Ole Eskild Dahlstrøm

Ole Eskild Dahlstrøm
Born (1970-03-04) 4 March 1970 (age 54)
Oslo, NOR
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb)
Position Centre
Shot Left
Played for Furuset
Örebro
Storhamar Dragons
Adler Mannheim
Lillehammer
National team  Norway
NHL draft 218th overall, 1990
Minnesota North Stars
Playing career 1986–2007

Ole Eskild Dahlstrøm (born 4 March 1970 in Oslo, Norway) is a former professional Norwegian ice hockey player.

Playing career[edit]

Dahlstrøm broke onto the Norwegian hockey scene 1987/88 playing for Furuset. The following season, still as a junior aged player, he ended up on the IIHF Division 1 All Star team when he helped Norway to promotion for the 1990 IIHF World Championship in Switzerland.

He went to Örebro in the Swedish Division One for the 1988/89 season but came back to his native Furuset after only one season in Sweden. He then played three more seasons for Furuset before signing with Storhamar prior to the 1992/93 season. He scored five goals in his first game[1] for Storhamar against Trondheim. In 527 games with Storhamar he scored 249 goals and 351 assists. Storhamar won five Norwegian Cups in that span. His Storhamar tenure was briefly interrupted when Dahlstrøm went to Adler Mannheim of Germany before the 1997/98 season. He also won the DEL championship that year.

He made the Norwegian All-Star team four times, and played 96 games for Team Norway. In 1996/97 he won the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation's Golden Puck as the best Norwegian player of the year.

He was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in 1990. He was selected in the 11th round (218th overall).

Career statistics[edit]

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1987–88 Furuset Norway 28 42 70
1988–89 Örebro IK Division 1 19 2 9 11 8
1989–90 Furuset Norway 35 25 39 64
1990–91 Furuset Norway
1991–92 Furuset Norway
1992–93 Storhamar Norway 32 24 16 40 12 5 3 0 3 2
1993–94 Storhamar Norway 32 21 26 47 36 8 1 5 6 0
1994–95 Storhamar Norway 25 16 21 37 14 8 8 2 10 8
1995–96 Storhamar Norway 28 14 18 32 32 10 11 11 22 14
1996–97 Storhamar Norway 34 26 53 79 24 10 3 6 9 8
1997–98 Adler Mannheim DEL 43 5 9 14 12 4 1 1 2 2
1998–99 Storhamar Norway 40 20 20 40 51 10 5 5 10 10
1999–00 Storhamar Norway 24 7 15 22 48 7 1 5 6 6
2000–01 Storhamar Norway 39 21 39 60 34 3 0 0 0 8
2001–02 Storhamar Norway 37 17 31 48 20 11 6 5 11 4
2002–03 Storhamar Norway 38 11 27 38 28 8 3 3 6 6
2003–04 Storhamar Norway 35 4 18 22 16 13 4 6 10 2
2004–05 Storhamar Norway 34 8 24 32 36 7 3 2 5 0
2005–06 Lillehammer IK Norway 36 6 13 19 20 3 0 0 0 2
2006–07 Lillehammer IK Norway 27 7 8 15 20
Norway totals 496 255 410 665 391 103 48 50 98 70

Post-retirement[edit]

Dahlstrøm is now head of player development operations within the Storhamar organisation as well as serving as an expert commentator for the Norwegian TV channel TV2.

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