Stefan Liv
| Stefan Liv | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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Stefan Liv following HV71 winning the Swedish National Championship in April 2010 | |||
| Born |
21 December 1980 Gdynia, Poland | ||
| Died |
7 September 2011 (aged 30) Yaroslavl, Russia | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Caught | Left | ||
| Played for |
HV71 Sibir Novosibirsk | ||
| National team | Sweden | ||
| NHL draft |
102nd overall, 2000 Detroit Red Wings | ||
| Playing career | 1999–2011 | ||
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv (born Patryk Śliż; 21 December 1980 – 7 September 2011) was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player who played as a goaltender. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in the top-tier league in Sweden. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2000 NHL entry draft and played one season elsewhere in the Red Wings organization, but never played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He then returned to Europe and HV71, where he played three seasons before moving to Russia in 2010.
Liv was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when he died, along with the rest of the team in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. He was a member of several Swedish national teams, including the 2006 Olympic championship team. A street in Jönköping was named "Stefan Livs gata" (English: Stefan Liv's street) in his honour on 2 August 2013.