LIV or Liv may refer to:

• 54 (number) in Roman numerals
• Liv (given name), a given name
• The Law Institute of Victoria
• The Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben ("Lexicon of the Indo-European Verbs")
• Line-item veto
• Liv (TV channel), a Finnish TV channel
• Liv (Latin American TV channel), a Latin American TV channel
• Liv (album), a 1971 album by Livingston Taylor
• Liv (film), a 1967 Norwegian film by Pål Løkkeberg
• Liverpool Lime Street railway station, England; National Rail station code LIV.
• Wilder's law of initial value in statistics
• An upcoming online channel from Living
• LiV DASH, a lithium-ion battery powered vehicle made by Hybrid Technologies
• Liv Glacier, Antarctic glacier from Barnum Peak and draining north
• Stefan Liv (1980-2011), a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender

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• Liiv

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Stefan Liv
Born	(1980-12-21)21 December 1980 Gdynia, Poland
Died	7 September 2011(2011-09-07) (aged 30) Tunoshna, Yaroslavl, Russia
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	176 lb (80 kg; 12 st 8 lb)
Position	Goaltender
Caught	Left
Played for	HV71 (SEL) Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) Toledo Storm (ECHL) HC Sibir (KHL) Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (KHL)
National team	Sweden
NHL Draft	102nd overall, 2000 Detroit Red Wings
Playing career	1999–2011

Liv playing for HV71, 2010.

Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv (21 December 1980 – 7 September 2011), born Patryk Śliż, was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe. Upon his return, he played three seasons in Sweden, then moved to Russia in 2009. He was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL when he died with the rest of the team in a plane crash. He was a member of several Swedish national teams, including the 2006 Olympic championship team.

Personal[link]

Liv was born in Gdynia, Poland, as Patryk Śliz, given to an orphanage in Gdańsk and adopted by a Swedish family around the age of two. He kept his original first name as a second first name.^[1][2]

Playing career[link]

Liv was the starting goaltender for HC Sibir and was often chosen for the Swedish national team. On 22 December 2005, he was named as third goaltender to Team Sweden for the 2006 Winter Olympics.^[3] He wore the goaltender's glove on his left hand. He was agile, quick in moving from side to side and skilled with close-range shots,^[4] and his unorthodox style reminded some of Dominik Hašek.^[5]

Liv played his first Elitserien game in Sweden on 18 January 2000 in Jönköping for HV71 against Luleå HF. His first national appearance was in a match against the Czech Republic, also in Jönköping, on 9 November 2000. Liv was drafted in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings in the third round, 102nd overall.^[6]

Liv signed a one-year contract with the Red Wings in May 2006,^[5] but started season 2006–07 playing for the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League (AHL).^[7] He was recalled by the Red Wings on 17 November 2006.^[8] On 26 November 2006, Liv was back with the Grand Rapids playing against Houston Aeros. Two days later, Liv was assigned to the Toledo Storm in ECHL when the Grand Rapids recalled goalie Logan Koopmans.^[9] He was later recalled by Grand Rapids.

After one season with the Detroit Red Wings' organization, playing mostly for Grand Rapids, totaling a save percentage of .895 over 34 games, he signed a three-year contract with his former Swedish club HV71.^[10] He continued the 2007–08 season by winning the Swedish Championship and was awarded the Guldpucken as the Player of the Year in the Elitserien. Season 2009-10 Liv played again at HV 71, and he was selected to Swedens Olympic team for Vancouver Olympics 2010, where he was third goalie after New York Rangers Henrik Lundvist and Toronto Maple Leafs Jonas Gustavsson. Season 2010-11 Liv played at Sibir Novosibirsk in KHL, and was selected KHL All-star game 2011. For season 2011-12 Liv moved to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. ^[11]

Death[link]

On 7 September 2011, Liv was killed when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials said "'everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team.'"^[12][13][14]

As a result of Liv's death, the premier round games of the 2011–12 Elitserien season, between 13–15 September, began with a one-minute silence.^[15] In honour, his No. 1 jersey will be retired and raised to the rafters by HV71 in Kinnarps Arena prior to HV71's home game against Timrå IK on 10 January 2012.^[16][17] To remember Liv throughout the 2011–12 season, all player jerseys in HV71's team carry number 1 on the front.^[18] On 10 September 2011, over 10,000 fans of HV71 attended Kinnarps Arena, HV71's home arena, to honor Stefan Liv.^[19]

In their 2011 season opener, each member of the Detroit Red Wings wore a patch bearing "BM*RS*SL" to honor the memories of Liv, Lokomotiv coach Brad McCrimmon, and defenseman Ruslan Salei.^[20] Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard also paid a personal tribute to the three men on the back of his mask.^[21] Liv and Howard had shared goaltending duties during Liv's season with the Grand Rapids Griffins.^[22]

Liv's body was buried at the Sofiakyrkan church in Jönköping on 2 October 2011, with 120 friends and relatives arriving at the scene and leaving one rose flower each on Liv's coffin.^[23][24]

Awards[link]

• Nominated to the Elitserien Rookie of the Year in 2001.
• Named to the Elitserien All-Star Game in 2002.
• Bronze medal at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 2002.
• Awarded the Honken Trophy (Swedish Goaltender of the Year) in 2002.
• Silver medal at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 2004.
• Elitserien playoff winner with HV71 in 2004 and 2008.
• Gold medal at the Winter Olympics in 2006.
• Gold medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 2006.
• Awarded Guldpucken (Swedish Player of the Year) in 2008.
• Named to the Swedish All-Star Team in 2008.
• Elitserien playoff silver medal with HV71 in 2009.
• Bronze medal at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 2009.

Records[link]

• Elitserien record for shutouts in playoffs (5) — (four during the finals)
• Elitserien record for career shutouts (37)
• HV71's club record for total minutes played (13,231)
• HV71's club record for shutouts in a season (6)
• HV71's club record for career GAA (2.17)

Career statistics[link]

Regular season[link]

Statistics as of the end of the Elitserien regular season 2008–09.^[4][25][26]

Post-season[link]

Statistics as of the end of Elitserien playoffs 2009.^[4][25]

International play[link]

Liv has played for Sweden in:

• 2002 World Championships (bronze medal)
• 2004 World Championships (silver medal)
• 2005 World Championships
• 2006 Winter Olympics (gold medal)
• 2006 World Championships (gold medal)
• 2008 World Championships

International statistics[link]

Statistics as of 17 May 2008.^[4][25]

See also[link]

• List of ice hockey players who died during their playing career

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Stefan Liv

• Stefan Liv's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database
• Stefan Liv's career stats at Eliteprospects.com
• Stefan Liv – player profile and career stats at European Hockey.Net