Ice hockey team in Mora
Mora IK
(or
Mora Ishockeyklubb
) is a
Swedish
professional
ice hockey
club from
Mora
in northern
Dalarna
. After failing the
2019 SHL qualifiers
, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league,
HockeyAllsvenskan
. Mora has previously played 25 seasons in the top tier, including four seasons in
Elitserien
(as the SHL was called at the time). The team has reached the finals of the Swedish Championships only once, in
1950
, a match which they lost 7?2 to
Djurgardens IF
. Mora has played in the top two tiers of Swedish hockey since the 1944?45 season.
History
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Mora IK was founded in
1935
. In 1945, the club reached the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden for the first time, and participated in their first (and to date only) Swedish Championship final in 1950. Mora
yo-yoed
in and out of the top league,
Division 1
, until 1966, when they managed to maintain a spot in Division 1 for nine consecutive seasons, which remains Mora's longest run in Sweden's top hockey league. In 1975,
Elitserien
was founded as a new top-tier hockey league, and Mora failed to qualify for this new league. They would continue play in
Division 1
in its new function as Sweden's second-tier league, for 29 years, until 2004 when they managed promotion to Elitserien for the first time.
The club took advantage of the
2004?05 NHL lockout
to sign several NHL players, including
Shawn Horcoff
,
Daniel Cleary
and brothers
Marian Hossa
and
Marcel Hossa
. They finished 9th that season, a respectable position for a newly promoted team. Mora finished 8th in both the
2005?06
and 2006?06 seasons, and accordingly participated in the Swedish Championship playoffs for the first time since 1970, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals each time. The
2007?08 Elitserien season
resulted with Mora in 11th place, forcing them to play in the
2008 Elitserien qualifier
(
Kvalserien
) to retain their spot in Elitserien. They finished 4th in that tournament, resulting in relegation back to
HockeyAllsvenskan
.
During the
2012?13 NHL lockout
,
Bobby Ryan
of the
Anaheim Ducks
and
Anze Kopitar
of the Stanley Cup-winning
Los Angeles Kings
joined the team to play with his brother, Ga?per, for the duration of the lockout. This period in the second tier came to an end after nine years when Mora defeated local rivals
Leksands IF
4?2 in games in the
2017 SHL qualifiers
, taking their spot in the top flight.
[1]
Their rivalries are commonly referred to as
Siljansderbyt
(English:
the
Siljan
derby
). The team would once again face Leksand in the
2019 SHL qualifiers
, after finishing 13th in
the regular season
, where they lost 4?1 in games to Leksand and thus were relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan while Leksand took their SHL spot for the next season.
Seasons-by-season records
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'This is a partial list, featuring the five most recent completed seasons. For the full season-by-season history, see
List of Mora IK seasons
Year
|
Level
|
League
|
Record
|
Avg.
home
atnd.
|
Notes
|
Ref.
|
Position
|
W?OTW-OTL?L
|
2014?15
|
Tier 2
|
HockeyAllsvenskan
|
7th
|
22?3?7?20
|
2,710
|
|
[2]
|
HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs
|
5th
|
1?0?3?1
|
2,540
|
|
[3]
|
2015?16
|
Tier 2
|
HockeyAllsvenskan
|
6th
|
20?6?6?20
|
2,924
|
|
[4]
|
HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs
|
2nd
|
3?1?0?1
|
3,018
|
|
[5]
|
2016?17
|
Tier 2
|
HockeyAllsvenskan
|
1st
|
31?4?4?13
|
3,062
|
|
[6]
|
HockeyAllsvenskan finals
|
?
|
3?0?0?0
|
4,050
|
Won 3?0 in games vs
BIK Karlskoga
|
[7]
|
SHL qualifiers
|
?
|
4?0?0?2
|
4,500
|
Won 4?2 in games vs
Leksands IF
Promoted to the
SHL
|
[8]
|
2017?18
|
Tier 1
|
SHL
|
13th
|
13?5?2?32
|
4,118
|
|
[9]
|
SHL qualifiers
|
?
|
4?0?0?1
|
4,500
|
Won 4?1 in games vs
Leksands IF
|
[10]
|
2018?19
|
Tier 1
|
SHL
|
13th
|
13?9?3?27
|
4,070
|
|
[11]
|
SHL qualifiers
|
?
|
1?0?1?3
|
4,500
|
Lost 1?4 in games vs
Leksands IF
Relegated
to
HockeyAllsvenskan
|
[12]
|
Players and personnel
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Current roster
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Updated 9 March, 2023.
[13]
Team captains
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- Magnus Sandberg, 2003?06
- Jarno Kultanen
, 2006?07
- Hakan Bogg, 2007?08
- Greger Artursson
, 2009?10
- Niklas Fogstrom
, 2010?11
- Peter Nolander
, 2011?12
- Tobias Ericsson
, 2012?13
- Jeremy Colliton
, 2013?14
- Johan Alcen
, 2013?14
- Kevin Mitchell
, 2014?15
- Daniel Hermansson
, 2015?16
- Emil Bejmo
, 2016?17
- Tomas Skogs
, 2017?18
- Adam Masuhr
, 2018?20
- Mattias Nørstebø
, 2020?21
- Daniel Ljunggren
, 2021?
present
Honored members
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Mora IK retired numbers
No.
|
Player
|
Position
|
Career
|
No. retirement
|
14
|
Mats Lonn
|
F
|
1956?1974
|
?
|
17
|
Hans Hansson
|
F
|
1967?1984
[14]
|
?
|
21
|
Per Danielsson
|
F
|
1974?1975
|
?
|
24
|
Bengt Akerblom
|
C
|
1990?1995
|
?
|
25
|
Nils-Goran Olsson
|
F
|
1973?1975
|
?
|
78
|
Mikael Simons
|
RW
|
1994?2010
|
?
|
References
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