Fredrik Pettersson

Fredrik Pettersson
Date of birth	June 10, 1987
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
size	174.5 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 5th lap, 157th position Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
until 2005	Frölunda HC
2005-2007	Calgary Hitmen
2007-2010	Frölunda HC
2010-2011	Chicago Wolves
2011–2012	Frölunda HC
2012-2013	HK Donbass Donetsk
2013-2016	HC Lugano
2016	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2016-2017	HK Dinamo Minsk
since 2017	ZSC Lions

John Fredrik Michael Pettersson (born June 10, 1987 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Swiss club ZSC Lions in the National League since July 2017 .

Career

Fredrik Pettersson began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Frölunda HC , with whose U18 juniors he won the championship of the U18 junior Allsvenskan in 2003, 2004 and 2005, as well as with its U20 juniors during the season 2004/05 champion of the U20 junior SuperElit. Then the winger was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2005 in the fifth round as a total of 157 players by the Edmonton Oilers , for whom he never played. Instead, he ran from 2005 to 2007 for the Calgary Hitmen in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League .

From 2007 to 2010 Pettersson played for his hometown club Frölunda HC in the Swedish Elitserien . There he convinced with 44 goals and 46 assists in 184 games, so that on June 15, 2010 he was signed as a free agent by the Atlanta Thrashers from the National Hockey League . For the 2010/11 season , the Swede Atlanta's farm team , the Chicago Wolves from the American Hockey League , was assigned.

In July 2011 Pettersson returned again to Frölunda HC, where he signed a four-year contract. A year later, this contract was dissolved and Petterson moved to HK Donbass Donetsk , for which he was active in the KHL until October 2013 . In autumn 2013 he moved to HC Lugano in Switzerland . There he was one of the top performers in the following three seasons and advanced to the NLA top scorer in the 2014/15 season . At the end of the 2015/16 season, he used an exit clause and moved to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the KHL. There he moved to HK Dinamo Minsk after 24 games .

In the summer of 2017, he moved to the ZSC Lions , where he signed a contract for one year with the option for another.

International

For Sweden , Pettersson took part in the junior division at the U18 World Junior Championship in 2005 , in which he finished third with his team, as well as the U20 World Junior Championships in 2006 and 2007 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2010 World Cup in Germany , where he won the bronze medal with Sweden. He also played numerous test matches for various Swedish junior national teams and the men's national team.

At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was again part of the national team and won the gold medal with it.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2010 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2013 IIHF Continental Cup -Win with HK Donbass Donetsk
• 2013 gold medal at the world championship
• 2015 PostFinance Top Scorer
• 2018 Swiss champion with the ZSC Lions

Elitserien Statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	160	34	43	77	172
Playoffs	3	24	10	3	13	20th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Fredrik Pettersson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Fredrik Pettersson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recent news on Fredrik Pettersson - Winnipeg Jets - Rotoworld.com. In: rotoworld.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Thrashers Send Four to Chicago - OurSports Central. In: oursportscentral.com. October 4, 2010, accessed October 5, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , HC Lugano: Pettersson uses exit clause , April 19, 2016, accessed on October 5, 2016
4. ↑ ZSC Lions get Fredrik Pettersson. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 5, 2017 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.