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Modo Hockey ( or MODO with uppercase letters ) is a professional ice hockey club in Örnsköldsvik , ___MASK16___ . In season 2016 - 17 the club will be playing in ___MASK16___ ' s second - tier league HockeyAllsvenskan after losing a 7 - game playoff series to Leksands IF and being relegated from the Swedish Hockey League ( SHL ; formerly Elitserien ) in April 2016 . The club was founded in 1921 and has won two SHL championships ; in 1979 and 2007 . The team ' s home arena is the Fjällräven Center ( previously known as " Swedbank Arena ") since 2006 . Before then , the team played at Kempehallen , beginning in 1964 . Markus Sten Näslund ( born July 30 , 1973 ) is a Swedish retired ice hockey player and former general manager for Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League ( SHL , formerly named Elitserien ). He played in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Pittsburgh Penguins , Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers , as well as in the Elitserien with Modo Hockey . Nicknamed " Nazzy " by Canucks fans and " Macke " or " Mackan " in his native ___MASK16___ , he was known for his offensive skills , particularly his wrist shot and stickhandling . The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City . They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden , located in the borough of Manhattan . The Rangers are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan area , along with the New ___MASK57___ Devils and New York Islanders . The club is also one of the oldest teams in the NHL , having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise . They are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six , along with the Boston Bruins , Chicago Blackhawks , Detroit Red Wings , Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs . The Rangers were the first NHL franchise in the ___MASK19___ to win the Stanley Cup , which they have done four times , most recently in 1993  94 . History . Early years . George Lewis " Tex " Rickard , president of Madison Square Garden , was awarded an NHL franchise for the 1926  27 season to compete with the now - defunct New York Americans , who had begun play at the Garden the previous season . The Americans ( also known as the " Amerks ") proved to be an even greater success than expected during their inaugural season , leading Rickard to pursue a second team for the Garden despite promising the Amerks that they would be the only hockey team to play there . The new team was quickly nicknamed " Tex ' s Rangers ". Rickard ' s franchise began play in the 1926  27 season . The first team crest was a horse sketched in blue carrying a cowboy waving a hockey stick aloft , before being changed to the familiar R - A - N - G - E - R - S in diagonal . Rickard managed to get future legendary Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe to assemble the team . However , Smythe had a falling - out with Rickard ' s hockey man , Col . John S . Hammond , and was fired as manager - coach on the eve of the first season  he was paid a then - hefty $ 2 , 500 to leave . Smythe was replaced by Pacific Coast Hockey Association co - founder Lester Patrick . The new team Smythe assembled turned out to be a winner . The Rangers won the American Division title their first year but lost to the Boston Bruins in the playoffs . Icebreakers is an ice hockey team founded in 2002 by ( among others ) Peter Forsberg and Markus Näslund . Their purpose is to raise money for a foundation who give scholarships to handicapped or otherwise needy children . They raise this money not only by playing charity ice hockey games , but also by attending auctions or playing celebrity golf . The team consists of Swedish players in the National Hockey League . The larger part are players who were at one time or another members of the Modo squad . Peter Mattias " Foppa " Forsberg ( born 20 July 1973 ) is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey player and the current assistant general manager of Modo Hockey . Known for his on - ice vision and physical play , Forsberg is considered one of the greatest players of his generation . Although his career was shortened by persistent injuries , as of 2014 , he stands eighth all - time in career points - per - game and fourth all - time in career assists - per - game in the NHL , only behind Wayne Gretzky , Mario Lemieux and Bobby Orr . The National Hockey League ( NHL ) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 31 member clubs . Of the 30 clubs currently playing , 23 are in the ___MASK19___ and 7 in Canada . Headquartered in New York City , the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world , and one of the major professional sports leagues in the ___MASK19___ and Canada . The Stanley Cup , the oldest professional sports trophy in North America , is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season .