| Mora IK | |
|---|---|
 | |
| City | Mora |
| League | HockeyAllsvenskan |
| Founded | 1935 (1935) |
| Home arena | Smidjegrav Arena |
| Colours | |
| General manager | Peter Hermodsson |
| Head coach | Johan Hedberg |
| Captain | Daniel Ljunggren |
| Website | moraik.se |
Mora IK (orMora Ishockeyklubb) is aSwedish professionalice hockey club fromMora in northernDalarna. After failing the2019 SHL qualifiers, Mora has been relegated for play in the second-tier league,HockeyAllsvenskan. Mora has previously played 25 seasons in the top tier, including four seasons inElitserien (as the SHL was called at the time). The team has reached the finals of the Swedish Championships only once, in1950, a match which they lost 7–2 toDjurgårdens IF. Mora has played in the top two tiers of Swedish hockey since the 1944–45 season.
Mora IK was founded in1935. In 1945, the club reached the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden for the first time, and participated in their first (and to date only) Swedish Championship final in 1950. Morayo-yoed in and out of the top league,Division 1, until 1966, when they managed to maintain a spot in Division 1 for nine consecutive seasons, which remains Mora's longest run in Sweden's top hockey league. In 1975,Elitserien was founded as a new top-tier hockey league, and Mora failed to qualify for this new league. They would continue play inDivision 1 in its new function as Sweden's second-tier league, for 29 years, until 2004 when they managed promotion to Elitserien for the first time.
The club took advantage of the2004–05 NHL lockout to sign several NHL players, includingShawn Horcoff,Daniel Cleary and brothersMarian Hossa andMarcel Hossa. They finished 9th that season, a respectable position for a newly promoted team. Mora finished 8th in both the2005–06 and 2006–06 seasons, and accordingly participated in the Swedish Championship playoffs for the first time since 1970, but were eliminated in the quarterfinals each time. The2007–08 Elitserien season resulted with Mora in 11th place, forcing them to play in the2008 Elitserien qualifier (Kvalserien) to retain their spot in Elitserien. They finished 4th in that tournament, resulting in relegation back toHockeyAllsvenskan.
During the2012–13 NHL lockout,Bobby Ryan of theAnaheim Ducks andAnze Kopitar of the Stanley Cup-winningLos Angeles Kings joined the team to play with his brother, Gašper, for the duration of the lockout. This period in the second tier came to an end after nine years when Mora defeated local rivalsLeksands IF 4–2 in games in the2017 SHL qualifiers, taking their spot in the top flight.[1] Their rivalries are commonly referred to asSiljansderbyt (English:theSiljan derby). The team would once again face Leksand in the2019 SHL qualifiers, after finishing 13th inthe regular season, where they lost 4–1 in games to Leksand and thus were relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan while Leksand took their SHL spot for the next season.
'This is a partial list, featuring the five most recent completed seasons. For the full season-by-season history, seeList of Mora IK seasons
| Year | Level | League | Record | Avg. home atnd. | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | W–OTW-OTL–L | ||||||
| 2014–15 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 7th | 22–3–7–20 | 2,710 | [2] | |
| HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs | 5th | 1–0–3–1 | 2,540 | [3] | |||
| 2015–16 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 6th | 20–6–6–20 | 2,924 | [4] | |
| HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs | 2nd | 3–1–0–1 | 3,018 | [5] | |||
| 2016–17 | Tier 2 | HockeyAllsvenskan | 1st | 31–4–4–13 | 3,062 | [6] | |
| HockeyAllsvenskan finals | — | 3–0–0–0 | 4,050 | Won 3–0 in games vsBIK Karlskoga | [7] | ||
| SHL qualifiers | — | 4–0–0–2 | 4,500 | Won 4–2 in games vsLeksands IF Promoted to theSHL | [8] | ||
| 2017–18 | Tier 1 | SHL | 13th | 13–5–2–32 | 4,118 | [9] | |
| SHL qualifiers | — | 4–0–0–1 | 4,500 | Won 4–1 in games vsLeksands IF | [10] | ||
| 2018–19 | Tier 1 | SHL | 13th | 13–9–3–27 | 4,070 | [11] | |
| SHL qualifiers | — | 1–0–1–3 | 4,500 | Lost 1–4 in games vsLeksands IF Relegated toHockeyAllsvenskan | [12] | ||
Updated 9 March, 2023.[13]
| No. | Player | Position | Career | No. retirement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Mats Lönn | F | 1956–1974 | – |
| 17 | Hans Hansson | F | 1967–1984[14] | – |
| 21 | Per Danielsson | F | 1974–1975 | – |
| 24 | Bengt Åkerblom | C | 1990–1995 | – |
| 25 | Nils-Göran Olsson | F | 1973–1975 | – |
| 78 | Mikael Simons | RW | 1994–2010 | – |
