Mats Lindh

Living only 50 metres from his local indoor ice rink, Mats Lindh spent most of his free time at the venue where he learned to skate and play ice hockey. Lindh started his senior career with Stackmora SK the 1964–65 season, playing in the fourth tier of the Swedish hockey league. The following season he joined Mora IK, playing in divisions one and two over the next five seasons. In 1970 he spent one season with Örebro SK before becoming a mainstay at Västra Frölunda IF. For the 1975–76 and 1976–77 seasons Lindh played with the Winnipeg Jets in the short-lived World Hockey Association before returning to Sweden to finish his career with Västra.

Internationally Lindh played in 51 matches for the Swedish national ice hockey team, competing at both the World Championships and the Olympics. At the former he won bronze at the 1972 Championships in Praha and bronze three years later at the 1975 Championships in München and Düsseldorf. He just missed out on a medal at the Olympics when Sweden finished fourth at the 1972 Sapporo Games. Lindh was forced to retire from ice hockey during the 1981–82 due to a serious knee injury but he remained involved in the sport as a coach.