- Has got an identical twin, called Joel.
- Recorded his first NHL win on October 13, 2005 at Madison Square Garden vs. the New Jersey Devils in a 4-1 win, and earned First Star honors.
- Posted his first career shut-out in an October 17, 2005 home game vs. Florida, stopping all 23 shots in a 4-0 win.
- Named the NHL's Defensive Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, January 22, 2006; Led the Rangers to three victories and posted a 1.62 goals against average and a 94.5% save percentage over the span.
- His 30th victory made the Rangers the first team in NHL history to have a rookie goaltender total at least 30 victories in the same season that a rookie skater registered at least 30 goals (the rookie skater was Petr Prucha).
- Posted a 4-3 record in shootouts during 2005-2006 season.
- June 25, 2000 - Lundqvist was the Rangers 7th selection, 205th overall, in the 2000 NHL entry draft.
- In the 2005-2006 NHL season, Lundqvist appeared in 53 of 82 games with the Rangers. His record was 30-12-9, with a record of 21-6-4 at Madison Square Garden. His goals against average was 2.24 (1.96 at MSG), and a 92.2% save percentage (93.1% at MSG). Posted two shutouts, both at home.
- Catches: Left.
- Made his NHL debut on October 8, 2005 with the New York Rangers vs. the New Jersey Devils in an away game at The Meadowlands. He stopped 24 of 27 shots in a 3-2 overtime loss.
- On March 12, 2009, he became the first goalie in NHL history to win 30+ games in his first four seasons, with a win over the Nashville Predators.
- In 2009-2010 he recorded his fifth straight 30+ win season, a new NHL goaltending record. He had also held the previous record of four, which he remains the only goalie in NHL history to have accomplished.
- He appeared on People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" list in 2006, and in 2009, Page Six magazine named him the "sexiest man on ice".
- He recorded his 30th win of the 2010-2011 season (over the Montreal Canadiens) on March 18th, 2011, making him the first goalie in NHL history to record 30 or more wins in each of his first 6 NHL seasons.
- Led the NHL in shutouts in 2010-2011 with 11 (a career high).
- First child, a daughter named Charlise, born July 10, 2012.
- Second child, a daughter named Juli, born March 20, 2015.
- Lundqvist used to play guitar in a Swedish rock band called Box Play.
- During the 2005 season, Lundqvist broke four Swedish national records: lowest goals against average (1.05), highest save percentage (.962), longest goalless streak (at 172 minutes and 29 seconds) and most shutouts in a season (6).
- On 13 February 2008, Lundqvist signed a six-year contract extension with the Rangers. This made him the highest-paid goaltender in the NHL on average over the length of his contract.
- Lundqvist debuted for the senior Swedish team on 10 November 2002 in the 2002 Karjala Tournament in Helsinki.
- On 1 October 2008, Lundqvist and the New York Rangers won the Victoria Cup in 2008 when they won 4-3 over Metallurg Magnitogorsk.
- In 2004, Lundqvist was awarded "Best Dressed" in Sweden.
- Lundqvist was named the Rangers Most Valuable Player for the fifth consecutive season (2006-07 to 2010-11), as voted by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. He became the first Rangers player to earn the Rangers MVP award five consecutive times.
- In December 2004, The Hockey News rated Lundqvist the sixth-best European prospect, the lone goaltender in their European top-ten list.
- In 2005, he won two of the most prestigious awards in Swedish ice hockey, the Guldpucken (Golden Puck) and the Guldhjälmen (Golden Helmet).
- Lundqvist led team Sweden with spectacular goaltending to their first ever medal in inline hockey when they won Gold at the 2002 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship.
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