Fredrik Modin

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


image_size =
team = Columbus Blue Jackets
former_teams = Toronto Maple Leafs Tampa Bay Lightning
league = NHL
position = Left Winger
shoots = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 4
weight_lb = 223
nationality = SWE
birth_date = Birth date and age|1974|10|8|mf=y
birth_place = Sundsvall, SWE
draft = 64th overall
draft_year = 1994
draft_team = Toronto Maple Leafs
career_start = 1994

Fredrik "Freddie" Modin (born October 8, 1974, in Sundsvall, Medelpad) is a Swedish ice hockey left winger, and alternate captain for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL. He is known for having one of the hardest slap shots in the NHL.

Playing career

Pre-NHL career

Modin played his youth league games for the [http://www.nsk.nu/ Njurunda Sports Club] , like Henrik Zetterberg. [http://www.nsk.nu/ Njurunda Sports Club] has now renamed their arena to Modin&Zetterberg-hallen, after everything Fredrik Modin and Henrik Zetterberg has done for their youth-club.

NHL career

Modin was drafted 64th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning on October 1, 1999, and won the Stanley Cup with the Lightning in 2004. He has played three seasons with Toronto and his last five with Tampa. For the 2004–05 season, Fredrik Modin returned to Sweden to play for Timrå IK because of the NHL lockout. He scored 12 goals, 24 assists and had a total of 36 points. On June 30, 2006, he was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets along with Fredrik Norrena for Marc Denis.

He is a member of the Triple Gold Club having won the 1998 World Championships, the 2004 Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay Lightning and Olympic Gold Medal in 2006.

Awards

* Gold medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1998.
* Played in the NHL All-Star Game in 2001.
* Bronze medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 2001.
* Stanley Cup winner with Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004.
* Gold medal at the Winter Olympics in 2006.

Records

* 2004 World Cup of Hockey record for most points (8)

Career statistics

International play

Played for Sweden in:

* 1994 World Junior Championships (silver medal)
* 1996 World Championships
* 1998 World Championships (gold medal)
* 2000 World Championships
* 2001 World Championships (bronze medal)
* 2004 World Cup of Hockey
* 2006 Winter Olympics (gold medal)

International statistics

"Statistics as of July 8, 2006"

External links

*hockeydb|14082