Knut Henrik Spets is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 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 playing for Vålerenga

Vålerenga Ishockey

Vålerenga Ishockey is an Oslo-based ice hockey club, and a part of the Vålerenga IF multi-sports club. Their home arena is Jordal Amfi, located in eastern Oslo. Jordal Amfi was built for the 1952 Winter Olympics. The mother club was founded in 1913, but the did not take up ice hockey until the late...

 in GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...

. He is the older brother of fellow Norwegian international Lars Erik Spets

Lars Erik Spets

Lars Erik Spets is a Norwegian professional ice hockey player, who is currently playing for Lørenskog in the GET-ligaen. He is well known for being offensively gifted and for his long dark hair.-Early career:...

Early career

He started his career with Lillehammer in the 2000–01 GET-ligaen season, and Trondheim Black Panthers

Trondheim Black Panthers

Trondheim Black Panthers, founded 18 June 1986 as Trondheim Ishockeyklubb, is a defunct ice hockey club which was based in Trondheim, Norway. They played their home games in Leangen Ishall and were members of the highest ice hockey league in Norway from 1987 until 2008...

 in the 2001–02 season, before moving to Storhamar Dragons

Storhamar Dragons

The Storhamar Dragons is an ice hockey club based in Hamar, Norway and plays in the GET-ligaen. The club also includes the largest junior department in Norwegian ice hockey.The ice hockey department of the Storhamar IL was founded on 18 March 1957...

 before the 2002–03 season.

Moving abroad

In 2006, he signed with the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 team Arboga

IFK Arboga IK

IFK Arboga IK is an ice-hockey club from Arboga in Sweden. The team is currently playing in the third league level in Sweden, Division 1....

 in HockeyAllsvenskan, where he played 40 matches before moving to Nyköping

Nyköpings Hockey

Nyköpings Hockey is an ice-hockey club from Nyköping in Sweden. It was founded in 1990, then called IK Nyköping Hockey 90 or NH90, as a merger of the ice hockey section of Nyköpings BIS and Nyköpings HL Nyköpings Hockey is an ice-hockey club from Nyköping in Sweden. It was founded in 1990, then...

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Back home

23 May 2008, Spets decided to move back to Norway and play for Vålerenga Ishockey

Vålerenga Ishockey

Vålerenga Ishockey is an Oslo-based ice hockey club, and a part of the Vålerenga IF multi-sports club. Their home arena is Jordal Amfi, located in eastern Oslo. Jordal Amfi was built for the 1952 Winter Olympics. The mother club was founded in 1913, but the did not take up ice hockey until the late...

. Four months later he got united with his younger brother, Lars Erik Spets

Lars Erik Spets

Lars Erik Spets is a Norwegian professional ice hockey player, who is currently playing for Lørenskog in the GET-ligaen. He is well known for being offensively gifted and for his long dark hair.-Early career:...

, when he signed for the same club. In the 2009–10 GET-ligaen season

2009–10 GET-ligaen season

The 2009–10 GET-ligaen was the seventieth season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, Eliteserien . The regular season began play on 12 September 2009 and concluded on 2 March 2010, with Vålerenga claiming their twenty-seventh League Championship after defeating Lillehammer 2–1 on 26 February...

, he finished fourth in the point statistics.

International career

Spets played for the Norwegian national team during the 2007 IIHF World Championship

2007 IIHF World Championship

The 2007 IIHF World Championship were held between April 27 and May 13, 2007 in Moscow, Russia. It was the 71st annual world championship event run by the International Ice Hockey Federation...

. He has also played in national youth teams from the age of 17.

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