Adam Almqvist

Adam Almqvist
Date of birth	February 27, 1991
place of birth	Jonkoping , Sweden
size	181 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 7th round, 210th position Detroit Red Wings
KHL Junior Draft	2011 , 2nd round, 33rd position HK CSKA Moscow
Career stations
2006–2012	HV71
2012-2014	Grand Rapids Griffins
2014-2015	Severstal Cherepovets
2015-2017	HV71
2017-2018	Frölunda HC
2018-2019	SC Bern
2019-2020	Admiral Vladivostok
since 2020	HK Dinamo Minsk

Adam Almqvist (born February 27, 1991 in Jönköping ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since July 2020 and plays there in the position of defender .

Career

Adam Almqvist began his career in the youth teams of HV71 and already showed his skills as an offensive defender in the Swedish J18 Elit at the age of 16, which also gave him playing times with the U20 juniors in the J20 SuperElit in the same season . In 2008 he also played for his Swedish home province of Småland in the national TV swaddling tournament, won the championship and was the best assist provider among the defenders.

In the 2008/09 season he was a regular player in the U20 team of HV71 and the highest point defender of the J20 SuperElit. Both the preliminary and the main round finished the team in second place. In the playoffs they made it to the final of the Swedish U20 Junior Championship, in which the Brynäs IF team lost after two games. Despite good performance in the juniors, Almqvist was not nominated by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association for the U18 Junior World Championship in 2009 because he did not convince in international tournaments during the season.

A few months later, Almqvist was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in the seventh round at position 210 and thus as the penultimate player. As a result, he took part in the Red Wings training camp in autumn 2009, but returned to Sweden, where he initially continued to play with the U20 juniors of HV71. There he showed relatively quickly that he had developed significantly. In 15 games he scored five goals and prepared 29 goals and was the league's top scorer for a long period of time. Due to the increase in performance, he was appointed to the professional team and made his debut in the Elitserien in November 2009 , where he stood in a row with the former NHL player Janne Niinimaa on the ice during the 2009/10 season .

At that time Almqvist was characterized as a defender whose strengths were mainly on the offensive. On the defensive, he would still have deficits due to his stature. He has a good shot and, according to Håkan Andersson, European Scouting Director of the Detroit Red Wings, has a very well developed ice hockey instinct.

In May 2011 Almqvist signed a three-year entry - level contract with the Detroit Red Wings, which parked him on loan at HV71 for the 2011/12 season . The defender made his AHL debut for their farm team, the Grand Rapids Griffins , on March 30, 2012 in the home game against the Charlotte Checkers .

In November 2013 Almqvist made his debut in the NHL and played a total of two missions in which he scored a goal. At the same time, he continued to play mainly for the Griffins and ended the 2013/14 season as the second best scorer of his team. With 49 assists, Almqvist was also the third best assists in the league and the most successful defender in this category. After the end of the season he was awarded for his achievements with the election to the AHL Second All-Star Team .

After his NHL entry contract had expired, Almqvist decided to move to the Continental Hockey League and joined Severstal Tscherepowez . There he could not establish himself, however, and returned to the following season for HV71 in Sweden. For the 2018/19 season there was a commitment to SC Bern , with which he won the Swiss championship . For the following season, the Swede was awarded a one-year contract by Admiral Vladivostok . He then moved to the Belarusian capital club HK Dinamo Minsk within the league in July 2020 .

Achievements and Awards

2008 champion at the TV swaddling tournament with the province of Småland 2010 Swedish champion with HV71 2011 Best plus / minus balance of the Elitserien 2013 Calder Cup win with the Grand Rapids Griffins

2014 AHL Second All-Star Team 2019 Swiss champions with SC Bern 2020 participation in the KHL All-Star Game

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	HV71	U16		-	-	-	-	-		5	2	1	3	18th
2006/07	HV71	J18 Allsvenskan		1	0	0	0	0		1	0	0	0	0
2007/08	HV71	J18 elite		18th	8th	12	20th	28		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	HV71	J20 SuperElit		23	1	6th	7th	12		3	0	0	0	4th
2008/09	HV71	J20 SuperElit		41	8th	28	36	44		6th	1	5	6th	4th
2009/10	HV71	J20 SuperElit		15th	5	29	34	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	HV71	Elitserien		28	2	6th	8th	10		16	1	10	11	8th
2010/11	HV71	Elitserien		52	0	16	16	32		2	0	0	0	0
2010/11	HV71	J20 SuperElit		-	-	-	-	-		5	2	0	2	4th
2011/12	HV71	Elitserien		42	3	8th	11	26th		3	0	1	1	4th
2011/12	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		3	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		68	10	21st	31	34		21st	3	7th	10	12
2013/14	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		73	4th	49	53	56		1	0	0	0	0
2013/14	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		2	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Severstal Cherepovets	KHL		21st	0	4th	4th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HV71	SHL		47	6th	13	19th	30th		6th	0	2	2	6th
2016/17	HV71	SHL		52	4th	14th	18th	24		16	1	5	6th	12
2017/18	Frölunda HC	SHL		50	6th	23	29	34		6th	1	0	1	4th
2018/19	SC Bern	NL		50	1	14th	15th	20th		13	1	3	4th	29
2019/20	Admiral Vladivostok	KHL		58	8th	18th	26th	34		-	-	-	-	-
Elitserien / SHL overall				271	21st	80	101	156		49	3	18th	21st	34
AHL total				144	14th	70	84	90		22nd	3	7th	10	12
KHL total				79	8th	22nd	30th	46		-	-	-	-	-

( 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 : Adam Almqvist  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Adam Almqvist at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ redwingscentral.com, profile and scouting report on Adam Almqvist ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )