Jesper Boqvist

Sweden Jesper Boqvist

Date of birth	October 30, 1998
place of birth	Falun , Sweden
size	182 cm
Weight	82 kg

position	center
number	# 90
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 2nd round, 36th position New Jersey Devils

Career stations

until 2014	Hedemora SK
2014-2019	Brynäs IF
since 2019	New Jersey Devils Binghamton Devils

Patric Jesper Boqvist (* thirtieth August 1998 in Falun ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who since June 2019 when the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team, the Binghamton Devils in the American Hockey League on the position of the center plays.

Career

Jesper Boqvist was born in Falun and grew up in Hedemora . There he began playing ice hockey at the local Hedemora SK before moving to the youth team at Brynäs IF for the 2014/15 season. For the team from Gävle he played for the first time in the J20 SuperElit , Sweden's highest-ranking junior league , in the same season . There the attacker recorded 58 points in 38 games in the following year and was only surpassed by Lias Andersson (59) in the league, while he was on the ice for the first time for the men's selection of Brynäs IF in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL). He spent the 2016/17 season in roughly equal parts in the SuperElit, with the A-team from Brynäs and on loan from Timrå IK from the second-class Allsvenskan . In the playoffs for the championship of 2017, he reached the final with Brynäs, but failed there with 3: 4 to HV71 . Then the Swede was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2017 in 36th position by the New Jersey Devils . In the further course he established himself in the SHL and was in the season 2018/19 with 35 points from 51 games, the second best scorer of his team after Ryan Gunderson (38).

The New Jersey Devils provided Boqvist with an entry-level contract in June 2019 before he earned a place in their line-up as part of the preparation for the 2019/20 season. As a result, he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the beginning of October 2019 , but is also on the ice with the farm team , the Binghamton Devils from the American Hockey League (AHL).

International

The Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 was the first international tournament that Boqvist played with the Swedish youth national teams. There the team won the silver medal, as well as at the following U18 World Cup in 2016 after a final defeat against Finland. He then took part with the U20 national team of his home country in the U20 World Cup 2018 , where the Tre Kronor won another silver medal after another defeat in the final. Finally, the attacker also made his debut for Sweden's senior team as part of the 2018/19 Euro Hockey Tour .

Achievements and Awards

2015 silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2016 silver medal at the U18 World Championship
2018 silver medal at the U20 World Cup

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
2014/15	Brynäs IF J20	J20 SuperElit	7th	1	1	2	-1	0	1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2015/16	Brynäs IF J20	J20 SuperElit	38	23	35	58	+23	8th	3	0	1	1	–6	0
2015/16	Brynäs IF	SHL	8th	0	1	1	+2	2	2	0	0	0	± 0	0
2016/17	Brynäs IF J20	J20 SuperElit	15th	10	5	15th	+7	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Timrå IK	Allsvenskan	19th	3	9	12	± 0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Brynäs IF	SHL	16	0	6th	6th	+6	2	10	1	0	1	+3	0
2017/18	Brynäs IF J20	J20 SuperElit	4th	0	5	5	+4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Brynäs IF	SHL	23	3	10	13	-1	2	8th	0	1	1	-3	4th
2018/19	Brynäs IF	SHL	51	13	22nd	35	+6	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Binghamton Devils	AHL	19th	8th	3	11	+4	12	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL	35	4th	0	4th	–11	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall			64	34	46	80	+33	16	4th	0	1	1	–6	0
SHL total			98	16	39	55	+13	20th	20th	1	1	2	± 0	4th
NHL overall			35	4th	0	4th	–11	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial	5	0	1	1	-2	4th
2016	Sweden	U18 World Cup	7th	2	1	3	-1	2
2018	Sweden	U20 World Cup	6th	1	0	1	+3	2
Juniors overall			18th	3	2	5	± 0	8th

( 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 younger brother Adam Boqvist (* 2000) is also an active ice hockey player and has also played in the NHL since the 2019/20 season.

Web links

Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
Jesper Boqvist at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Boqvist Agrees to Terms. nhl.com, June 10, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2020 .

Squad of the New Jersey Devils in the season 2020/21

personal data
SURNAME	Boqvist, Jesper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boqvist, Patric Jesper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH	Falun , Sweden

[1] Boqvist Agrees to Terms. nhl.com, June 10, 2019, accessed on January 21, 2020 .