Nils Molander

Nils Molander played the rover position when ice hockey was a 7-man game. Although Swedish, he played his entire career in Germany, starting with Berliner SC in 1911 and staying with them until 1928, when he moved to Königsberg for one final season. Molander skated at the 1920 and 1924 Winter Olympics, won two medals at the European Championships, with gold in 1923 and silver in 1922, and competed at the 1913 and 1914 LIHG Tournament. Molander was a speed skater and raced at the 1914 European Championships in that sport. He married a German woman and settled in Berlin, where he ran a sports shop that sold CCM hockey equipment. Molander was inducted into the Swedish Hockey Hall of Fame.