MODO Hockey
| Modo Hockey | |
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| City | Örnsköldsvik, Sweden |
| League | HockeyAllsvenskan |
| Founded | 1921 |
| Home arena | Fjällräven Center |
| Colors | Red, white, green |
| General manager |
 Per Svartvadet
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| Head coach |
Andreas Johansson
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| Captain |
 Byron Ritchie
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| Franchise history | |
| 1921–1963 | Alfredshems IK |
| 1964–86 | Modo AIK |
| 1987–present | Modo Hockey |
| Le Mat Trophy | 1979, 2007 |
Modo Hockey (or MODO with uppercase letters) is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. In season 2016-17 the club will be playing in Sweden's second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan after losing a 7-game playoff series to Leksands IF and being relegated from the Swedish Hockey League (SHL; formerly Elitserien) in April 2016. The club was founded in 1921 and has won two SHL championships; in 1979 and 2007. The team's home arena is the Fjällräven Center (previously known as Swedbank Arena) since 2006. Before then, the team played at Kempehallen, beginning in 1964.
The club was founded in 1921 as Alfredshems IK, however it existed without an ice hockey program until 1938. Twenty years later, in 1958, the club joined HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden's highest division at the time. Alfredshems IK played under that moniker until 1963, when it was renamed Modo AIK after their main sponsor, industrial corporation Mo och Domsjö AB (commonly abbreviated MoDo). The following year, the club made the newly constructed Kempehallen their home arena. In 1975, Modo AIK joined the Elitserien as one of the premier league's original ten teams. Four seasons later, Modo AIK won their first regular-season championship in 1979, en route to defeating previous ten-time champion Djurgårdens IF to also capture their first Le Mat trophy as playoff champions.
In 1987, Modo AIK dropped the "AIK" suffix to the club's name, becoming known simply as Modo Hockey. After coming off its championship year in 1979, the club spent the majority of the 1980s with losing records. Coming out of the club's junior program, however, hometown stars Peter Forsberg and Markus Näslund played their rookie seasons with the senior team in 1990–91. Näslund went on to lead Modo Hockey in scoring as an eighteen-year-old in his second season with the club, while Forsberg became the first Modo player to win the Guldpucken as Swedish player of the year since Nils Johansson in 1964, capturing the title back-to-back in 1993 and 1994.
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