Gustav Olofsson

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Gustav Olofsson
Date of birth December 1, 1994
place of birth Borås , Sweden
size 191 cm
Weight 89 kg
position defender
number # 23
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2013 , 2nd round, 46th position
Minnesota Wild
Career stations
2012-2013 Green Bay Gamblers
2013-2014 Colorado College
2014-2017 Iowa Wild
2015-2018 Minnesota Wild
since 2018 Canadiens de Montréal
Rocket de Laval

Gustav Olofsson (* 1. December 1994 in Borås ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who since October 2018 with the de Canadiens Montréal in the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team, the de Rocket Laval , in the American Hockey League for Use comes.

Career

Gustav Olofsson was born in Borås, but grew up in Umeå and later in California . After a brief return to his Swedish homeland, the family finally settled in Colorado , where he played in a regional youth league for the Colorado Thunderbirds in his youth . At the end of the 2011/12 season, the defender moved to the Green Bay Gamblers in the United States Hockey League (USHL), who had selected him in the USHL Entry Draft 2011 in 29th position. The 2012/13 season was his first full season in the highest junior league in the United States, in which Olofsson came on 23 scorer points in 63 games and was then appointed to the USHL All-Rookie Team. As a result, he was selected in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 46th position by the Minnesota Wild . For now, however, Olofsson enrolled at Colorado College and ran for one season for their ice hockey team, the Tigers , in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference . He also represented his home country on an international level for the first time at the turn of the year when he won the silver medal with Sweden's U20 team at the 2014 U20 World Cup .

After the season he signed a contract with the Minnesota Wild in March 2014 and made his professional debut with their farm team , the Iowa Wild , in the American Hockey League a little later . In Iowa, the defender also started the 2014/15 season, but tore the glenoid labrum in his left shoulder in the first game and was out for the rest of the season. Thus, Olofsson only completed his first full professional season in 2015/16, in which he came to 52 AHL appearances and scored 17 points. He also made his debut in November 2015 for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League (NHL).

From the beginning of the 2016/17 season, the Swede continued to play mainly in the AHL and took part in the AHL All-Star Classic , but was regularly called up for short appearances in the NHL team of Wild. He finally spent the following season entirely in Minnesota. Before the start of the 2018/19 season, however, he was handed over to the Canadiens de Montréal in October , while William Bitten switched to the game in return . He then played only two games for the Rocket de Laval in the AHL this season and fell out the rest of the season due to a shoulder injury.

Achievements and Awards

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
2011/12 Green Bay Gamblers USHL 3 0 1 1 +1 0 - - - - - -
2012/13 Green Bay Gamblers USHL 63 2 21st 23 +11 59 4th 0 0 0 -2 0
2013/14 Colorado College NCAA 30th 4th 4th 8th -12 20th
2013/14 Iowa Wild AHL 8th 1 0 1 -1 2 - - - - - -
2014/15 Iowa Wild AHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2015/16 Iowa Wild AHL 52 2 15th 17th –11 12 - - - - - -
2015/16 Minnesota Wild NHL 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2016/17 Iowa Wild AHL 59 6th 18th 24 -5 32 - - - - - -
2016/17 Minnesota Wild NHL 13 0 3 3 -1 2 - - - - - -
2017/18 Minnesota Wild NHL 41 0 8th 8th ± 0 14th - - - - - -
2018/19 Rocket de Laval AHL 2 0 1 1 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
USHL total 66 2 22nd 24 +12 59 4th 0 0 0 -2 0
AHL total 122 9 34 43 -17 46 - - - - - -
NHL overall 56 0 11 11 -1 16 - - - - - -

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 Sweden U20 World Cup Silver medal 7th 1 4th 5 +5 2
Juniors overall 7th 1 4th 5 +5 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 brother Fredrik Olofsson (* 1996) is also an ice hockey player and was selected in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in 98th position by the Chicago Blackhawks .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top 25 Under 25: Gustav Olofsson Moves on Up to Number 10. hockeywilderness.com, September 26, 2016, accessed on February 25, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Mike Doyle: Wild Inks Olofsson To Entry-Level Deal. nhl.com, March 24, 2014, accessed February 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Michael Russo: Wild's Olofsson sharp on the blue line in exhibition win over Winnipeg. startribune.com, September 23, 2015, accessed February 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Olofsson, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Borås , Sweden