HOCKEY PLAYER

Mats Näslund

1959 - Today

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Mats Torsten Näslund (born 31 October 1959), nicknamed "Le Petit Viking", is a Swedish former ice hockey player. He played as a left winger. Despite his small size at only five feet and seven inches, Näslund is best known for being one of the top forwards with the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens from 1982 to 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mats Näslund has received more than 163,481 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mats Näslund is the 46th most popular hockey player (down from 45th in 2019), the 1,053rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 904th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Hockey Player.

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  • 160k

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  • 51.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Mats Näslund ranks 46 out of 676. Before him are Yevgeni Babich, Pavel Bure, Otakar Vindyš, Josef Černý, Marcel Dionne, and Roy Henkel. After him are Sergei Fedorov, Peter Forsberg, Howie Morenz, Valentin Loos, Dick Esser, and Nils Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Mats Näslund ranks 384. Before him are Lene Hau, Noureddine Bedoui, Ajay Banga, Gregg Araki, Chris Hadfield, and Ryuta Kawashima. After him are Andrzej Buncol, Glenn Morshower, Fredric Lehne, Zoé Valdés, Nikos Dendias, and Juan Barbas.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Mats Näslund ranks 1,053 out of 1,879. Before him are Kajsa Bergqvist (1976), Helge Liljebjörn (1904), Bengt Edlén (1906), Mats Magnusson (1963), Carl Forssell (1917), and Carl von Essen (1940). After him are Sture Allén (1928), Erik Algot Fredriksson (1885), Gustaf Lindblom (1891), Ann-Sofi Pettersson (1932), Peter Forsberg (1973), and Anita Gradin (1933).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Sweden

Among hockey players born in Sweden, Mats Näslund ranks 1. After him are Peter Forsberg (1973), Nils Nilsson (1936), Håkan Loob (1960), Tomas Jonsson (1960), Ronald Pettersson (1935), Kent Nilsson (1956), Nicklas Lidström (1970), Mats Sundin (1971), Bengt-Åke Gustafsson (1958), Lars-Eric Lundvall (1934), and Tommy Salo (1971).

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