Mikael Granlund

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Mikael Granlund
Date of birth February 26, 1992
place of birth Oulu , Finland
size 178 cm
Weight 81 kg
position center
number # 64
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2009 , 2nd round, 41st position
HK Dinamo Minsk
NHL Entry Draft 2010 , 1st round, 9th position
Minnesota Wild
Career stations
until 2006 Laser HT
2006-2009 Kärpät Oulu
2009–2012 HIFK Helsinki
2012-2013 Houston Eros
2013-2019 Minnesota Wild
since 2019 Nashville Predators

Mikael Antero Granlund (born February 26, 1992 in Oulu ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them in the position of the center . He became world champion in 2011 with the Finnish national team . His younger brother Markus is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Granlund in the HIFK Helsinki jersey

Mikael Granlund began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown at the age of five with the Kempeleen Kiekko-Ketut , who renamed themselves Laser HT four years later . For Laser he played in various junior leagues in Finland until 2006, including the junior C-SM liiga. In 2006 he moved to the junior division of Kärpät Oulu , for which he played in the Junior-B and Junior-A-SM-liiga until 2009.

For the professional team of Kärpät he made his debut in the SM-liiga during the season 2008/09 . The attacker remained pointless and punished in two games. He was then selected in the KHL Junior Draft 2009 in the second round as the 41st player from HK Dinamo Minsk . Initially, however, he stayed in Finland, where he signed a contract with HIFK Helsinki for the 2009/10 season . The Minnesota Wild selected Granlund in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in the first round as the ninth player.

In May 2012, Granlund signed a three-year NHL entry contract with the Wild. Due to the lockout at the beginning of the 2012/13 season , Granlund initially played for the Wild Farm Team, the Houston Eros , in the American Hockey League . After the lockout was over, he was named to the NHL squad and made his NHL debut for the Wild on January 19, 2013, scoring his first NHL goal against Semyon Varlamov of the Colorado Avalanche .

In the 2016/17 season , Granlund achieved by far his best personal statistics for the game with 26 goals and 43 assists. He then signed a new three-year contract in Minnesota in July 2017 that should earn him an average annual salary of $ 5.75 million. During the 2017/18 season, Granlund seamlessly continued his performance from the previous year and scored 67 points for the Wild in 77 games. He was the second best scorer in the team behind Eric Staal . Granlund reached the playoffs again with Minnesota and, like last season, was eliminated in the round of 16. The Finnish center started the 2018/19 game year again with Minnesota, where they scored 15 goals and 34 assists in 63 games. At the trade deadline on February 25, 2019, however, Granlund was transferred to the Nashville Predators in exchange with Kevin Fiala .

International

For Finland Granlund took part in the U18 Junior World Championship 2009 , the U20 Junior World Championship 2009 and the U20 Junior World Championship 2010 . At the U18 World Cup he won the bronze medal with Finland.

In the senior division, he played at the 2011 World Cup . There he scored a highly regarded and spectacular goal in his team's 3-0 semi-final victory against Russia : He scored 1-0 by standing behind the goal of Russian goalkeeper Konstantin Barulin , lifting the puck onto the face of his stick and him so placed in the top corner of the short corner. The movement comes from the sport of lacrosse, which is similar to ice hockey . A few weeks after the World Cup, the moment of the goal was recorded on a stamp . The final against arch-rivals Sweden ended 6-1, which made Granlund world champions with the Finnish team. He won the bronze medal with the Finnish national team at the 2014 Olympic Games and the silver medal at the 2016 World Cup , and was also elected to the tournament's All-Star Team. A little later he was also part of the Finnish squad at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

Mikael Granlund (foreground) at the parade to win the 2011 gold medal
  • 2007 Finnish C junior runner-up with Kärpät Oulu
  • 2008 Finnish C-Junior Champion with Kärpät Oulu
  • 2009 Finnish runner-up with Kärpät Oulu

International

  • 2012 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship
  • 2014 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
  • 2014 Winter Olympics All-Star Team
  • 2016 silver medal at the world championship
  • 2016 World Championship All-Star Team

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2006/07 Kärpät Oulu Fin Jr C 22nd 35 33 68 4th 8th 3 7th 10 0
2007/08 Kärpät Oulu Fin Jr B 31 22nd 27 49 20th
2008/09 Kärpät Oulu Fin-Jr A 35 21st 36 57 45
2008/09 U20 Finland Mestis 6th 4th 3 7th 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Kärpät Oulu SM-liiga 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2009/10 U20 Finland Mestis 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2009/10 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 43 13 27 40 2 6th 1 5 6th 0
2010/11 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 39 8th 28 36 14th 15th 5 11 16 4th
2011/12 HIFK Helsinki SM-liiga 45 20th 31 51 18th 4th 0 2 2 0
2012/13 Houston Eros AHL 29 10 18th 28 8th 5 1 1 2 4th
2012/13 Minnesota Wild NHL 27 2 6th 8th 6th - - - - -
2013/14 Minnesota Wild NHL 63 8th 33 41 22nd 13 4th 3 7th 2
2014/15 Minnesota Wild NHL 68 8th 31 39 20th 10 2 4th 6th 0
2015/16 Minnesota Wild NHL 82 13 31 44 20th 6th 1 2 3 0
2016/17 Minnesota Wild NHL 81 26th 43 69 12 5 0 2 2 2
2017/18 Minnesota Wild NHL 77 21st 46 67 18th 5 1 2 3 0
2018/19 Minnesota Wild NHL 63 15th 34 49 20th - - - - -
2018/19 Nashville Predators NHL 16 1 4th 5 4th 6th 1 1 2 2
2019/20 Nashville Predators NHL 63 17th 13 30th 28 4th 0 1 1 2
Mestis total 7th 4th 3 7th 0 - - - - -
SM-liiga total 129 41 86 127 34 25th 6th 18th 24 4th
NHL overall 540 111 241 352 150 49 9 15th 24 8th

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2008 Finland U17-WHC 6th place 5 1 1 2 0
2009 Finland U20 World Cup 7th place 6th 2 1 3 0
2009 Finland U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 2 11 13 0
2010 Finland U20 World Cup 5th place 6th 1 6th 7th 4th
2010 Finland U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 4th 9 13 4th
2011 Finland WM 1st place, gold 9 2 7th 9 2
2012 Finland U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 2 9 11 0
2012 Finland WM 4th Place 10 1 4th 5 2
2013 Finland WM 4th Place 4th 1 2 3 0
2014 Finland Olympia 3rd place, bronze 6th 3 4th 7th 4th
2016 Finland WM 2nd place, silver 10 4th 8th 12 2
2016 Finland World cup 8th place 3 0 0 0 0
2018 Finland WM 5th place 8th 2 7th 9 2
Juniors overall 36 12 37 49 8th
Men overall 50 13 32 45 12

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Mikael Granlund  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Young hockey prospect Granlund signs 3 year contract with NHL's Minnesota Wild. hs.fi, May 1, 2012, accessed May 1, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Houston Eros Announce Training Camp Roster . September 27, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ Wild vs Avalanche Boxscore. National Hockey League , January 19, 2013, accessed January 19, 2013 .
  4. ^ Minnesota Wild Skaters Stats - 2017-18. espn.com, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  5. ^ Predators Acquire Mikael Granlund from Minnesota. nhl.com, February 25, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ youtube.com, youtube.de: Video about the goal
  7. ↑ youtube.com, video on the same trick in the championship
  8. ↑ spiegel.de, Sweden and Finland are playing for gold , Der Spiegel, May 13, 2011
  9. ↑ Martin Merk: Granlund's goal goes postal. In: iihf.com. May 27, 2011, accessed February 12, 2018 .
Squad of the Nashville Predators in the season 2019/20

Goalkeeper: Pekka Rinne  | Juuse Saros  
defender: Mattias Ekholm  ( A ) | Ryan Ellis  ( A ) | Dante Fabbro  | Korbinian Holzer  | Roman Josi  ( C ) | Yannick Weber  
Attacker: Viktor Arvidsson  | Nick Bonino  | Daniel Carr  | Matt Duchene  | Filip Forsberg  ( A ) | Mikael Granlund  | Rocco Grimaldi  | Calle Järnkrok  | Ryan Johansen  ( A ) | Colton Sissons  | Craig Smith  | Kyle Turris  | Austin Watson  
Head Coach:  John Hynes    Assistant  Coach : Dan Lambert  | Dan Muse    General Manager:  David Poile

personal data
SURNAME Granlund, Mikael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granlund, Mikael Antero (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Oulu , Finland