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| 1979 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Tomas Jonsson
Selected in
second round
No. 25 overall by New York Islanders
Born April 12, 1960
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Defense
Height: 5-10 Weight: 175
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Ornskoldsvik (Sweden)
Birthplace: Falun, Sweden
Hometown:
Falun, Sweden |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM |
| 1974-75 |
Falun | Sweden |
8 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
0 | | 1975-76 |
Falun | Sweden |
20 | 0 |
4 | 4 |
-- | | 1976-77 |
Falun | Sweden |
19 | 3 |
7 | 10 |
-- | | 1977-78 |
Ornskoldsvik | Sweden |
35 | 8 |
9 | 17 |
45 | | 1978-79 |
Ornskoldsvik | Sweden |
34 | 11 |
9 | 20 |
77 | | |
Team Sweden | |
15 | 2 |
3 | 5 |
16 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Swedish Championship: 1979 (Ornskoldsvik)
World Championships: 1979 (bronze medal)
World Junior Championships: 1978 (silver), 1979
(bronze)
European Junior Championships: 1977 (gold medal)
World Championships All-Star First Team: 1979
Swedish Junior Player of Year: 1977-78
(Ornskoldsvik) |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 7, 1981 (N.Y. Islanders at
Los Angeles)
Numbers: 3 (N.Y. Islanders); 23 (Edmonton)
Stanley Cup:
1982, 1983.
Playing Status: Retired 1998 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP | G |
A | TP | PIM | | 1981-1989 |
N.Y. Islanders, Edmonton | 552 |
85 | 259 | 344 |
482 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP |
G | A |
TP | PIM | | 1982-1989 |
N.Y. Islanders, Edmonton | 80 |
11 | 26 |
37 | 97 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Stanley Cup Finals (Lost): 1984 (N.Y. Islanders)
N.Y. Islanders Saraceno Award (Best Preseason Rookie): 1981
N.Y. Islanders Emery Edge Award (+/- Leader): 1982-83 (plus-40)
Miscellaneous: Missed start of 1983-84 season with broken left foot, an
injury suffered when he blocked a shot during N.Y. Islanders' 1983 training
camp. ... Missed part of 1984-85 season with separated left shoulder, an
injury suffered during N.Y. Islanders' Jan. 13, 1985, game at Chicago. ...
Missed parts of 1985 playoffs with charley horse and bruised ribs. ... Missed
part of 1985-86 season with thigh injury. ... Missed parts of 1987-88 season
with bruised left thigh, suffered in February 1988, and with
concussion, suffered in March 1988. ... Missed part of 1988-89 season with the
flu, contracted in November 1988. ... Missed remainder of 1988-89 regular
season and start of 1989 playoffs with wrenched back, an injury suffered in
April 1988.
Scare in Detroit: Jonsson missed part of
the 1986-87 season
with a broken jaw suffered in a Jan. 22, 1987, car accident in
Detroit. The accident took place at 2:50 a.m., a few hours after the
Islanders lost a road game to the Red Wings. Jonsson and teammate Brian
Curran were returning to their hotel from the Detroit nightclub Taboo.
Unable to find a cab, they accepted a ride from two 17-year-old girls. Jonsson
and Curran did not know the girls were only 17, because they used fake ID
to enter Taboo. Brianna
Rebecca Baker, the driver, and Deirdre Culbertson were taking Jonsson and Curran back to the Westin Hotel when the crash
happened.
Baker ran her Chrysler LeBaron convertible through a red light in Detroit and
was hit by a tractor-trailer driven by 40-year-old Larry Lawhead of Maidstone
Township, Ontario. Baker
was severely injured and went into a coma. Jonsson had multiple jaw fractures,
Curran had cuts on his leg and scalp, and Culbertson also suffered minor
cuts. Jonsson's jaw injury required four hours of surgery on Jan. 22, 1987. He
did not return to action until April 4, 1987. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Ornskoldsvik (Sweden); Team
Sweden; Leksand, Falun (Sweden)
Olympics: 1980 (bronze medal), 1994 (gold
medal)
Canada Cup: 1981
(fifth place), 1987 (third place)
World Championships: 1981 (silver
medal), 1986 (silver medal), 1990 (silver medal), 1991 (gold medal), 1995
(silver medal)
World Jr. Championships: 1980
(bronze), 2000 (fifth) (asst. coach)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
IIHF Hall of Fame:
Inducted 2000
Sweden Golden Puck Award
(Player of Year): 1994-95 (Leksand)
World Championships All-Star First Team: 1980, 1990, 1995
World
Junior Championships All-Star First Team: 1980
Coaching Career: Named Leksand (Sweden) assistant coach prior to 1998-99
season and remained in position through 2000-01 season.
Miscellaneous: Came out of
retirement to play game for hometown Falun (Sweden) team during
1998-99 season. ... Was amateur driver in Swedish harness racing during
off-seasons of his playing days in NHL. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| TRADE: N.Y. Islanders traded Jonsson to
Edmonton in exchange for future considerations (which became a 1989 fifth-round pick -- Kevin
O'Sullivan) on February 15, 1989. |
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SNAPSHOT '79 | | Total Selected: |
126 | | Forwards: |
74 | | Defense: |
41 | | Goaltenders: |
11 | | Major Junior: |
97 | | College Players: |
15 |
| Canadian: |
109 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
1 | | USA Citizens: |
10 | | U.S.-Born: |
10 |
| European: |
6 |
| Reached NHL: |
103 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
23 | | Hall of Fame: |
3 |
| All-Star Game: |
23 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
10 |
| Olympians: |
15 |
| Picks Traded: |
17 |
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