Elias Pettersson

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SwedenSweden  Elias Pettersson Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 12, 1998
place of birth Sundsvall , Sweden
size 188 cm
Weight 75 kg
position center
number # 40
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2017 , 1st round, 5th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
until 2017 Timrå IK
2017-2018 Vaxjo Lakers
since 2018 Vancouver Canucks

Fredrik Elias Pettersson (born November 12, 1998 in Sundsvall ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League since May 2018 . In the 2017 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in fifth position by the Canucks and ended the 2018/19 season with the Calder Memorial Trophy as Rookie of the Year. Before that, he played for the Växjö Lakers in his home country , with whom he became Swedish champion and received numerous individual awards. With the Swedish national team , the center won the gold medal at the 2018 World Cup .

Career

Elias Pettersson was born in Sundsvall and grew up around 100 kilometers away Ånge , where he played for Ånge IK in his youth . He then moved to the youth department of Timrå IK , for whose J20 he played in the J20 SuperElit , Sweden's highest junior league, from the 2014/15 season . In the course of the 2015/16 season, the attacker made his debut for the club's men's team in the Allsvenskan , the second highest Swedish league and therefore in the professional field. After scoring 41 points in 43 games for Timrå in the following year , the Swede was considered one of the outstanding talents for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2017 , as the Central Scouting Service of the National Hockey League (NHL) rated him second in Europe Field player a. In the actual draft he was subsequently selected in fifth place by the Vancouver Canucks .

In April 2017 Pettersson had already signed a three-year contract with the Växjö Lakers and thus switched to Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL). In the highest Swedish professional league, he promptly made his breakthrough, so that he was honored with numerous awards. In the regular season he led the entire league in scorer points (56) and in the plus / minus rating (+27), so that he was awarded the goldpuck as MVP and as the best striker of the SHL. At the same time he set a new record for the most points of a U20 player in the top Swedish division, which was previously held by Kent Nilsson (53 points; 1975/76 season ). As a result, he received the title of Årets nykomling as rookie of the year. In addition to his personal successes, the attacker also won the Swedish championship with the Växjö Lakers, to which he played a major role with the most goals (9) and points (19) in the playoffs. As a result, Pettersson was awarded the Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy as a playoff MVP, with the choice of the 14-member jury being unanimous for the first time in the history of the award.

In May 2018, Petterson finally signed an entry-level contract with the Vancouver Canucks. In the following pre-season he earned a place in the Canucks squad and finally made his debut in the NHL in October 2018. Despite an injury break and only eight games played, he led the rookies of the league at the end of the month with ten points and was consequently honored as NHL rookie of the month . Two months later he was given the award again before he ended the season with 28 goals, 38 assists and 66 points and thus topped the rookie scorer list in all three categories. As a result, he also received the Calder Memorial Trophy as Rookie of the Year at the end of the season and was also voted into the NHL All-Rookie Team .

International

Pettersson gained his first international experience with the Swedish U18 team, with which he won the silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 and the U18 World Cup in 2016 . He then took part in the U20 World Championships in 2017 and 2018 with the U20 national team, where he won another silver medal with the team in 2018. The attacker made his debut for the senior national team in his home country as part of the 2017/18 Euro Hockey Tour , before joining their squad at the 2018 World Cup a little later . There the Tre Kronor won the world title, but Pettersson broke his left thumb in the preliminary round and was unable to play the rest of the tournament after five games.

Achievements and Awards

International

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
2014/15 Timrå IK J20 J20 SuperElit 6th 4th 9 13 +10 2 1 1 1 2 -2 0
2015/16 Timrå IK J20 J20 SuperElit 22nd 6th 8th 14th -2 20th 2 1 4 1 3 1 7 1 +5 1 0 1
2015/16 Timrå IK Allsvenskan 25th 3 6th 9 +2 0 5 0 4th 4th +4 2
2016/17 Timrå IK J20 J20 SuperElit - - - - - - 2 0 1 1 +1 2
2016/17 Timrå IK Allsvenskan 43 19th 22nd 41 +15 14th 3 2 4th 6th +2 0
2017/18 Vaxjo Lakers SHL 44 24 32 56 +27 14th 13 10 9 19th +17 4th
2018/19 Vancouver Canucks NHL 71 28 38 66 +3 12 - - - - - -
J20 SuperElit overall 28 10 17th 27 +8 22nd 5 5 5 10 +4 2
Allsvenskan total 68 22nd 28 50 +17 14th 8th 2 8th 10 +6 2
Svenska hockey player overall 44 24 32 56 +27 14th 13 10 9 19th +17 4th
NHL overall 71 28 38 66 +3 12 - - - - - -

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2015 Sweden Hlinka Memorial 2nd place, silver 5 0 0 0 -2 0
2016 Sweden U18 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 1 7th 8th +3 4th
2017 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 6th 0 1 1 +1 0
2018 Sweden U20 World Cup 2nd place, silver 7th 5 2 7th -1 0
2018 Sweden WM 1st place, gold 5 1 2 3 +2 0
2019 Sweden WM 5th place 8th 3 7th 10 ± 0 2
Juniors overall 25th 6th 10 16 +1 4th
Men overall 13 4th 9 13 +2 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 )

Personal

His older brother Emil Pettersson (* 1994) is also an ice hockey player, played in the SHL and was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 by the Nashville Predators .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike G. Morreale: 2017 Draft: Nolan Patrick of Brandon ranked No. 1. nhl.com, April 11, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Carolina Toresson: Ung talang clear för Växjö Lakers. vaxjolakers.se, April 6, 2017, accessed May 23, 2018 (Swedish).
  3. ^ Daniel Wagner: Elias Pettersson is better than (19-year-old) Peter Forsberg and Kent Nilsson. vancourier.com, March 8, 2018, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Liv Memorial Trophy SHL-slutspel 2018 går till… sico.nu, accessed on May 23, 2018 (Swedish).
  5. ^ Canucks Sign Pettersson. nhl.com, May 25, 2018, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  6. ^ Daniel Wagner: Elias Pettersson suffers broken thumb, out for World Hockey Championships. vancourier.com, May 13, 2018, accessed May 23, 2018 .
Squad of the Vancouver Canucks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Pettersson, Elias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pettersson, Fredrik Elias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Sundsvall , Sweden