Ice hockey player
| Leif Holmqvist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Leif Holmqvist in 1968 | |||
| Born |
(1942-11-12) 12 November 1942 (age 82) 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 12 November 1942) is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender. He is one of only four players to win the Golden Puck award twice, which he did while playing for AIK.
Holmqvist played a season in England for the London Lions and one in the United States for the Indianapolis Racers.
He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics.
Holmqvist was named best goaltender at the 1969 IIHF World Championships. After retiring from hockey, Holmqvist coached in the Norwegian National League.
He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1999.
References
- Leif Holmqvist at Sports Reference
- ^ "Leif Holmqvist". legendsofhockey.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- "IIHF Hall of Fame". IIHF.com. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- "Sura-legender i Hall of Fame". Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden. 3 December 2003. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
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 11 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
| Preceded byBert-Ola Nordlander | Golden Puck 1968 |
Succeeded byLars-Erik Sjöberg |
| Preceded byLars-Erik Sjöberg | Golden Puck 1970 |
Succeeded byHåkan Wickberg |
- 1942 births
- AIK IF players
- HV71 players
- Indianapolis Racers players
- Living people
- London Lions (ice hockey) players
- Ice hockey people from Gävle
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in England
- Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
- Swedish ice hockey goaltenders
- Ice hockey players with retired numbers
- Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
- Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
- Expatriate ice hockey players in England