Niklas Eriksson

Olympic medal record
Men's Ice hockey

Niklas Urban Eriksson (born February 17, 1969) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player, continuing as an ice hockey coach. He won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Eriksson played most of his years in Leksands IF, and has also represented IFK Helsingfors (Finland) and HC Pustertal Wölfe (Italy). With 721 games for Leksands IF Eriksson is the player with most games for the club, and as of 2019 Eriksson is one of the honored players with jersey number 16 up in the ceiling of Tegera Arena.

After ending his career as a player in 2008 Eriksson continued as a coach. After coaching Leksands IF Eriksson has coached Lillehammer IK (Norway) and Almtuna IS. He is since 2018 Head Coach for Örebro HK.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1987–88	Leksands IF	SEL		16	1	8	9	4		2	0	0	0	0
1988–89	Leksands IF	SEL		33	18	12	30	20		10	1	4	5	8
1989–90	Leksands IF	SEL		40	18	16	34	16		3	0	2	2	2
1990–91	Leksands IF	SEL		8	2	2	4	2		—	—	—	—	—
1990–91	Leksands IF	Allsv		18	5	4	9	12		4	0	2	2	4
1991–92	Leksands IF	SEL		22	10	7	17	16		—	—	—	—	—
1991–92	Leksands IF	Allsv		18	5	13	18	22		11	3	5	8	4
1992–93	Leksands IF	SEL		37	6	19	25	32		2	0	1	1	2
1993–94	Leksands IF	SEL		33	10	25	35	34		4	1	2	3	2
1994–95	Leksands IF	SEL		39	17	26	43	32		4	1	2	3	4
1995–96	Leksands IF	SEL		34	7	17	24	24		5	0	0	0	8
1996–97	HIFK	Liiga		48	8	11	19	37		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	Leksands IF	SEL		41	10	16	26	75		4	1	1	2	4
1998–99	Leksands IF	SEL		49	9	9	18	30		4	0	1	1	6
1999–2000	Leksands IF	SEL		44	11	17	28	61		—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	Leksands IF	SEL		18	4	3	7	12		—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Leksands IF	Allsv		43	11	23	34	75		10	1	11	12	8
2002–03	Leksands IF	SEL		50	8	14	22	22		5	1	2	3	0
2003–04	Leksands IF	SEL		50	7	9	16	38		—	—	—	—	—
2004–05	Leksands IF	Allsv		35	16	21	37	20		7	0	2	2	2
2005–06	HC Pustertal	ITA		48	12	38	50	46		—	—	—	—	—
2006–07	HC Pustertal	ITA		37	12	53	65	16		—	—	—	—	—
SEL totals				514	138	200	338	418		43	8	12	20	36
Allsv totals				114	37	61	98	129		32	4	20	24	18

International

Year	Team	Event		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1987	Sweden	EJC		7	2	1	3	2
1989	Sweden	WJC		7	6	3	9	6
1994	Sweden	OG		8	0	1	1	0

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