Anton Lindholm

Anton Lindholm
Date of birth	November 29, 1994
place of birth	Skelleftea , Sweden
size	181 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 5th round, 144th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
until 2016	Skellefteå AIK
2016-2018	San Antonio Rampage
since 2017	Colorado Avalanche Colorado Eagles

Anton Lindholm (born November 29, 1994 in Skellefteå ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League since May 2016 and for their farm team , the Colorado Eagles , in the American Hockey League's position Defender plays.

Career

Lindholm comes from the offspring of Skellefteå AIK , the club in his hometown. For the professional team, the defender made his debut in the Elitserien during the 2011/12 season . At the end of the 2013/14 season he finally established himself as a regular player and celebrated winning the Swedish championship with the team that same season . After the game year he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in the fifth round in 144th position by the Colorado Avalanche from the National Hockey League .

Before moving to North America, Lindholm stayed in Skellefteå for two more years and celebrated two more runners-up titles before he was signed by the Avalanche in May 2016. They used him in the American Hockey League on their farm team , the San Antonio Rampage , in the course of the 2016/17 season until March 2017 . In the middle of the month, the Swede was appointed to the Colorado NHL squad.

International

For his home country Lindholm played for the first time at the World Cup in Russia in 2016 at a major international tournament. Lindholm was used in three tournament games and finally reached sixth place with the Tre Kronor .

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 Swedish U18 junior runner-up with the Skellefteå AIK
• 2014 Swedish champion with the Skellefteå AIK
• 2015 Swedish runner-up with the Skellefteå AIK
• 2016 Swedish runner-up with the Skellefteå AIK

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
2010/11	Skellefteå AIK	J20 SuperElit		3	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Skellefteå AIK	J20 SuperElit		43	1	3	4th	20th		3	0	1	1	0
2011/12	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Skellefteå AIK	J20 SuperElit		37	1	9	10	24		5	1	0	1	2
2012/13	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien		2	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Skellefteå AIK	J20 SuperElit		39	1	5	6th	34		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Piteå HC	Division 1		1	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		7th	0	0	0	4th		14th	1	2	3	4th
2014/15	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		35	0	7th	7th	35		15th	1	4th	5	8th
2014/15	Malmo Redhawks	Allsvenskan		5	1	2	3	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		30th	0	4th	4th	18th		16	0	1	1	6th
2016/17	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		62	2	11	13	39		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		12	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		48	0	4th	4th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Colorado Eagles	AHL		57	1	7th	8th	16		4th	1	0	1	0
2018/19	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				122	3	17th	20th	82		8th	1	1	2	2
Elitserien / Svenska hockey clothes overall				75	0	11	11	59		45	2	7th	9	18th
AHL total				119	3	18th	21st	55		4th	1	0	1	0
NHL overall				62	0	4th	4th	16		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Sweden at:

• World Championship 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2016	Sweden	WM	6th place		3	0	0	0	0
Men overall					3	0	0	0	0

( 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

• Player biography on the Colorado Avalanche website
• Anton Lindholm at eliteprospects.com (English)