Per Håkan Loob (born July 3, 1960) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 player who is currently the president of hockey operations of Färjestads BK

Färjestads BK

Färjestads Bollklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey team based in Karlstad. Färjestad has had 18 Swedish Championship final appearances, winning nine times since Elitserien was started in 1975. The team plays in the highest Swedish league, and have done so since 1965...

 in the Swedish Elitserien

Elitserien

Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...

, for whom he played much of his playing career.

Loob played right wing

Winger (ice hockey)

Winger, in the game of hockey, is a forward position of a player whose primary zone of play on the ice is along the outer playing area. They typically work by flanking the centre forward. Originally the name was given to forward players who went up and down the sides of the rink...

 for the Calgary Flames

Calgary Flames

The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...

 from 1983 to 1989. In the 1989 playoffs Loob was very strong offensively and defensively, a major factor in Calgary's only Stanley Cup. He then returned to his Swedish team, Färjestads BK in Karlstad

Karlstad

Karlstad is a city, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city had 61,685 inhabitants in 2010 out of a municipal total that during the first quarter 2010 was 84,885 inhabitants...

, where he was a star player until his retirement in 1996. He is one of very few ice hockey players who have won the Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal, and a World Championship title

Triple Gold Club

The Triple Gold Club is a term used to describe ice hockey players and coaches who have won an Olympic Games gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the National Hockey League...

, being one of that group's 3 first members along with Tomas Jonsson

Tomas Jonsson

Tomas Jonsson, is a former ice hockey player from Sweden. He is the current head coach of EfB Ishockey in the Danish AL-Bank Ligaen and assistant coach for the Danish national ice hockey team...

 and Mats Näslund

Mats Näslund

Mats Näslund , nicknamed "Le Petit Viking", is a retired Swedish ice hockey player. He played as a left wing.-NHL career:...

. He has also won the Swedish championship, in 1981 with Färjestad. He is now the general manager of Färjestad. The Swedish Elite League has in honour of him introduced the Håkan Loob Trophy

Håkan Loob Trophy

The Håkan Loob Trophy is the annual award for the Elitserien player who scores the most goals during the regular season. It was created by Svenska Hockeyligan and Canal+ in honour of Håkan Loob, who holds the Elitserien record for most goals in a season...

 for the leading goal scorer in the league.

He holds the records for most goals (42) and most points (76) during a regular season in the Swedish Elitserien, both set in 36 games in 1982–83. He is also the only Swedish player who has scored 50 goals or more in one season in the NHL

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

.

Loob's older brother Peter

Peter Loob

Peter Roland Loob is a retired Swedish ice hockey player.Loob, a defenceman, played mostly in the Swedish hockey league, but has also three appearances in the Swedish national team in the 1983 World Ice Hockey Championships...

 is also a former ice hockey player, and played briefly in the NHL and the AHL

American Hockey League

The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...

.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...	Team	League		GP	G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to...	A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal...	Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one...	PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1979–80	Färjestads BK Färjestads BK Färjestads Bollklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey team based in Karlstad. Färjestad has had 18 Swedish Championship final appearances, winning nine times since Elitserien was started in 1975. The team plays in the highest Swedish league, and have done so since 1965...	SEL Elitserien Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...		36	15	4	19	20		—	—	—	—	—
1980–81	Färjestads BK	SEL		36	23	6	29	16		7	5	3	8	6
1981–82	Färjestads BK	SEL		36	26	15	41	28		2	1	0	1	0
1982–83	Färjestads BK	SEL		36	42	34	76	26		8	10	4	14	6
1983–84	Calgary Flames Calgary Flames The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...	NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...		77	30	25	55	22		11	2	3	5	2
1984–85	Calgary Flames	NHL		78	37	35	72	14		4	3	3	6	0
1985–86	Calgary Flames	NHL		68	31	36	67	36		22	4	10	14	6
1986–87	Calgary Flames	NHL		68	18	26	44	26		5	1	2	3	0
1987–88	Calgary Flames	NHL		80	50	56	106	47		9	8	1	9	4
1988–89	Calgary Flames	NHL		79	27	58	85	44		22	8	9	17	4
1989–90	Färjestads BK	SEL		40	22	31	53	24		10	9	5	14	2
1990–91	Färjestads BK	SEL		40	33	25	58	16		8	6	4	10	8
1991–92	Färjestads BK	SEL		40	37	29	66	14		6	2	2	4	2
1992–93	Färjestads BK	SEL		40	25	26	51	28		3	4	1	5	0
1993–94	Färjestads BK	SEL		22	9	11	20	12		—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	Färjestads BK	SEL		39	13	25	38	58		4	2	0	2	2
1995–96	Färjestads BK	SEL		40	17	32	49	62		8	4	4	8	2
SEL totals				405	262	238	501	304		56	43	23	65	28
NHL totals				450	193	236	429	189		73	26	28	54	16

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