Tommy Jakobsen 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...

 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...

 defenceman

Defenceman (ice hockey)

Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring...

. He currently plays for the Norwegian club Lørenskog IK.

He is the most experienced player on the Norwegian national team going into the 2009 IIHF World Championship

2009 IIHF World Championship

The 2009 IIHF World Championship took place in Switzerland from 24 April to 10 May. The games were played in the PostFinance Arena in Bern and Schluefweg in Kloten....

 with 125 official matches.
Jakobsen participated in the 1992 Winter Olympics

1992 Winter Olympics

The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 8 to 23 February 1992 in Albertville, France. They were the last Winter Olympics to be held the same year as the Summer Olympics, and the first where the Winter Paralympics...

 in Albertville

Albertville

Albertville is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.The town is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics.-Geography:...

, and the games at Lillehammer two years later.

He was his country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. He also wore the captaincy for the hockey team.

Jakobsen was expelled from the 2010 World Championship tournament

2010 IIHF World Championship

The 2010 IIHF World Championship was the 74th IIHF World Championship, an annual international ice hockey tournament. It took place between 7 and 23 May 2010 in Germany. The games were played in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, SAP Arena in Mannheim, and one game at Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen...

 for intentional physical contact with an on-ice official during a 12-1 loss to Canada.

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
1987–88	Furuset	NOR 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...		36	1	3	4	8		—	—	—	—	—
1988–89	Furuset	NOR		36	1	0	1	28		—	—	—	—	—
1989–90	Furuset	NOR		36	6	4	10	20		—	—	—	—	—
1990–91	Furuset	NOR		32	3	4	7	58		—	—	—	—	—
1991–92	Furuset	NOR		31	2	5	7	71		—	—	—	—	—
1992–93	Lillehammer IK	NOR		34	9	10	19	36		—	—	—	—	—
1993–94	Lillehammer IK	NOR		29	6	9	15	59		—	—	—	—	—
1994–95	Spektrum Flyers Spektrum Flyers Spektrum Flyers was a short-lived ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway. A merger between Manglerud Star and Furuset, it played the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons in Eliteserien, the premier ice hockey league in Norway, with home games at Oslo Spektrum.-History:...	NOR		31	11	16	27	44		—	—	—	—	—
1995–96	Djurgården IF Djurgårdens IF Hockey Djurgårdens IF Hockey are a professional ice hockey team based in Stockholm, Sweden. They are the ice hockey department of the sports club Djurgårdens IF. The department was formed in 1922 with the help of Wilhelm Arwe and have since then become Sweden's most successful team, having won the Swedish...	SEL Elitserien Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...		36	0	1	1	20		4	0	0	0	0
1996–97	Augsburger Panther Augsburger Panther The Augsburger Panther are a professional ice hockey team in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The team is based in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. They play their home games at the Curt Frenzel Stadion....	DEL		48	5	7	12	56		4	0	4	4	14
1997–98	Augsburger Panther	DEL		50	2	12	14	83		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	Augsburger Panther	DEL		52	3	7	10	87		5	0	1	1	2
1999–00	Augsburger Panther	DEL		55	5	15	20	93		2	0	0	0	0
2000–01	Augsburger Panther	DEL		46	1	11	12	87		—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Augsburger Panther	DEL		60	6	17	23	110		4	1	1	2	6
2002–03	DEG Metro Stars DEG Metro Stars The DEG Metro Stars is a German professional ice hockey team in Düsseldorf. It was Germany's most successful hockey club for a long time and had many international players...	DEL		51	9	19	28	50		5	0	2	2	10
2003–04	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		42	4	8	12	46		4	1	1	2	2
2004–05	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		51	5	11	16	89		—	—	—	—	—
2005–06	DEG Metro Stars	DEL		39	2	10	12	53		14	2	8	10	10
2006–07	Graz 99ers Graz 99ers -Current roster: Roster Updated as of: December 30, 2010 -Former players:...	EBEL Austrian Hockey League The Austrian Hockey League , called the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level ice hockey league in Austria.-History:...		55	5	34	39	205		—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	Graz 99ers	EBEL		40	5	20	25	85		—	—	—	—	—
2007–08	SC Bern SC Bern Schlittschuh Club Bern is an ice hockey team based in Bern, Switzerland. The club was the most attended team in Europe for the 2010-11 season, averaging 15,856 spectators....	NLA		3	0	0	0	4		3	0	1	1	0
2008–09	Graz 99ers	EBEL		48	1	15	16	50		2	0	0	0	0
2009–10	Lørenskog IK	NOR		45	4	17	21	68		5	0	0	0	2
DEL totals				494	42	117	159	794		38	4	17	21	44

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