Career
Steen was drafted in the 1998 National Hockey League Entry Draft in the 5th round as the 142nd pick overall by the Detroit Red Wings. At that time he played for Hammarby IF in the second highest league in Sweden, Allsvenskan. But only playing five games in the 1998/99 season Steen moved leaguerival Mora IK in the summer of 1999.
He stayed only one season with Mora and then moved to the Finnish Master of Science-Liiga club JyP Jyvaskyla.
But he did not stay there for long a time, after only five games he moved back to Sweden and Bofors IK of Allsvenskan. And finally he got some success.
Then Bofors traded him to Färjestads BK of the Elitserien. Steen made a good playoffs with Färjestad, 6 points in 12 games.
The following season he played for Färjestad, except a 4-games-loan to Bofors.
But after the 2005/05 season Leksand was relegated from Elitserien to Allsvenskan. He then moved to fellow Allsvenskan side Södertälje Saskatchewan in 2006 before joining the Malmö Redhawks in 2007. Due to several knee injuries Carl Steen declared on August 25, 2009 that he ends his hockey career.
Carl Steen is engaged for marriage with the Swedish diver Anna Lindberg and together they have one son, Yelverton, born in 2009.
