About Bengt-Åke Gustafsson
Bengt-Åke Gustafsson (born 23 March 1958) is a Swedish professional ice hockey coach and former ice hockey player. Gustafsson is the former head coach of the Sweden senior team, a post he held from February 2005 to May 2010. His North American career, which lasted from 1979 to 1989, included two games in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Edmonton Oilers, and then nine seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Washington Capitals. He was often called Bengt Gustafsson or Gus. The Capitals selected Gustafsson's son, Anton Gustafsson, with the 21st overall pick in the 2008 NHL entry draft. In 2003, Gustafsson was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame as a player. On 6 May 2011, Gustafsson was named the head coach of Atlant Moscow Oblast of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), becoming the first Swede to be named the head coach of a KHL team. In both 1987 and 1991, he won the gold medal, got silver in 1981, and bronze in 1979.
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