Tomas Nord

Tomas Mikael Nord (born July 18, 1958) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman. He played fifteen seasons in Elitserien, for Leksands IF and AIK IF. He won the Swedish Championship in 1984 with AIK.

Playing career Nord started playing hockey in Boro/Landsbro IF, debuting at senior level during the 1973–74 season in Sweden's Division 2. During the 1974–75 season he played his second season for Boro/Landsbro in Division 2, and made his international debut for Sweden's U16 team, as well as representing Småland at the 1974 TV-pucken where he won the Lill-Strimmastipendiet (scholarship; namesake of Lennart "Lill-Strimma" Svedberg), awarded to the tournament's best defenceman.

For the 1975–76 season Nord signed with Leksands IF to play junior hockey with Leksands' U20 team. The following season Nord was brought up to Leksands' senior team in Elitserien, playing seven regular season games and five playoff games. In 1977–78, he earned a more regular position on Leksands' defence, playing 33 games and scoring twelve points. During the season, Nord also played three international games for Sweden's U20 team. In his second full season with Leksand Nord again scored twelve points and made his senior international debut with Tre Kronor, playing two games. Leksand again qualified for the playoffs, where they lost in the semifinals against MoDo AIK. After having a mediocre 1979–80 season, scoring only one goal and seven points in 34 games and going pointless in two playoff games, Nord went on to improve his points total for three consecutive seasons, including scoring a career high fourteen goals and 27 points during the 1982–83 season. Nord scored a career high four goals in one game during the 1982–83 season in a 9–2 win over Brynäs IF. Despite Nord's development into a top offensive defenceman in Elitserien, Leksand failed to qualify for the playoffs during these three season and Nord left the team to sign with AIK for the 1983–84 season.

While playing for AIK Nord's production dropped as he only scored four goals and registered 18 points during his first season. In the playoffs, AIK won the best-of-three semifinal series two to one against Södertälje SK, and won the Swedish Championship in the final series against Djurgårdens IF, with Nord scoring the game-winning goal in the decisive game three of the series. In the six playoff games, Nord scored three goals and four points, which made him the highest scoring defenceman in the playoffs.

Between 1992 and 1995, Nord served as an assistant coach to Wayne Fleming in Leksand.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1976–77 Leksands IF SEL 70112 50000 1977–78 Leksands IF SEL 33751224 ————— 1978–79 Leksands IF SEL 29931225 30002 1979–80 Leksands IF SEL 3416719 20000 1980–81 Leksands IF SEL 29561122 ————— 1981–82 Leksands IF SEL 361081814 ————— 1982–83 Leksands IF SEL 291413276 ————— 1983–84 AIK IF SEL 34414188 63140 1984–85 AIK IF SEL 329112018 ————— 1985–86 Leksands IF SEL 35581312 ————— 1986–87 Leksands IF SEL 32281012 ————— 1987–88 Leksands IF SEL 343131612 30110 1988–89 Leksands IF SEL 369101910 70112 1989–90 Leksands IF SEL 341101110 30000 1990–91 Leksands IF SEL 211238 ————— SEL totals 45580118198202 293364