The Forgotten Flames Superstar: The Story of Kent Nilsson

Magicman from Djurgården.
Amazing player 💛❤️💙

Lmao. Those names picked in draft alot didn't make it RIP Kent nielsen

'Kent Nilsson grew up in a small village called' - *linguistic slaughter * . 😆

I used to work with Kent's brother Bosse Nilsson as painters he was supposed to have been an even greater talent as a youth some sort of disorder like diabetes or something ended his carrer though. Nice nostalgia!

BuT It WaS aN eAsY eRa!!!!!!!

One post-career job is not mentioned, coaching me and 15 other nerds in ice hockey in a reality tv show

As a Djurgården fan he was my idol growing up. In a book about the club there’s a chapter on him and if I remember correctly there’s a quote about him that ”he’s equally dangerous at both ends” or something like that. Don’t remember who said it though.
Amazing player with a happy-go-lucky attitude to life and to the sport. He still shows up every now and then at the Djurgården games.

I was privilaged to see Kent play in Winnipeg with the Jets of the WHA. He was Magic even at that young age.

Holy F..K..I have never ever heard anyone butcher the pronunciation of Nynäsham that badly...or any swedish towns name for that matter. Credits to you for that achievement!

My father (of similar age as Kent) grew up in the house next door to his in Ösmo. And he says you always saw Kent, every day, outside on the yard practising his shots. I ran into him several times as a kid, and you always kind of stared at him. And he was always nice and said hello and such.

What's with all the................ weird pauses?

haha nononoo! XD Not Nynash amn! Ny-näs-hamn ... New-isthmus-harbor!
No matter what, damn, Kent Nilsson made ice hockey into an art!

John Ferguson admitted a few years after the infamous WHA 'reclamation draft' that he didn't protect The Magic Man was because he knew Nilsson had a drug problem.

Kent started with the WHA Jets… i was at the game when he scored his first pro goal…

Great video!!!

Nilsson was truly magic. I was happy Oilers picked him up and they took a cup that year

Best season: 49 + 82 Not too shabby

I bumped into Kent Nilsson about a decade ago or more. In Rexall Place in Edmonton. I said "Magic Man can I get an autograph?" He reached into his jacket to get a pen... he didn't have a pen. He apologized and we shook hands. This was during a rookie camp and no one was in the area where I saw him. Was a very cool moment. I'm glad I met him.

career plus minus -25, never had 50 goals, had some good point totals but all during some of the easiest scoring years of the NHL.

When ever I hear his name, I am reminded of the beggar from "Kids"!

This is the guy who inspired Peter Forsbergs famous goal on Corey hirsch ( Shootout in the olympics.

Also known as Mr. Magic

Legend!

Hakan Loob was also a forgot talent.

This is the cat scumbag Hextall slashed ...for a Messier love tap and I'm a goalie with a temper. You missed that one ...

Nothing that coward Ferguson said bad about a player should be taken seriously. Why Fergie? Wouldn't take out the other team's best player??? The good guys lost the 72 Summit series, but the really won

Joey News ...punk. 2003 Cup Finals...first he quit against the Sens..then my beloved DEVILS without him best Ottawa gm 7 and then ILLEGAL PADS JIZZY ..OOPS JIGGY and the clucks ...who is the first out to host the cup with HIS CRIPPLED back??? Joey News, hate him

Great video, so many underrated players from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

He was the scapegoat when the Flames got beat by the Jets in the 85 playoffs. I wonder what the Flames would have been like had they kept him and Brett Hull.

He's deffo not forgotten.

He was in fact one of the most talented players of all time. during the 80s he was right up there with Stastny...Savard. Nobody was in Gretzky's class but Nilsson was in that 2nd tier. I think people felt that maybe he was lacking in that consistant passion and intensity and sometimes you felt he could be even better. He scored 130pts one year and honestly he couldve probably put up 150 if he went max effort every shift

Second best Swede ever after Forsberg.

A Hero from little town with Baltic Sea Nynäshamn!

I actually nutmegged Kent Nilsson during hockey camp in Sweden when I was young...

When he came back to Sweden and played for my beloved Djurgården, and Tre Kronor (the national team), you could see he was so far ahead of everyone else thought wise. Great passes got wasted because team mates didn't read the game as quickly and unorthodox as he did, so he had to adapt his play.

He was something else. When I was young, he became my favorite player after Guy Lafluer.

Great video, I didn´t know that he was forgotten...

Village?! Population of 15k is a village?!?!!?!

The most underrated player of all time its a big shame .He is one of the greatest artist who have enter a hockeyrink.

In Sweden he is regarded as one of the absolute best, up there with Forsberg, Sundin, Lidström, Salming, etc.

GET RID OF THE MUSIC!

Kenta Nilsson 👍🇸🇪

Back in the day they drafted players like it was the slap shot movie.. alot of chewing gum and hear say about who is good, no long term plans at all etc etc... hard to say there was actually steals back then.

It's KENTA, not Kent

What a player . Lazy tho .

"Kenta" gave me my first squirting experience!

Best moves I ever saw. Perreault 2nd