Henrik Borgström

Henrik Borgström
Date of birth	August 6, 1997
place of birth	Helsinki , Finland
size	191 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 23rd position Florida Panthers
KHL Junior Draft	2016 , 2nd round, 50th position Salawat Julajew Ufa
Career stations
until 2013	Jokerite
2013-2016	Helsingfors IFK
2016-2018	University of Denver
since 2018	Florida Panthers Springfield Thunderbirds

Kurt Henrik Mikael Borgström (* 6. August 1997 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who since March 2018 when the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team, the Springfield Thunderbirds , in the American Hockey League for Use comes.

Career

In his youth, Henrik Borgström worked in the youth department of the Jokerit from his hometown Helsinki. Within the city, he moved to Helsingfors IFK for the 2013/14 season , for whose U18 team he ran from then on in the Jr. B SM-sarja . At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he was accepted into the U20 of the club and came in the Jr. A SM-liiga , the highest junior league in Finland, to 55 points in 40 games, making the center forward as one of the most promising European talents for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2016 was traded. In the actual draft, the Florida Panthers then considered him in 23rd position, as did Salawat Julajew Ufa in the KHL Junior Draft 2016 in 50th position.

Borgström then moved to the University of Denver , also in order to get used to North American ice hockey at an early stage, and from then on was there for the Pioneers in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As a result, the Finn spent two extremely successful years in Denver, so he and his team won the NCAA championship as the best college team in the entire United States in their first year, while he was personally named NCHC Rookie of the Year and entered the NCHC Second All-Star Team and the NCHC All-Rookie Team . As a sophomore, he increased his stats to 52 points from 40 games, so that he was named NCHC Player and Striker of the Year and was included in the NCHC First All-Star Team , while he won the NCHC Championship with the Pioneers . In addition, the attacker was nominated as one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which honors the best college player in the country; this was won by Adam Gaudette .

After the end of the 2017/18 college season, Borgström signed an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers in March 2018 and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a few days later .

International

Borgström gained his first international experience with the U20 national team of Finland at the U20 World Cup in 2017 , in which the team, however, was relegated and only finished ninth.

Achievements and Awards

2017 NCAA championship with the University of Denver 2017 NCHC Rookie of the Year 2017 NCHC Second All-Star Team 2017 NCHC All-Rookie Team

2018 NCHC Championship with the University of Denver 2018 NCHC Player and Striker of the Year 2018 NCHC First All-Star Team 2018 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award

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	Helsingfors IFK U18	Jr. B SM-sarja		30th	8th	12	20th		6th		5	1	0	1		0
2014/15	Helsingfors IFK U18	Jr. B SM-sarja		21st	12	25th	37		4th		12	7th	8th	15th		2
2015/16	Helsingfors IFK U20	Jr. A SM liiga		40	29	26th	55	+23	20th		4th	4th	2	6th	-3	0
2016/17	University of Denver	NCAA		37	22nd	21st	43	+23	16
2017/18	University of Denver	NCAA		40	23	29	52	+13	18th
2017/18	Florida panthers	NHL		4th	1	0	1	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		24	5	17th	22nd	+4	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Florida panthers	NHL		50	8th	10	18th	-14	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Springfield Thunderbirds	AHL		49	11	12	23	+2	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL		4th	0	0	0	-2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
Jr. B SM-Sarja overall				51	20th	37	57		10		17th	8th	8th	16		2
NCAA overall				77	45	50	95	+36	34
AHL total				73	16	29	45	+6	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				58	9	10	19th	-17	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Finland at:

• U20 World Cup 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2017	Finland	U20 World Cup	9th place		6th	0	0	0	-1	2
Juniors overall					6th	0	0	0	-1	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 )

Web links

• Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
• Henrik Borgström at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Panthers Agree to Terms with Henrik Borgström on 3-Year, Entry-Level Deal. nhl.com, March 26, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2018 .