Career
Albelin has, over the course of a 24-year professional career, played for three National Hockey League teams: the Quebec Nordiques, the New Jersey Devils, and the Calgary Flames. Albelin was drafted 152nd overall by Quebec in the 1983 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Before joining the club he played five seasons in the Swedish Elitserien.
He played a year and a half for the Nordiques before being traded to New Jersey.
In 1996 he was traded to Calgary, but he signed to play with New Jersey again in 2001. His best season was the 1988-1989 season when he piled up 37 points.
Albelin announced his retirement from hockey on 29 July 2004, however the Devils re-signed him in December 2005 (abbreviating his retirement after he had practiced with the team as an unsigned player for nearly half the season). He finished out his final year in 2006 playing for the Devils.
On 25 July 2007 Albelin was hired by the New Jersey Devils as an assistant coach to head coach Brent Sutter.
lieutenant was his first National Hockey League coaching job. On 10 August 2010, Albelin was named assistant coach of the Albany Devils, the AHL affiliate of the New Jersey Devils. On 9 September 2014, following Scott Stevens" decision to step down from a coaching position in New Jersey, Albelin was promoted and will be an assistant coach under Peter DeBoer for the 2014-2015 season.
