Niklas Eriksson

Niklas Urban Eriksson (born 17 February 1969) is a Swedish ice hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Eriksson played most of his years in Leksands IF, and has also represented IFK Helsingfors (Finland) and HC Pustertal Wölfe (Italy). With 721 games for Leksands IF Eriksson is the player with most games for the club, and as of 2019 Eriksson is one of the honored players with jersey number 16 up in the ceiling of Tegera Arena.

After ending his career as a player in 2008 Eriksson continued as a coach. After coaching Leksands IF Eriksson has coached Lillehammer IK (Norway) and Almtuna IS. He is since 2018 Head Coach for Örebro HK.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1987–88 Leksands IF SEL 16 1 8 9 4 2 0 0 0 0 1988–89 Leksands IF SEL 33 18 12 30 20 10 1 4 5 8 1989–90 Leksands IF SEL 40 18 16 34 16 3 0 2 2 2 1990–91 Leksands IF SEL 8 2 2 4 2 — — — — — 1990–91 Leksands IF Allsv 18 5 4 9 12 4 0 2 2 4 1991–92 Leksands IF SEL 22 10 7 17 16 — — — — — 1991–92 Leksands IF Allsv 18 5 13 18 22 11 3 5 8 4 1992–93 Leksands IF SEL 37 6 19 25 32 2 0 1 1 2 1993–94 Leksands IF SEL 33 10 25 35 34 4 1 2 3 2 1994–95 Leksands IF SEL 39 17 26 43 32 4 1 2 3 4 1995–96 Leksands IF SEL 34 7 17 24 24 5 0 0 0 8 1996–97 HIFK Liiga 48 8 11 19 37 — — — — — 1997–98 Leksands IF SEL 41 10 16 26 75 4 1 1 2 4 1998–99 Leksands IF SEL 49 9 9 18 30 4 0 1 1 6 1999–2000 Leksands IF SEL 44 11 17 28 61 — — — — — 2000–01 Leksands IF SEL 18 4 3 7 12 — — — — — 2001–02 Leksands IF Allsv 43 11 23 34 75 10 1 11 12 8 2002–03 Leksands IF SEL 50 8 14 22 22 5 1 2 3 0 2003–04 Leksands IF SEL 50 7 9 16 38 — — — — — 2004–05 Leksands IF Allsv 35 16 21 37 20 7 0 2 2 2 2005–06 HC Pustertal ITA 48 12 38 50 46 — — — — — 2006–07 HC Pustertal ITA 37 12 53 65 16 — — — — — SEL totals 514 138 200 338 418 43 8 12 20 36 Allsv totals 114 37 61 98 129 32 4 20 24 18

International Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM 1987 Sweden EJC 7 2 1 3 2 1989 Sweden WJC 7 6 3 9 6 1994 Sweden OG 8 0 1 1 0