Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) Role Ice hockey player Name Thomas Rhodin Current team Farjestad BK | Shoots Right Career start 1990 Position Defence Weight 86 kg | |
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HA teamFormer teams Leksands IFEisbaren Berlin (DEL)HC Fribourg-Gotteron (NLA)Geneve-Servette HC (NLA)Farjestads BK (SEL)Skare BK (Swe-3) | ||
Hockeymagasinet med Thomas Rhodin
Thomas Rhodin (born April 8, 1971 in Karlstad) is an ice hockey defenceman and is currently a player of Leksands IF.
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Career
Rhodin started his career with Färjestad in 1989 and has played a total of twelve season with them. He has also played with the German club Eisbären Berlin between 1997 and 2000 and with the Nationalliga A teams HC Fribourg-Gottéron (2003–05) and Genève-Servette HC (2005). In 2002, 2003 and 2005, he represented Sweden at the Ice Hockey World Championship. Before the start of the 2005/06, he was offered a contract by NHL club Dallas Stars, but turned it down. Instead, he signed with Färjestad, here was named as alternate captain and was than released on 9 April 2009, later on 8 May 2009 signed with Skåre BK. On 5 September 2009 it was announced that he had signed with Leksands IF. Thereby he opted to use a clause in his contract with Skåre BK which allowed him to sign with a team from a higher division.