Nicklas Lidstrom is a Swedish ice hockey defenceman born April 28, 1970, in Krylbo, Sweden, who played twenty NHL seasons, from 1991 to 2012, entirely for the Detroit Red Wings. He won four Stanley Cup championships, in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2008, a record seven James Norris Memorial Trophies as the league's top defenceman, and the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoffs MVP in 2002, and he became the first European-born-and-trained captain of a Stanley Cup-winning team. Nicknamed the Perfect Human, he also won Olympic gold with Sweden in 2006, joining hockey's Triple Gold Club, played 1,564 regular-season games all with Detroit, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Career HighlightNicklas Lidstrom played 20 NHL seasons with the Detroit Red Wings and is regarded as one of the greatest defencemen the sport has produced, winning four Stanley Cup championships and seven James Norris Memorial Trophies as the NHL top defenceman. 2 Classification
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How does Nicklas Lidström's seven Norris Trophies compare with other defencemen?
Seven Norris Trophies, matched only by Doug Harvey and exceeded only by Bobby Orr's eight.
Lidström won the James Norris Memorial Trophy, awarded to the NHL's top defenceman, seven times. Only one other player, Doug Harvey, has matched that total, and only Bobby Orr has exceeded it, with eight wins. Lidström was also nominated for the Norris twelve times in his last fourteen seasons, and in 2001, 2002 and 2003 he won three in a row, the first defenceman to do so since Orr.
How long was Nicklas Lidström's playoff streak with the Detroit Red Wings?
Twenty consecutive playoff seasons, an NHL record shared with Larry Robinson.
Lidström played in the playoffs for 20 consecutive seasons, skipping only the cancelled 2004-05 lockout year, an NHL record that he shares with Larry Robinson. The Detroit Red Wings never missed the playoffs during his 20-year career with the club.
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Erik Nicklas Lidström (pronounced [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈlîːdstrœm]; born 28 April 1970) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman and current vice president of hockey operations for the Detroit Red Wings.
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He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings from 1991 to 2012, where he played in six Stanley Cup Finals, winning four championships, and captained the team for the final six seasons of his career.
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Erik Nicklas Lidström (pronounced [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈlîːdstrœm]; born 28 April 1970) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman and current vice president of hockey operations for the Detroit Red Wings.
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Over his 20 NHL seasons, Lidström won four Stanley Cup championships, seven James Norris Memorial Trophies (awarded to the NHL's top defenceman).
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Erik Nicklas Lidström (pronounced [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈlîːdstrœm]; born 28 April 1970) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman and current vice president of hockey operations for the Detroit Red Wings.
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Lidström was the first European-born-and-trained captain of a Stanley Cup-winning team.
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