Christian Folin

Christian Folin
Date of birth	February 9, 1991
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
size	191 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
until 2010	Frölunda HC
2010	Fargo Force
2010–2012	Austin Bruins
2012-2014	University of Massachusetts Lowell
2014-2017	Minnesota Wild Iowa Wild
2017-2018	Los Angeles Kings
2018-2019	Philadelphia Flyers
since 2019	Canadiens de Montréal

Christian Folin (born February 9, 1991 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League since February 2019 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Folin in the UMass Lowell River Hawks jersey (2014)

Christian Folin was born in Gothenburg and went through the junior departments of Frölunda HC in his hometown . In the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons, the defender played for the club's U20 team in the J20 SuperElit , Sweden's highest junior league. In 2010 he also completed a single assignment at Hanhals IF in Division 2 , the fourth highest division. Folin then left his home country without being selected in an NHL Entry Draft and joined the Fargo Force from the United States Hockey League (USHL) at the beginning of the 2010/11 season . In Fargo, the defender completed twelve missions before moving to the Austin Bruins in the North American Hockey League (NAHL), which is one level lower . There Folin established himself and came in the 2011/12 season on 31 scorer points in 54 games, so that he enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the following fall . At UMass Lowell he began to study economics and from then on played for their ice hockey team, the River Hawks , in Hockey East from the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association .

As a freshman , Folin won the Hockey East championship with the River Hawks , before leading all defenders of his team in points (20) the following year. As a result, the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League (NHL) equipped him with an entry contract in April 2014 and made him debut directly in the NHL a little later, where he succeeded in assisting. In the following season 2014/15 Folin came to 40 NHL appearances, which he no longer reached the following year with 26 games, but was also used regularly with the Iowa Wild , the farm team of the Minnesota Wild from the American Hockey League (AHL ). With the start of the 2016/17 season , the Swede is again in the NHL lineup of the Wild.

After three years in Minnesota, his expiring contract was not extended after the 2016/17 season, so the Swede joined the Los Angeles Kings as a free agent in July 2017 . In the same way, he moved to the Philadelphia Flyers in July 2018 . There the Swede was unable to fully meet the expectations placed on him, so that he was transferred to the Canadiens de Montréal together with Dale Weise in February 2019 . In return, Byron Froese and David Schlemko switched to the Flyers.

Achievements and Awards

• 2012 NAHL All-Central-Division Team
• 2013 Hockey East Championship with the University of Massachusetts Lowell

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
2008/09	Frölunda HC J20	J20 SuperElit		13	2	1	3		4th		4th	0	0	0		2
2009/10	Frölunda HC J20	J20 SuperElit		38	3	16	19th		22nd		5	0	3	3		20th
2010/11	Fargo Force	USHL		12	2	2	4th	−1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Austin Bruins	NEAR		33	2	9	11	−4	27		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Austin Bruins	NEAR		54	11	20th	31	+45	50		2	0	1	1	−1	2
2012/13	University of Massachusetts Lowell	NCAA		38	6th	15th	21st	+17	24
2013/14	University of Massachusetts Lowell	NCAA		41	6th	14th	20th	+10	31
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL		1	0	1	1	+3	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Iowa Wild	AHL		13	2	2	4th	−6	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL		40	2	8th	10	+3	13		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Iowa Wild	AHL		28	4th	9	13	−14	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL		26th	0	4th	4th	−1	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		51	2	6th	8th	+10	26th		2	0	0	0	−2	2
2017/18	Los Angeles Kings	NHL		65	3	10	13	+1	30th		4th	0	0	0	−4	0
2018/19	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		26th	0	2	2	+5	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		19th	0	4th	4th	+1	11		-	-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				51	5	17th	22nd		26th		9	0	3	3		22nd
NAHL total				87	13	29	42	+41	77		2	0	1	1	−1	2
NCAA overall				79	12	29	41	+27	55
AHL total				41	6th	11	17th	−20	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				228	7th	35	42	+22	107		6th	0	0	0	−6	2

( 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 : Christian Folin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Canadiens de Montréal website
• Christian Folin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wild Signs Folin To Entry-Level Deal. www.nhl.com, April 1, 2014, accessed on October 23, 2016 (English).