Shot Left Role Ice hockey player Career end 2001 National team Sweden Height 1.80 m Position Winger, Centerman | Playing career Weight 80 kg Played for HV71, JYP Jyvaskyla Name Stefan Ornskog Career start 1987 | |
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Born 4 April 1969 (age 54)
Jonkoping, SWE ( 1969-04-04 ) | ||
Stefan Bror Karl Örnskog (born 4 April 1969) is a Swedish ice hockey player whose professional career as a left wing/centre lasted from 1987 to 2001 and was capped with a gold medal at the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics in neighboring Norway, as well as with a silver and a bronze medal at the World Championships.
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Playing career
A native of Jönköping, the capital of Jönköping County in southern Sweden's Småland province, Örnskog enjoyed a 14-season career, playing 12 of them for his home town club HV71 in the country's top elite league, Elitserien. The 1994–95 season and part of the 1999–2000 season was spent in Finland playing for JYP in the SM-liiga. On 26 December 2001, Örnskogs's jersey, no. 15, along with Fredrik Stillman's no. 14, was retired during a ceremony before a match against Frölunda HC in Kinnarps Arena.
Awards
International play
Örnskog has played for Sweden in the following competitions: