Hockey Legend: Hakan Loob
November 4, 2006 by Tyler
Filed under Hockey Legends
After being selected at 181 overall in the 1980 NHL Entry draft, Hakan Loob blazed up and down the right wing for the Calgary Flames from 1983-1989. Skating with the likes of Lanny MacDonald and Joe Nieuwendyk, it was easy to overlook this highly-skilled scoring machine.
Loob, a native or Sweden, returned to his home country after winning the Stanley Cup with Calgary in 1989, to play for 7 more seasons in the Swedish Elite league. In Sweden, Loob is not overlooked and in fact has a trophy named after him in the Swedish Elite League. The Hakan Loob Trophy is awarded to the leading goal scorer in the Swedish Elite League each season.
Hakan Loob Fast Facts :
- First Swedish player to score 50 goals in one NHL Season 1987-1988
- NHL First Team All-Star 1987-1988
- Scored a goal in his first NHL Game vs. Vancouver on Goaltender Richard Brodeur
- Moved back to Sweden in 1989 to continue his career,maintain his roots and raise his son
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | ||||||
| Years | Teams | GP | G | A | TP | PIM |
| 1983-89 | Calgary | 450 | 193 | 236 | 429 | 189 |
Colin's Daddy on Mon, 6th Nov 2006 9:16 pm
A couple years ago, hounding outside a hotel in Boston, a security guard walked up and told me to leave.
My response, in my best Swedish accent, was: “Hakan Loob?”
“You don’t speak English?” the guard asked.
“Hakan Loob? Hakan Loob?”
“What are you speaking?” the guard asked. “Finnish? Dutch? Swedish?”
“Yah. Yah. Hakan Loob. Hakan Loob.”
National Hockey League Digest » Borje Salming: Hockey Legend on Sat, 24th Feb 2007 10:30 am
[...] Borje Salming was one of the first great Swedish players to make the trip from their homeland to play hockey in the NHL when he joined the toronto Maple Leafs in the 1973-74 season. He paved the way for the Swedish influx of players like Hakan Loob and Mats Naslund to make their way into the National Hockey League. [...]