Patrik Hersley

Sweden Patrik Hersley


Date of birth	June 23, 1986
place of birth	Malmo , Sweden
size	191 cm
Weight	95 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Right

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2005 , 5th round, 139th position Los Angeles Kings

Career stations

until 2007	Malmo Redhawks
2007-2008	Manchester Monarchs Reading Royals
2008-2009	Philadelphia Phantoms Reading Royals
2009-2011	Malmo Redhawks
2011	MODO hockey
2011-2014	Leksands IF
2014-2015	HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2015-2016	Yaroslavl locomotive
2016-2019	SKA Saint Petersburg
since 2019	HK Spartak Moscow

Patrik Hersley (born June 23, 1986 in Malmö ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Spartak Moscow in the Continental Hockey League since June 2019 .

Career

Sweden (2001-2007)

Hersley went through at the beginning of his career from 2001 through the youth department of the Malmö Redhawks , before he made his debut for the professional team in the Elitserien and with the team at the end of the season in the HockeyAllsvenskan in the 2004/05 season. In the following year he played a total of 34 games in Sweden's second-highest division and helped his team with 13 scorer points in their return to the Elitserien.

North America (2007-2009)

After the defensive player was selected by the Los Angeles Kings from the National Hockey League in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft , he signed an entry contract with the Kings in the summer of 2007 and then moved to North America. There he was transferred to the squad of the farm team Manchester Monarchs from the American Hockey League for the 2007/08 season and even played 20 games for the Reading Royals in the lower-class East Coast Hockey League during the season . In the summer of 2008, the Swede was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Denis Gauthier and a draft pick , before he moved to the Nashville Predators in September 2008 as part of another swap . There, too, he could not recommend himself for the NHL squad and spent the 2008/09 season again in the AHL and ECHL.

Return to Europe (since 2009)

In June 2009 Hersley returned to the Malmö Redhawks in Sweden and was there in the 2009/10 season with 16 goals the most dangerous defender in the HockeyAllsvenskan. In April 2011, the right-handed player moved to the first division club MODO Hockey , but remained there in the first eleven games without scorer points and was then loaned to IF Sundsvall Hockey before he received a permanent contract with Leksands IF from HockeyAllsvenskan in November 2011 . In the following season , with 30 points from 52 main round games as well as three goals and three assists in ten relegation games, he played a major role in the promotion of his team to the Svenska Hockeyligan .

In the 2013/14 season , Hersley played the season with the highest points of his professional career to date and set a new record for the most goals by a defender within a season with 24 goals. As a result, he was awarded the Salming Trophy as the best defensive player in the league and was signed in June 2014 by the Russian club HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League . There was in the subsequent season to continue the offensive performance from the previous year with 16 goals and 17 templates and had nine points scorer in 12 games of the point-best defender in the play-offs. In the summer of 2015, Hersley moved within the league to Lokomotive Yaroslavl and completed 68 KHL games for Lokomotive. In October 2016, he was released from his current contract and moved to SKA Saint Petersburg a few days later . With the SKA, he won the Gagarin Cup in 2017 and with it the Russian championship . In addition, he was invited again to the KHL All-Star Game in 2018 and 2019, honored several times as KHL Defender of the Week and once (September 2017) as KHL Defender of the Month.

In June 2019, his contract with SKA expired and Hersley moved to HK Spartak Moscow .

Achievements and Awards

2013 Promotion to the Svenska Hockeyligan with Leksands IF
2014 Salming Trophy
2015 KHL All-Star Game
2017 Gagarin Cup win and Russian champion with SKA Saint Petersburg
2017 KHL Defender of the Month for September
2018 KHL All-Star Game
2019 KHL All-Star Game

Web links

Patrik Hersley at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ flyers.nhl.com Flyers Acquire Pair From LA
↑ shl.se Hersley's record defeated Örebro (Swedish) ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
↑ swehockey.se Patrik Hersley, Leksands IF, awarded the Salming Trophy of the 2013/14 season (Swedish)
↑ KLART: Patrik Hersley skriver ettårkontrakt med Spartak Moskva. In: hockeysverige.se. June 19, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 (Swedish).

Squad of HK Spartak Moscow in the 2020/21 season

personal data
SURNAME	Hersley, Patrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 23, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Malmo , Sweden

[1] yers.nhl.com Flyers Acquire Pair From LA

[2] shl.se Hersley's record defeated Örebro (Swedish) ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[3] swehockey.se Patrik Hersley, Leksands IF, awarded the Salming Trophy of the 2013/14 season (Swedish)

[hockeysv-190619-4] KLART: Patrik Hersley skriver ettårkontrakt med Spartak Moskva. In: hockeysverige.se. June 19, 2019, accessed June 24, 2019 (Swedish).