Adam Boqvist

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SwedenSweden  Adam Boqvist Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 15, 2000
place of birth Falun , Sweden
size 180 cm
Weight 81 kg
position defender
number # 27
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2018 , 1st round, 8th position
Chicago Blackhawks
Career stations
until 2015 Hedemora SK
2015-2018 Brynäs IF
2018-2019 London Knights
2019 Rockford IceHogs
since 2019 Chicago Blackhawks

Adam Nils Boqvist (born August 15, 2000 in Falun ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League since July 2018 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Adam Boqvist was born in Falun and raised in Hedemora . There he started playing ice hockey at the local Hedemora SK before joining the youth team at Brynäs IF for the 2015/16 season. For the team from Gävle he played in the J20 SuperElit , Sweden's highest-ranking junior league, from the 2016/17 season . There the defender achieved a point average of almost 1.0 per game (24 in 25 games) in the following year, while he made his debut for the men's selection of Brynäs IF in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL). There were also seven games on loan at Almtuna IS from the second-class Allsvenskan .

In the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2018 , Boqvist was selected in eighth position by the Chicago Blackhawks and a little later equipped with an entry contract . As a result, the Swede decided to immediately switch to North American ice by joining the London Knights from the Canadian Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He also established himself as an offensive defender with the Knights, recording 60 scorer points in 54 games and was included in the OHL Second All-Star Team . At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, he moved permanently to the organization of the Blackhawks, who initially used him at the beginning of the season on their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), the Rockford IceHogs . In early November, however, the defender was called to Chicago for the first time and thus made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he has been used regularly since then.

International

Boqvist gained his first international experience as part of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2016 , where he promptly won the gold medal with the Swedish U-17 selection. At U18 level, he took part in the 2017 and 2018 World Championships , with the team winning the bronze medal in 2018 as well as in the meantime at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2017 . At the U18 World Cup in 2018, he was also named the best defender of the tournament. He finally made his debut for the U20 national team of the Tre Kronor at the U20 World Cup 2019 , where he achieved fifth place. Parallel to his appearances at junior level was Boqvist in April 2018 for the first time in the senior team as part of a test game on the ice.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2016/17 Brynäs IF J20 J20 SuperElit 18th 4th 12 16 +1 10 2 0 0 0 -2 0
2017/18 Brynäs IF J20 J20 SuperElit 25th 14th 10 24 +6 18th 3 3 2 5 +2 29
2017/18 Almtuna IS Allsvenskan 7th 0 2 2 +1 2 - - - - - -
2017/18 Brynäs IF SHL 15th 0 1 1 –7 4th 3 0 0 0 +1 0
2018/19 London Knights OHL 54 20th 40 60 +12 12 11 10 3 13 -4 6th
J20 SuperElit overall 43 18th 22nd 40 +7 28 5 3 2 5 ± 0 29

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2016 Sweden WHC gold medal 6th 4th 0 4th 6th
2017 Sweden U18 World Cup 4th Place 6th 0 0 0 ± 0 0
2017 Sweden Hlinka Memorial Bronze medal 5 1 7th 8th 0
2018 Sweden U18 World Cup Bronze medal 6th 3 3 6th +6 2
2019 Sweden U20 World Cup 5th place 5 1 3 4th +4 0
Juniors overall 28 9 13 22nd 8th

( 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 )

family

His older brother Jesper Boqvist (* 1998) is also an active ice hockey player and has also played in the NHL since the 2019/20 season.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Blackhawks agree to terms with Boqvist. nhl.com, July 1, 2018, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
Squad of the Chicago Blackhawks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Boqvist, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boqvist, Adam Nils (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Falun , Sweden