Lindbergh with the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1980s
Born
(1959-05-24)24 May 1959 Stockholm, Sweden
Died
11 November 1985(1985-11-11) (aged 26) Stratford, New Jersey, U.S.
Height
5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight
158 lb (72 kg; 11 st 4 lb)
Position
Goaltender
Caught
Left
Played for
AIK IF Philadelphia Flyers
National team
Sweden
NHL draft
35th overall, 1979 Philadelphia Flyers
Playing career
1978–1985
Medal record
Representing Sweden
Men's Ice Hockey
Olympic Games
1980 Lake Placid
Ice hockey
World Championships
1979 Soviet Union
Ice hockey
World Junior Championships
1978 Canada
Ice hockey
Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈpɛ̌lːɛˈlɪ̌nːdbærj];[citation needed] 24 May 1959 – 11 November 1985) was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played five seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first European-born goaltender to be drafted in the NHL Entry Draft and the first to achieve success in North America.
Lindbergh died at age 26 in a single-car accident five months after leading the Flyers to the 1985 Stanley Cup Finals and winning the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender.
Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpɛ̌lːɛ ˈlɪ̌nːdbærj];[citation needed] 24 May 1959 – 11 November 1985) was a Swedish professional...
goaltenders to win the Vezina Trophy, Parent in 1973–74 and 1974–75, PelleLindbergh in 1984–85, and Hextall in 1986–87. Twenty people – thirteen players...
Fame. The number 31, last worn by goaltender PelleLindbergh, was removed from circulation after Lindbergh's death on November 11, 1985, but it is not officially...
Finals by dispatching the club four games to one. Flyers goaltender PelleLindbergh registered a pair of shutouts, one in the first game 3-0, and the other...
goalie wore the old-style fiberglass mask. Both Fuhr and the Flyers' PelleLindbergh wore the face-hugging mask, which was introduced in 1959 by Jacques...
assists for a career high 38 points. As such, Farabee was awarded the PelleLindbergh Memorial Trophy, given to the most improved Flyer as voted by his teammates...
Philadelphia team, backstopped by Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender PelleLindbergh, finished the 1984–85 season with most points and earned a berth in...
Peeters Boston Bruins 1 1983–84 Tom Barrasso Buffalo Sabres 1 1984–85 PelleLindbergh Philadelphia Flyers 1 1985–86 John Vanbiesbrouck New York Rangers 1...
Eriksson Jan Eriksson Thomas Eriksson Leif Holmgren Tomas Jonsson PelleLindbergh William Löfqvist Harald Lückner Bengt Lundholm Per Lundqvist Lars Molin...
former NHLer Viacheslav Fetisov, was the driver in the crash. 26 PelleLindbergh Sweden November 11, 1985 car crash Philadelphia Flyers goalie played...
uncle of current Ottawa Senators defenceman Jakob Chychrun. 1999–2000: PelleLindbergh Memorial Trophy (Philadelphia Flyers) Captain (ice hockey) List of...
Award Year Stanley Cup champion 1993 PelleLindbergh Memorial Trophy 1995 NHL first All-Star team 1995, 1998 NHL second All-Star team 1996, 1997, 1999...
game. The team rewarded his efforts by gifting him the team's 2020 PelleLindbergh Memorial Trophy as the team's most improved player. When the NHL returned...
Eriksson Jan Eriksson Thomas Eriksson Leif Holmgren Tomas Jonsson PelleLindbergh Bengt Lundholm William Löfqvist Harald Lückner Per Lundqvist Lars Molin...
season, Couturier received three Flyers organizational awards: the PelleLindbergh Memorial Trophy for most improved player, the Yanick Dupre Class Guy...
Louis Blues in 1984 after being sold by the Flyers, who had settled on PelleLindbergh in goal. Larocque retired from hockey in 1985 after playing 13 games...
newsobserver. Retrieved 9 April 2019. Seravalli, Frank (November 11, 2010). "PelleLindbergh's spirit lives on, 25 years after fatal crash". Philadelphia Daily News...
mentoring future Vezina-winning goalies Ron Hextall and the late PelleLindbergh, the latter of whom idolized Parent as a youngster in his native Sweden...
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