The former ice hockey player died at his home in Switzerland.
Morgan Samuelsson scored the championship goal for the Lions in the spring of 2001. PDO
The Swiss ice hockey club ZSC Lions announces that a former player of the Swedish national ice hockey team Morgan Samuelsson has died at the age of 55. The man had suffered from health problems for a long time.
– Morgan Samuelsson’s big heart stopped beating, the team said on its website.
Samuelsson spent the last seasons of his hockey career in Switzerland. He also coached in an alpine country and was married to a Swiss hockey journalist. Samuelsson’s family also included a daughter and a son.
At the beginning of his hockey career, Samuelsson was even booked for the NHL, but the center forward stayed in the rinks of Europe. He played a total of 245 matches in the Swedish premier league in Luluaja, Södertälje and AIK and scored 177 points during them. The man’s career also took him to Germany, Austria and, for the last few years, Switzerland.
In the 2000–2001 season, he won the Swiss championship as a Lions teammate Ari Sulander’s with. Samuelsson scored the winning goal in the stoppage time of the final series and became one of the club legends with it.
Samuelsson also made visits to the Swedish national team, but the player was never seen at the World Cup.