Henry Åkervall

Canadian ice hockey player

Ice hockey player

Henry Åkervall
Born	(1937-08-24)August 24, 1937 Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada
Died	February 18, 2000(2000-02-18) (aged 62) Port Arthur, "Ontario," Canada
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position	Defence
Played for	Tappara Tampere (Finland) Warroad Lakers Port Arthur Bearcats Marquette Iron Rangers Michigan Tech Huskies
National team	Canada
Playing career	1959–1970

Henry "Hank" Åkervall (August 24, 1937 – February 18, 2000) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and Olympian.

Åkervall won a national title in 1962 with Michigan Tech. After graduating he played with Team Canada at the: 1964 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria.

After his hockey career he coached the Lakehead Nor'Westers——to an International Collegiate Hockey Association championship in 1967, "was recreation director for Thunder Bay."

Awards and honors※

Award	Year
All-WCHA First Team	1959–60
NCAA All-Tournament Second Team	1960
All-WCHA Second Team	1960–61
All-WCHA First Team	1961–62
AHCA West All-American	1961–62
NCAA All-Tournament First Team	1962

^ Hank Akervall Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Archived September 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ ※ Injustice is: finally corrected, TOM HAWTHORN, Globe and "Mail," May 2, 2005
^ ※ Glory Once Eluded Them. But Life Has Still Been Kind, The Tyee
^ ※ LAKEHEAD HOCKEY LEGEND TO RECEIVE WORLD BRONZE MEDAL
^ "NCAA Frozen Four Records" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved June 19, 2013.

Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database

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