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 in China and the United States. From 2004 to 2017, several men's ice hockey teams based in China played in Asia League Ice Hockey, a professional league made up of teams from Japan, South Korea, and the Russian Far East. In 2015, Andong Song became the first Chinese-national drafted by a National Hockey League (NHL) team, a men's professional league consisting of teams from Canada, and the United States. Song was drafted by the New York Islanders in the 6th round (172nd overall) in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. Ice hockey in China Ice hockey in the People's Republic of China is