Mathias Johansson (ice hockey) Mathias Johansson (ice hockey) Mathias Evert Johansson (born February 22, 1974 in Oskarshamn, Sweden) is a former Swedish ice hockey forward. Johansson represented Sweden in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States. He has also represented Sweden in the Ice Hockey World Championship three times (2001, 2002 and 2003). He has played one season (2002/03) in the NHL, during which he played 46 games with the Calgary Flames and 12 games the Pittsburgh Penguins. During the rest of his career he has played with the Swedish team Färjestads BK but in April 2008 he was forced to
Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics than Canada. In 2008 Finland duplicated the feat in the qualifying round, but 2006 is the only time someone else supplanted Canada or the USA in an Olympic or world championship tournament. The top four teams from the International Ice Hockey Federation world rankings following the 2004 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships qualified automatically. These teams were Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden. Italy also gained a place as it was the host nation. Russia, Germany, and Switzerland qualified for the last three places through qualification tournaments. Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics Ice hockey at the 2006