Ronald Pettersson Erik Ronald " Sura - Pelle " Pettersson ( April 16 , 1935 – March 6 , 2010 ) was a Swedish ice hockey player . He played 252 international games for Sweden between 1955 and 1967 , including thirteen World Championships and three Olympic Games . Between 1951 and 1967 Pettersson played for Surahammars IF , Södertälje SK , and Västra Frölunda IF . He won the Swedish championship twice , in 1956 with Södertälje and in 1965 with Västra Frölunda . He won Guldpucken in 1959 – 60 as the most valuable player in Swedish Championship playoffs . After suffering a career ending injury in 1967 Pettersson took on the role as head coach for the Swedish national junior team from 1968 to 1974 , the Swedish national men ' s team from 1974 to 1976 , and the Norwegian national men ' s team from 1978 to 1981 . He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2004 , and his jersey # 14 was retired by Västra Frölunda in 2002 . Early life . Pettersson was born on April 16 , 1935 , in Surahammar , a rural industrial town where the name Ronald was unusual , thus the locals nicknamed him Collman , after the famous actor Ronald Colman . Pettersson was a natural athletic talent , in his youth he played tennis and table tennis with good results , he started playing bandy as a goalkeeper since his skating was of poor quality . As he developed his skating ability he moved to the outfield . His first ice hockey game with the senior team was an exhibition game against Avesta BK during the autumn of 1952 . He was unsuccessful , the first time he received the puck he fell to the ice as he was trying to turn . Playing career . During the 1952 – 53 season Pettersson debuted at age 17 for his hometown team Surahammars IF in Division 1 , then the highest level of ice hockey in Sweden . He played five games , scoring no goals . The following season Pettersson played ten games , scoring nine goals , only one goal shy of his team ' s scoring leader Arne Holmgren . Surahammar were relegated to Division 2 for the 1954 – 55 season , where Pettersson set a new club record when scoring 23 goals in seven games . In 1955 he signed with Södertälje SK because he was going to do conscript service in the Swedish Navy , stationed in Stockholm ' s archipelago . He was in fact supposed to sign with Djurgårdens IF but Södertälje were faster with transfer papers . In 1956 he won the Swedish Championship with Södertälje , scoring one goal in the decisive game against Djurgården which Södertälje won 3 – 1 . International play . Pettersson played for Sweden in all thirteen international championships between 1955 and 1967 , totaling 252 games for Tre Kronor . Pettersson , a right winger , together with centre Nisse Nilsson and left winger Lars Erik Lundvall , formed the legendary " ungdomskedjan " ( youth line ) , one of the most successful and considered as Tre Kronor ' s best line ever . He made his debut for Juniorkronorna in February 1954 , and for Tre Kronor when they played two games against Norway in Stockholm on November 26 and 27 , 1954 . He was selected to Tre Kronor ' s roster for the 1955 World Championship , he scored his first tournament goal , assisted by Sven Tumba , in a 9 – 0 win against Poland in the last game of the championship . Playing style . Pettersson was an incredibly hard working right winger , who played an efficient game and made every minute on the ice count . He was a fast skater , and had a well developed goal scoring ability . He was considered a team player , not a crowd pleaser or a man for newspaper headlines , despite his natural athletic talent . Like a chess player he always thought one step ahead , knewing what do to when he received the puck , he was sly , cunning , coldblooded and could always do unexpected moves . His passing game was of high quality and precision , he was a good shooter but rarely used powerful shots , instead he preferred well placed precision shots which had a remarkable ability to find the net . Legacy . With his 252 games Pettersson is ranked fourth all - time in games played for Tre Kronor . His feat was long considered an unbreakable record , but he was surpassed by Thomas Rundqvist in 1993 and later by Jonas Bergqvist and Jörgen Jönsson . He was inducted to the International Ice Hockey Federation ' s ( IIHF ) Hall of Fame in 2004 . He became the fiftieth ice hockey player to receive Stora Grabbars Märke . His jersey # 14 is retired by Frölunda . In 2003 he was inducted as an honour member in Surahammars IF .