Niclas Hävelid

Niclas Hävelid
Medal record
Representing Sweden
Men's Ice Hockey
World Junior Championship
World Championships
Olympic Games

Niclas Hävelid
Niclas Hävelid
Born	April 12, 1973 (age 51); Stockholm, Sweden
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position	Defense
Shoots	Left
NHL team; Former teams	Atlanta Thrashers; Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
NHL draft	83rd overall, 1999; Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Playing career	1999–present

Niclas Hävelid (born April 12, 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a professional ice hockey defenseman and Alternate Captain who currently plays for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. While born in Stockholm, he was raised in Enköping, roughly 78 km west of his birthplace.

Playing Career

Hävelid began his hockey career playing locally around his home of Enköping in League III of the SIHA. After two seasons with the Enköpings he played with the Arlanda Wings for the 1990-91 season. The following year, he moved to AIK, a team based in Solna, just north of Stockholm. Currently in the SIHA's second highest league, AIK had at the time of Hävelid's arrival won the Swedish championship seven times (1934, 1935, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1982, 1984) and had been runner-up six other times (1930, 1936, 1940, 1968, 1978, 1981).

He continued with AIK until the 1998-99 season when he went to the Malmö Redhawks.

Hävelid was drafted 83rd overall by the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.

In 1999, he played in his first North American season, notching nine points (two goals, seven assists) in 50 games with Anaheim, making his NHL debut at Dallas on October 2, 1999. A month later, he recorded his first goal, assist and multiple-point game in the NHL in one night against the Blackhawks and legendary goaltender Jocelyn Thibault on November 19^th. In December, he would continue to post four (one goal, three assists) out of nine points for the season in a nine game span from December 12-29, 1999. The new year would not begin as well. With a broken finger, Hävelid would miss 22 games, from January 15-March 8, 2000. His lone two game minor league stint for post injury conditioning would be with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks. He was scoreless in both games.

In the early months of the 2000-01 season with the Ducks, Hävelid earned six of his ten assists for the year in a nine game span from October 16-30, 2000. This would include a career-best four game point streak. He would set yet another career high with two goals and four points against Columbus on December 13, 2000.

January 2001 would bring yet another disappointing injury, a tear in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament, or ACL, and a partial tear in the Medial collateral ligament as well, suffered during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on January 15, 2001. He would miss 35 games from the injury, however still retain his ranking as third on the club in Average Time On Ice of 21:51.

While the 2001-02 season would only generate one goal and two assists, the 2002-03 season would prove to be one to remember.

He led the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to their first NHL Western Conference Championship and the

In the summer of 2004, he was traded to the Thrashers for defenseman Kurtis Foster.

Due to the NHL lockout, he signed as a free agent with Södertälje and re-joined the Atlanta Thrashers the following year, where he plays at the current time.

Awards

2006 - Dan Snyder Memorial Award

Career statistics

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1988-89	Enköpings	SIHA	7	0	1	1	0	-	-	-	-	-
1989-80	Enköpings	SIHA	24	1	2	3	28	-	-	-	-	-
1990-91	Arlanda Wings	SIHA	30	2	3	5	22	-	-	-	-	-
1991-92	AIK	SIHA	10	0	0	0	2	-	-	-	-	-
1992-93	AIK	SIHA	30	1	2	3	2	3	0	0	0	2
1993-94	AIK	SIHA	22	3	9	12	14	-	-	-	-	-
1994-95	AIK	SIHA	40	3	7	10	38	-	-	-	-	-
1995-96	AIK	SIHA	40	5	6	11	30	-	-	-	-	-
1996-97	AIK	SIHA	49	3	6	9	42	7	1	2	3	8
1997-98	AIK	SIHA	43	8	4	12	42	10	1	3	4	39
1998-99	Malmö Redhawks	SIHA	50	10	12	22	42	8	0	4	4	10
1999-00	Anaheim Mighty Ducks	NHL	50	2	7	9	20	-	-	-	-	-
	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL	2	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-
2000-01	Anaheim Mighty Ducks	NHL	47	4	10	14	34	-	-	-	-	-
2001-02	Anaheim Mighty Ducks	NHL	52	1	2	3	40	-	-	-	-	-
2002-03	Anaheim Mighty Ducks	NHL	82	11	22	33	30	21	0	4	4	2
2003-04	Anaheim Mighty Ducks	NHL	79	6	20	26	28	-	-	-	-	-
2004-05	Södertälje	SIHA	46	2	2	4	60	10	1	1	2	18
2005-06	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL	82	4	28	32	48	-	-	-	-	-
2006-07	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL	77	3	18	21	52	4	0	2	2	0
SIHA totals			391	38	54	92	322	38	3	10	13	77

NHL totals			469	31	107	138	252	25	0	6	6	2

International Play

Played for Team Sweden in^[1]

1991 - European Junior Championships
1993 - World Junior Championship
1995 - Izvestia Tournament
1998 - World Championships (With current teammate Johan Hedberg)
2004 - World Championships
2006 - Olympic Games

			Regular season
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1991		European Junior Championships	6	1	0	1	0
1993		World Junior Championships	7	0	0	0	10
1998		World Championships	9	0	2	2	8
2004		World Championships	9	0	2	2	0
2006		Olympic Games	7	0	0	0	4
Team Sweden Totals			38	1	4	5	14

Career Transactions

Selected by the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft as a 3rd round pick, 83rd overall.
Traded to Atlanta for Kurtis Foster on June 26, 2004.

Charitable Work

Niclas Hävelid currently operates an Atlanta based charity named Havelid's Helpers that operates in conjunction with Habitat For Humanity to provide housing for low income families.^[2]

Personal Life

Hävelid is known as a fan of soccer, and his favorite team is Manchester United, a soccer club in the British Premier League.

He is married to wife, Anna, and has three children, a daughter, Victoria, and twin sons, Mattias and Hugo.

References

^ "World Championship and Olympic Games players in alphabetical order since 1920" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-02-21.
^ "Havelid Launches Havelid's Helpers' to Benefit Habitat for Humanity". Retrieved 2008-02-21.