- Swan River Centennial Arena
- Swan River, Manitoba, Canada. Built in 1967.
Home ice for : Swan
Valley Stampeders
Capacity : 1,300
Ice pad size : 196 feet x 85 feet
- Swan Valley Stampeders [web
site]
Swan River, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1998. Junior 'A' hockey team. Team
nickname is 'the Stamps'. Play in the Manitoba Junior Hockey
League 1999- .
Home ice : Swan
River Centennial Arena
Team colours : blue, white black & gold
General manager : Jeff Wiest 1999-01, Mark Johnston 2001-02,
Leonard Strandberg 2002-
Head coach : Jeff Wiest 1999-01, Mark Johnston 2001-02, Del
Pedrick 2002- - Swarbrick, George (- )
-
International Career : Played for Canada in the 1964
Olympics and the 1964 World
Championships.
Medals : Won World Championship
bronze in 1964.
- Sweater
- Another name for the hockey jersey.
- Sweater Numbers
- See Shirt #s
- "Sweater, The"
- A short film made in 1980. A French Canadian boy endures the shame of having the hockey sweater of the wrong team.
- Sweden - Men's National Team
- See Sweden
- Sweden Globen Cup
- The Sweden Hockey Games are sometimes
referred to as the Sweden Globen Cup.
- Sweden Hockey Games
- Annual tournament played in Stockholm, Sweden at the Globen
Arena since 1991. The winners receive the Globen Cup. Contested in 1997 by Canada, the
Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden.
- Swedish Championship
-
- Founded in 1922. There has been an organized Swedish League
and a Swedish Championship from the outset. The Anton Cup was awarded to the winners of
the Championship between the 1921-22 and 1951-52 seasons.
i. Until the 1951-52 season the championship was an "open" event
with no qualification rounds, teams that had some sort of ice hockey association, from all
over Sweden, were able to enter.
ii. From the 1952-53 season only the teams who competed in Swedish League Division 1 North or Swedish League Division 1
South were able to become Swedish Champions because the winners of the two pools met in
the final of the Swedish Championship.
iii. From the 1955-56 season the top two clubs in each pool enter a
champions league to decide the Swedish Champions.
iv. From the 1961-62 the top four clubs enter the
champions league.
v. From the 1965-66 season there was a play-off
between the top four clubs from each pool.
vi. From the 1967-68 season it reverted back to the previous model of a
champions league.
vii. From the 1974-75 season the top four clubs of the consolidated Division
1 league contested a play-off.
viii. From the 1975-76 season the top four teams of the Elite League contest
a play-off.
ix. Since the 1987-88 season the top eight teams of the Elite League enter
the play-offs.
- Swedish Elite League [web
site]
- Known as the Eliteserien,
this is the top league in Sweden.
- Swedish Ice Hockey Association (Svenska
Ishockeyf�rbundet) [web site] [e-mail]
- Johanneshov, Sweden. Between 1920 and 1922 ice hockey was administered in Sweden by the
Swedish Football Association. The Swedish Ice Hockey Association was found in 1922.
In the 1996-97 season, 716 clubs were registered, 58,779 players were licensed and
there were 275 indoor arenas in Sweden.
i. Presidents :
1922-24 Isaac Westergren
1924-48 Anton Johanson
- 1948-73 Helge Berglund
1973-78 Ove Rainer
- 1978-83 Arne Grunander
1983- Rickard Fagerlund
- Swedish Ice Hockey History
- In the autumn of 1919 Raoul Le Mat, a movie director
from the USA, and his friends, Thomas Cahill and
Ernest Viberg visited Sweden. One evening these men met
Anton Johanson, chairman of the Swedish Football
Association and a member of the Swedish Olympic Committe, at the Strand Hotell in
Stockholm. Viberg, a Swedish-American, explained how he had played ice hockey at Columbia
University and how fast this popular sport was growing in North America. Cahill, an
American football chief suggested that Viberg should try to put a team together and
attempt to introduce ice hockey in Sweden. At that time bandy
was the big winter sport in Sweden and they attracted several bandy players who were
interested in learning about the new sport. Le Mat later suggested to Johanson that Sweden
should send a team to the 1920 Winter Olympic Games in
Antwerp. Eleven players with Le Mat as coach and Viberg as trainer went to Belgium.
On the 23th of April 1920 Sweden made its first
appearance in an International Tournament and defeated Belgium 8-0. They finished in
fourth place after the round robin event which saw them also beat both France and Switzerland
4-0, suffer a narrow 1-0 defeat at the hands of Czechoslovakia
and find both Canada (12-1) and the USA (7-0) too strong for them at that time. Now ice hockey has
established itself as the most popular sport in Sweden and by the 1996-97 season 121
Swedes had played in the NHL (including those who played in the
WHA). Another 496 Swedes have worked as professionals in different
American or European leagues.
- Swedish Ice Hockey Players Association (SICO) [web site]
- Founded in 1977. SICO (Sveriges Ishockey-spelares Centralorganisation) is a union
for the Swedish ice hockey players and players from other countries who join the
association. It represents players in negotiations with team organizations and the Swedish
Ice Hockey Association. It also negotiates with the Swedish Ice Hockey Association about
wages and fees for the team Sweden players. SICO is
linked with HTF, a large Swedish trade union, which means that SICO has legal help in
conflicts between players and teams. SICO is also a member of the International Ice Hockey
Players Association.
- Swedish Icehockey Historical and Statistical Society
(SIHSS)
[web site
English]
- Stockholm, Sweden. Founded 1994. The society is connected to the Society for
International Hockey Research (SIHR).
The major goal for the society is research of the origin ice hockey in Europe 1895-1945.
Interested researchers from all countries are welcome to write for exchange of
findings and discussion of further co-operation.
Carl Gid�n - president national section
- Email : [email protected]
- Ove Karlsson - president olympic section
Email : [email protected]
Birger Nordmark - president international section
- Email : [email protected]
- Janne Stark - president publishing section
Email : [email protected]
- Swedish League
- Founded in 1922. There have been organized leagues and a Swedish
Championship from the outset. The first leagues where based in the Stockholm area and
only teams from that area competed. The top league has had a number of different names.
i. In the 1941-42 season the top league was called Division 1 and under this
there were three second divisions called Division 2 North, Division 2 Central and Division
2 South. Clubs from outside the Stockholm-area were involved for the first time.
ii. In the 1944-45 season Division 1 was split into two pools, Division 1
North and Division 1 South with eight teams in each pool. There were now six second
division groups. Teams from G�vle in the north of Sweden to Norrk�ping in the south were
now competing in the leagues.
iii. In the 1974-75 season the two pools became one league with sixteen
teams known simply as Division 1.
iv. In the 1975-76 season the top ten teams from Division 1 form the Elite
League. There were four eight team second level groups called Division 1 North, Division 1
East, Division 1 West and Division 1 South.
v. Since the 1987-88 season twelve teams compete in
the Swedish Elite League.
- Sweeney, Don (1966- )
- Born in St Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada. Defenceman. Boston
Bruins 8th pick (166th overall) in the 1984 NHL
Entry Draft.
International Career : Played for Canada in
the 1997 World Championships.
Club Career : Played for Boston
Bruins & Maine Mariners 1988-90,
Boston Bruins 1990-03 and Dallas
Stars 2003- .
Medals : Won World
Championship gold in 1997.
- Sweet Stick™ [web
site]
- Hastings, Nebraska, USA. The Sweet Stick is the trade name of a ceramic edged, hand held skate sharpening tool
that restores the bite angel of a blade.
- Swick, Julius (1927- )
- Born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Centre. He finished 5th in the
IHL top scorers table 1951-52 and 3rd in the 1952-53 season. When he
retired from playing he went on to referee in the Western Canada Hockey League
for 22 years.
Club Career : Played for Boston
Olympics 1949-50, Troy Bruins 1950-54 and
Indianapolis Chiefs 1955-56.
Honours : IHL All-Star First Team 1951-52.
IHL All-Star Second Team 1952-53.
Elected to the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame (builder) in 2001.
- Swift Current Broncos
-
Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. Played in the Western
Hockey League.
Home ice : Centennial Civic Centre
Team colours :
All-time best players : Joe Sakic, Sergei Varlamov
- Swindon Chill
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Formed by ex-goaltender Mike
Kellond in 1997 to play in the English
National League as Oxford Chill. When Oxford's ice
rink developed a fault the team moved their opening league game on 7 September 1997 to
Swindon's Link Centre and never returned to Oxford. The team moved to Swindon permanently
on 29 September and renamed themselves the Swindon Chill. Played in the English National
League 1997-98 and the English League Premier Division 1998-00.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours : white, red, black & grey
- Swindon Icelords
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1986, named changed from Swindon Wildcats in 1996. Played in the British Premier
League 1996-97. Swindon Icelords shut up shop after winning the British Premier League in
1996-97 and a new group headed by Bob Thomas took over. The team were renamed the Swindon Steamers.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours : white, cobalt blue, black
& red
- Swindon Leopards
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Under 16 team playing in the English Junior
Championships.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours :
- Swindon Lynx
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 2001. Formerly known as Swindon
Phoenix. Played in the English Premier League 2000-04. Name changed to Swindon
Wildcats.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours : white, blue, silver & gold
General manager :
Head coach : Bryan Larkin 2000-03, Merv Priest 2003-
Team captain :
- Swindon Phoenix
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Formed in April 2000 by former Swindon Chill shareholder and match night announcer, Phil Jefferies, after the Chill management announced they were selling up and no buyers came forward.
The team is to play in English Premier League in 2000-01. name changed to Swindon
Lynx in 2001.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours : white, red, yellow & orange
- Swindon Pumas
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Under 14 team playing in the English Junior
Championships.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours :
- Swindon Steamers
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Founded by by Bob Thomas in 1997 and named after the local
steam train heritage. However, the team failed to get local businesses to back them and
only weeks after agreeing to enter the British National League in June, Swindon Steamers
folded. Many of the players scheduled to play for Swindon Steamers moved 30 miles up
the road to a new team, Oxford Chill.
- Swindon Top Cats
-
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Played in Women's
Premier League in Great Britain.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours :
- Swindon Wildcats (1986-96)
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1986. Played in the British League Division One
1986-96.
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours : white & red
 - Swindon Wildcats (2004- ) [web
site]
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 2004. Formerly known as Swindon
Lynx. Played in the English Premier League 2004- .
Home ice : Link Centre
Team colours : white, teal & grey
General manager : Steve Nell 2004-
Head coach : Daryl Lipsey 2004-
Team captain : Ken Forshee 2004- - "Swindon
Wildcats 1986-1992"
- A book covering the history of the Swindon Wildcats
until 1992, written
by Richard Chapman and published in Swindon, Wiltshire, England in 1992.
- Swiss Championship
Until 1933 in Switzerland, there were two championships - the International Championship
and the National Championship. Since 1938 there has been just
one Swiss Championship contested by the top league of the day (see Swiss Nationalliga
A & Swiss Hockey League). - Swiss Hockey League
- The name given to the top league in Switzerland from the 1998-99 season.
- Swiss Ice Hockey Federation
(Schweizerischer Eishockeyverband) [web site German]
- Zurich, Switzerland. Governing body for ice hockey in Switzerland. Oversee the Swiss
Nationalliga.
Presidents of Swiss League of Hockey (LSHG)
:
Max Sillig
Bruno Leuzinger 1920-
Dr Raymond Gafner 1949-51
Dr Max Thoma 1951-63
Josef Kuonen 1963-66
Henri Kunz 1966-67
Reto Tratschin 1967-75
Fran�ois Wollner 1975-81
Max Bigler 1981-85
Rene Fasel 1985-94
Josef Brunner 1994-96
Werner Kohler 1996-02
Jean
Martinet 2002-
- Swiss International Championship
- The first Swiss championship was called the Swiss International Championship and was contested
between 1908 and 1937. This championship had no restriction on the
number of foreign players in a team.
- Swiss National Championship
- The Swiss National championship was started in 1916. It was contested until 1933.
This championship had a restriction on the number of foreign players in a
team.
- Swiss Nationalliga A
- The name given to the top league in Switzerland from 1937-38 to 1997-98.
- Switzer, Derek (1970- )
- Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Forward.
Club Career : Played for Medway Bears 1993-96, Braunlager EHC 1996-97, EV F�ssen 1997-98, ERSC Amberg 1998-99, KEV Hannover 1999-01, EHC Memmingen 2001-02, EC Ulm 2002-03 and Heilbronner Falken 2003- .
- Switzerland - Men's National Team
- See Switzerland
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