(Mike wrote)
I am looking for information on the National Hockey League-Sweden
Dagens Nyheter Cups that were played in 1981 and 1982. How many teams
were there? What were the scores? When were they played (dates)? Are
there any sites out there that anyone knows about?
Thanks in advance for your help.


---> Hi Mike,

It was played between September 21-26,1980 in Stockholm,Sweden
Dagens Nyheter is the largest daily newspaper in Sweden. (They sponsored it).
I believe the winner won something like 100,000 Swedish crowns
(about $ 20,000 US at that time)
I was at the Min-Wsh game myself.
I have all the dates for the games but not in front of me right now.
AIK and Djurgården are clubs from Stockholm.

I hope this helps.

DN Hockey Cup 1980

AIK-Djurgården 1-0
Minnesota-Washington 3-4
Djurgården-Minnesota 0-8
AIK-Washington 1-2
AIK-Minnesota 2-5
Djurgården-Washington 2-3

Top Scorers GP G A Pts Pim

Jean Pronovost (Wsh) 3 4 0 4 0
Tom McCarthy (Min) 3 3 1 4 2
Dennis Maruk (Wsh) 3 1 2 3 4
Tim Young (Min) 3 1 2 3 6
Steve Christoff (Min) 2 2 0 2 0
Bill Nyrop (Min) 3 2 0 2 0
Mike Polich (Min) 3 2 0 2 0
Glenn Sharpley (Min) 3 2 0 2 0


The 1981 tournament was played September 17-23
in Södertalje,Göteborg and Stockholm,Sweden

Djurgården-NY Rangers 1-5
Västra Frölunda-Washington 7-4
AIK-Washington 6-1
Västra Frölunda-Djurgarden 5-4
NY Rangers-Washington 4-1
Djurgården-AIK 4-2
Västra Frölunda-AIK 0-5
Västra Frölunda-NY Rangers 1-7
Djurgården-Washington 2-5
AIK-NY Rangers 1-4

Top scorers

Ed Johnstone (NYR) 4 6 1 7
Reijo Ruotsalainen (NYR) 4 1 6 7
Mike Allison (NYR) 4 3 2 5
Mats Ulander (AIK) 4 3 2 5
Bob Carpenter (Wsh) 4 4 0 4

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Before the 1981 tournament started NY Rangers played
one game in Finland.

September 16

IFK Helsinki-NY Rangers
4-1 (0-1,4-0,0-0)

Period 1

0-1 16 min Mike Allison

Period 2

1-1 3 min Harri Tuohimaa
2-1 4 min Matti Murto
3-1 Harri Tuohimaa
4-1 Matti Forss



DN Hockey Cup 1981

September 17

NY Rangers-Djurgården
5-1 (1-1,0-0,4-0)

Period 1

0-1 3:14 Tommy Mörth (Mats Waltin)
1-1 15:33 Dave Maloney (four against four)

Shots: 10-9

Period 2

Shots: 6-4

Period 3

2-1 0:29 Ed Johnstone (Dave Maloney) (SH)
3-1 5:59
4-1 11:02 Ed Johnstone (Carol Vadnais)
5-1 12:29 Mike Allison (Reijo Ruotsalainen)

Shots: 9-7

Total: 25-20

Attendance: 6,652
Referee: Antti Koskinen,Finland



September 17

Washington-Västra Frölunda
4-7 (0-1,3-3,1-3)

Period 1

0-1 10:23 Hans Sjöö (Emil Mezaros,Jan Karlsson)

Shots: 15-9

Period 2

0-2 5:25 Ove Karlsson (Wally Olds)
1-2 7:35 Jim McTaggart (Roland Stoltz)
1-3 10:59 Roger Åhsberg (Ove Karlsson,Ulf Labraaten) (PP)
2-3 12:47 Bobby Carpenter
3-3 13:31 Dennis Maruk
3-4 14:13 Emil Mezaros (Tommy Persson) - Delayed penalty

Shots: 10-10

Period 3

3-5 7:47 Emil Mezaros (Lars-Erik Esbjörs)
3-6 8:42 Lars-Erik Esbjörs (Tommy Persson,Hans Sjöö)
4-6 9:44 Bobby Carpenter
4-7 15:20 Kent Eriksson (Mats Lind)

Shots: 9-12

Total: 34-31

Attendance: 1,392
Referee: Pertti Juhola,Finland


September 18

Washington-AIK
1-6 (0-3,1-0,0-3)

Period 1

0-1 2:02 Lars-Erik Ericsson (Hans Cederholm)
0-2 5:01 Mats Ulander (Hans Cederholm,Kai Nurmi)
0-3 15:48 Mats Thelin (Rolf Edberg) (PP) - two man advantage

Period 2

1-3 9:05 Dennis Maruk (PP)

Period 3

1-4 6:19 Torbjörn Mattsson (Leif Holmgren,Anders Wallin) (PP)
1-5 14:03 Mats Ulander (Ulf Rådbjer)
1-6 18:43 Ulf Rådbjer (Mats Ulander)

Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Antti Koskinen,Finland



September 20

NY Rangers-Washington
4-1 (2-0,1-1,1-0)

Period 1

1-0 17:23 Mike Allison (Carol Vadnais)
2-0 19:08 Nick Fotiu (Reijo Ruotsalainen,Lance Nethery)

Shots: 9-10

Period 2

2-1 3:40 Bobby Carpenter (Mike Gartner,Ryan Walter)
3-1 8:27 Bobby Hull (Mikko Leinonen)

Shots: 9-9

Period 3

4-1 10:38 Ed Johnstone (Mike Allison,Don Maloney)

Shots: 13-7

Total: 31-26

Attendance: 5,658
Referee: Antti Koskinen,Finland



September 22


Washington-Djurgården
5-2 (1-1,2-1,2-0)

Period 1

1-0 3:52 Bobby Carpenter (Dennis Maruk)
1-1 14:36 Martin Linse

Shots: 12-11

Period 2

1-2 1:43 Tommy Mörth (Michael Thelvén)
2-2 8:52 Ryan Walter (Mike Gartner)
3-2 10:27 Bengt-Åke Gustavsson (Roland Stoltz)

Shots: 10-6

Period 3

4-2 0:16 Bengt-Åke Gustavsson (Rick Green)
5-2 14:13 Bob Kelly (Dennis Maruk)

Shots: 9-10

Total: 31-26

Attendance: 2,734
Referee: Pertti Juhola,Finland



September 22


NY Rangers-Västra Frölunda
7-1 (2-0,5-0,0-1)

Period 1

1-0 7:07 Mikko Leinonen (Anders Hedberg)
2-0 7:32 Ed Johnstone (Don Maloney)

Shots: 14-3

Period 2

3-0 1:42 Ed Johnstone (Mike Allison,Reijo Ruotsalainen)
4-0 3:53 Mikko Leinonen (Tom Laidlaw)
5-0 8:41 Reijo Ruotsalainen (Anders Hedberg,Bobby Hull)
6-0 10:04 Mike Allison (Reijo Ruotsalainen,Ed Johnstone)
7-0 14:10 Ed Johnstone (Reijo Ruotsalainen)

Shots: 14-9

Period 3

7-1 13:25 Emil Mezaros (Jan Karlsson) (PP) - two man advantage

Shots: 14-9

Total: 46-21

Attendance: 3,087
Referee: Antti Koskinen,Finland



September 23


NY Rangers-AIK
4-1 (0-0,1-0,3-1)

Period 1

Shots: 16-7

Period 2

1-0 12:49 Ron Greschner (Jere Gillis)

Shots: 11-4

Period 3

2-0 7:34 Steve Vickers (Tom Laidlaw)
3-0 11:09 Dean Talafous (Dave Silk)
4-0 14:47 Dean Talafous (Dave Silk)
4-1 17:37 Rolf Edberg (Peter Gradin)

Shots: 14-9

Total: 41-20

Attendance: 9,167 (sold out)
Referee: Pertti Juhola,Finland

Pat