Emil Bemström

Sweden Emil Bemström


Date of birth	June 1, 1999
place of birth	Nykoping , Sweden
size	179 cm
Weight	82 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 4th round, 117th position Columbus Blue Jackets

Career stations

2015-2018	Leksands IF
2018-2019	Djurgårdens IF
since 2019	Columbus Blue Jackets

Emil Erik Bemström (born June 1, 1999 in Nyköping ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL) since May 2019 and plays there in the position of the center .

Career

Emil Bemström was born in Nyköping and played for Järna SK from Järna in his youth . For the 2015/16 season he moved to the junior division of Leksands IF , for whose U20 he ran from then on in the J20 SuperElit , the highest-ranking junior league in Sweden. There he achieved in the following year with 33 scorer points from 28 games an average of over 1.0 per game and also made his debut for the men's selection of Leksands IF in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL). Subsequently, the Columbus Blue Jackets considered him in 117th position in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft . In the 2017/18 season, the attacker ran after relegation from the SHL in the second-rate Allsvenskan , where the team missed direct promotion to the playoffs. As a result, Bemström returned to SHL by moving, so he joined Djurgårdens IF in May 2018 . There he increased his performance significantly, so he was with 23 goals scored with the Håkan Loob Trophy best goalscorer in the league. He was also honored as Årets nykomling , the best rookie of the year.

Following these achievements, Bemström signed an entry-level contract with Columbus Blue Jackets in May 2019 . As part of the preparation for the 2019/20 season, he earned a place in their squad, so that he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2019 and has been there regularly since then.

International

Bemström gained his first international experience at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016 . There he took fourth place with the Swedish selection as well as in the U18 World Cup 2017 that followed a little later . He then took part in the 2019 U20 World Cup with the U20 national team of his home country , where the Tre Kronor took fifth place. He finally made his debut for the Swedish national team as part of the Euro Hockey Tour of the 2018/19 season .

Achievements and Awards

2019 Håkan Loob Trophy
2019 Årets nykomling

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
2015/16	Leksands IF J20	J20 SuperElit	5	0	0	0	+1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Leksands IF J20	J20 SuperElit	28	21st	12	33	+3	35	3	0	0	0	-1	0
2016/17	Leksands IF	SHL	5	0	0	0	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Leksands IF J20	J20 SuperElit	18th	12	13	25th	± 0	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Leksands IF	Allsvenskan	33	8th	7th	15th	+8	33	11	2	0	2	-2	2
2018/19	Djurgårdens IF	SHL	47	23	12	35	+10	8th	19th	5	5	10	+3	2
J20 SuperElit overall			51	33	25th	58	+4	49	3	0	0	0	-1	0
SHL total			52	23	12	35	+9	8th	19th	5	5	10	+3	2

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2016	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial	4th Place	5	1	1	2	+1	0
2017	Sweden	U18 World Cup	4th Place	7th	1	1	2	± 0	2
2019	Sweden	U20 World Cup	5th place	5	4th	2	6th	+3	20th
Juniors overall				17th	6th	4th	10	+4	22nd

( 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 )

family

His father Jörgen Bemström and his uncle Stefan Bemström were also active as ice hockey players in the highest Swedish league.

Web links

Player biography on the Columbus Blue Jackets website
Emil Bemström at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ CBJ sign Bemstrom to entry level contract. nhl.com, May 14, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2020 .

Squad of Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2019/20 season

personal data
SURNAME	Bemström, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bemstrom, Emil; Bemström, Emil Erik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nykoping , Sweden

[1] CBJ sign Bemstrom to entry level contract. nhl.com, May 14, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2020 .