Alexander Urbom
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Date of birth | December 20, 1990 |
place of birth | Stockholm , Sweden |
size | 192 cm |
Weight | 98 kg |
position | defender |
number | # 34 |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2009 , 3rd round, 73rd position New Jersey Devils |
Career stations | |
until 2009 | Djurgårdens IF |
2009-2010 | Brandon Wheat Kings |
2010-2013 |
New Jersey Devils Albany Devils |
2013-2014 | Washington Capitals |
2014 | Albany Devils |
2014-2015 | Severstal Cherepovets |
2015-2016 | Skellefteå AIK |
2016-2019 | Djurgårdens IF |
since 2019 | Düsseldorfer EG |
Alexander Urbom (born December 20, 1990 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Düsseldorfer EG in the German Ice Hockey League since May 2019 .
Career
Alexander Urbom began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Djurgårdens IF , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Elitserien in the 2008/09 season . In his rookie year , he remained defender in 28 games without points and received two penalty minutes.
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He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2009 in the third round as a total of 73rd player by the New Jersey Devils . First, however, he spent a season with the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League , before he was in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils for the first time on the ice in the 2010/11 season . At the same time, he played from the 2010/11 season for their farm team Albany Devils in the second-rate American Hockey League . At the beginning of the 2013-14 season , New Jersey put Urbom on the waiver . In October 2013, the Washington Capitals then signed him . In January 2014 he was transferred back to the Devils via the waiver, but played again only with the farm team in Albany until the end of the season.
In the summer of 2014, the defender returned to Europe and joined the Russian club Severstal Tscherepowez from the Continental Hockey League . For the 2015/16 season Urbom moved to his Swedish homeland and signed a contract with Skellefteå AIK from Svenska Hockeyligan . Before his second year of contract there, Urbom was loaned to his hometown club, Djurgårdens IF.
After a total of three years with Djurgården, Urbom signed a one-year contract with Düsseldorfer EG in May 2019 .
Achievements and Awards
- 2012 AHL All-Star Classic
- 2016 Swedish runner-up with the Skellefteå AIK
- 2019 Swedish runner-up with Djurgårdens IF
statistics
Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | Plus minus | |
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NHL Regular Season | 3 | 14th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | −1 |
NHL playoffs | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
AHL regular season | 4th | 225 | 5 | 49 | 54 | 187 | −18 |
AHL playoffs | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 |
SHL main round | 4th | 164 | 1 | 17th | 18th | 196 | + 3 |
SHL playoffs | 3 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | +4 |
(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)
Web links
- Alexander Urbom in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
- Alexander Urbom at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nhl.com: "Capitals Claim Alexander Urbom Off Waivers from New Jersey" (English, October 3, 2013, accessed on November 26, 2013)
- ↑ Djurgården lånar Alexander Urbom. In: aftonbladet.se. May 23, 2016, accessed September 4, 2019 (Swedish).
- ↑ Abwehr-Hüne and Swedish vice-champion Alexander Urbom signs in Düsseldorf! In: deg-eishockey.de. May 7, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
Goalkeeper:
Hendrik Hane |
Mirko Pantkowski
Defender:
Alexander Dersch |
Bernhard Ebner |
Nicolas Geitner |
Johannes Huss |
Nicholas B. Jensen |
Johannes Johannesen |
Marco Nowak |
Alexander Urbom |
Marc Zanetti
Attacker:
Luke Adam |
Alexander Barta |
Rihards Bukarts |
Patrick Buzás |
Tobias Eder |
Alexander Ehl |
Jerome Flaake |
Reid Gardiner |
Charlie Jahnke |
Maximilian Kammerer |
Chad Nehring |
Ken André Olimb |
Victor Svensson
Head Coach: Harold Kreis Assistant Coach: Thomas Dolak General Manager: Stefan Adam
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Urbom, Alexander |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm , Sweden |