two seasons.[12][13]

Updated July 14, 2019.[15][16]

#	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
34		Erik Hanses	G	L	30	2016	Leksand, Sweden
1		Oliver Dackell	G	L	21	2019	Sweden
31		Linus Lundin	G	L	27	2018	Stockholm, Sweden
26		Tom Hedberg (A)	D	L	20	2018	Stockholm, Sweden
33		Victor Berglund	D	R	20	2016	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
63		Tommy Enström	D	L	33	2016	Nordingrå, Sweden
39		Tobias Enström (C)	D	L	35	2018	Nordingrå, Sweden
27		Anton Öhman	D	R	24	2019	Umeå, Sweden
6		Mattias Norlinder	D	L	20	2019	Kramfors, Sweden
41		Oscar Hedman (A)	D	L	34	2013	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
20		Mathias From	LW	R	22	2019	Frederikshavn, Denmark
38		Joakim Hagelin	LW	L	31	2018	Linköping, Sweden
14		Henrik Björklund (A)	RW	R	29	2016	Karlstad, Sweden
40		Kalle Jellvert	C	L	24	2018	Örebro, Sweden
22		Jonathan Johnson	C	L	27	2017	Gävle, Sweden
12		Fredrik Olofsson	C/LW	L	24	2019	Helsingborg, Sweden
89		Patrik Karlkvist	RW	R	28	2016	Trosa, Sweden
13		Anton Karlström	RW	R	22	2016	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
17		Magnus Häggström	RW/C	R	33	2017	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
28		Linus Pettersson	RW	R	20	2018	Gideå, Sweden
23		Daniel Sylwander	C/LW	L	27	2018	Ängelholm, Sweden
29		Kim Rosdahl	RW	R	24	2019	Malmö, Sweden
7		Tobias Åhström	LW	L	21	2017	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
25		Lukas Wernblom	C/LW	L	19	2016	Örnsköldsvik, Sweden