Christoffer Ehn

Sweden Christoffer Ehn


Date of birth	April 5, 1996
place of birth	Skara , Sweden
size	191 cm
Weight	82 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 4th round, 106th position Detroit Red Wings

Career stations

2012-2018	Frölunda HC
2018-2019	Grand Rapids Griffins
since 2018	Detroit Red Wings

Christoffer Ehn (born April 5, 1996 in Skara ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League since April 2017 .

Career

Christoffer Ehn was born in Skara and played there in his youth for Skara IK before spending the 2012/13 season at Skövde IK in neighboring Skövde . In the following year, the attacker joined the youth department of Frölunda HC from Gothenburg and started playing for their J20 in the J20 SuperElit , the highest-ranking junior league in Sweden , from the 2013/14 season . He also made his debut for the professional team of Frölunda in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL) before he was selected in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2014 in 106th position by the Detroit Red Wings .

After he was briefly used on loan at IK Oskarshamn and BIK Karlskoga in the second-class Allsvenskan , Ehn established himself in Frölunda's SHL squad during the 2015/16 season. This season he won the Champions Hockey League (CHL) as well as the Swedish championship with the team before the team was able to defend the CHL title the following year. He then signed an entry-level contract with Red Wings in April 2017 , but they kept him on loan for another season in Gothenburg. Finally, the Swede moved to North America for the 2018/19 season and subsequently made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2018 . At the same time, he was also used with the Red Wings farm team , the Grand Rapids Griffins , in the American Hockey League (AHL), but established himself in Detroit's NHL squad from the 2019/20 season.

International

On an international level, Ehn took part in the U18 World Championship in 2014 and in the U20 World Championship in 2015 and 2016 with the junior national teams of his home country , where he finished fourth with the Tre Kronor .

Achievements and Awards

2016 Champions Hockey League win with the Frölunda HC
2016 Swedish champion with the Frölunda HC
2017 Champions Hockey League win with Frölunda HC

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
2013/14	Frölunda HC J20	J20 SuperElit	45	4th	7th	11	–7	14th	3	3	0	3	+1	0
2013/14	Frölunda HC	SHL	2	0	0	0	± 0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Frölunda HC J20	J20 SuperElit	40	12	24	36	+10	61	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	IK Oskarshamn	Allsvenskan	4th	0	0	0	± 0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Frölunda HC	SHL	6th	0	0	0	± 0	2	10	0	0	0	-3	2
2015/16	Frölunda HC J20	J20 SuperElit	14th	9	7th	16	+15	0	1	2	0	2	+1	0
2015/16	BIK Karlskoga	Allsvenskan	13	2	3	5	-4	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Frölunda HC	SHL	37	0	2	2	-4	2	16	0	1	1	-2	0
2016/17	Frölunda HC	SHL	52	4th	9	13	+3	10	14th	1	1	2	-1	4th
2017/18	Frölunda HC	SHL	50	7th	10	17th	+2	24	6th	0	0	0	-2	0
2018/19	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL	17th	2	5	7th	+4	8th	5	0	2	2	+3	2
2018/19	Detroit Red Wings	NHL	60	3	6th	9	-5	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Detroit Red Wings	NHL	54	2	2	4th	-21	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall			99	25th	38	63	+18	75	4th	5	0	5	+2	0
Allsvenskan total			17th	2	3	5	-4	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
SHL total			147	11	21st	32	+1	38	46	1	2	3	-8th	6th
NHL overall			114	5	8th	13	-26	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Sweden	U18 World Cup	4th Place	7th	0	3	3	-1	0
2015	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	0	2	2	-1	2
2016	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	1	1	2	+1	2
Juniors overall				21st	1	6th	7th	-1	4th

( 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 Detroit Red Wings website
Christoffer Ehn at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Alex DiFilippo: Red Wings sign forward Christoffer Ehn to entry-level contract. nhl.com, April 20, 2017, accessed January 1, 2019 .

Squad of the Detroit Red Wings in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Ehn, Christoffer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Skara , Sweden

[1] Alex DiFilippo: Red Wings sign forward Christoffer Ehn to entry-level contract. nhl.com, April 20, 2017, accessed January 1, 2019 .