Leif Holmqvist

Leif Holmqvist
Leif Holmqvist
	Leif Holmqvist in 1968
Born	November 12, 1942 (age 81); Gävle, Sweden
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight	172 lb (78 kg; 12 st 4 lb)
Position	Goaltender
Caught	Left
Played for	Strömsbro IF; AIK; London Lions; Indianapolis Racers; HV71; Hanhals IF
National team	Sweden
Playing career	1958–1982

Leif Erik "Honken" Holmqvist (born November 12, 1942) is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He is one of only three players to win the Golden Puck award twice, which he did while playing for AIK.^{[citation needed]}

Holmqvist played a season in England for the London Lions and one in the United States for the Indianapolis Racers.^{[citation needed]}

He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics.^[1]

Holmqvist was named best goaltender at the 1969 IIHF World Championships.^[2] After retiring from hockey, Holmqvist coached in the Norwegian National League.^[2]

He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.^[3]

References

^ Leif Holmqvist at Sports Reference
^ ^a ^b "Leif Holmqvist". legendsofhockey.com. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
^ "IIHF Hall of Fame". IIHF.com. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

External links

Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
A to Z Encyclopedia of Ice Hockey Archived February 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

Preceded by Bert-Ola Nordlander	Golden Puck 1968	Succeeded by Lars-Erik Sjöberg
Preceded by Lars-Erik Sjöberg	Golden Puck 1970	Succeeded by Håkan Wickberg

[1] Leif Holmqvist at Sports Reference

[legendsofhockey-2] "Leif Holmqvist". legendsofhockey.com. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

[3] "IIHF Hall of Fame". IIHF.com. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

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