Jesper Fast

Jesper Fast
Date of birth	2nd December 1991
place of birth	Nässjö , Sweden
Nickname	Quickie
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 19
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 6th round, 157th position New York Rangers
Career stations
2007-2013	HV71
2013-2014	Hartford Wolf Pack
since 2014	New York Rangers

Jesper Fast (formerly: Jesper Fasth ; born December 2, 1991 in Nässjö ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League since May 2012 . Previously, he spent most of his career at HV71 in the domestic Elitserien .

Career

HV71

Jesper Fast started playing ice hockey at Nässjö HC in his hometown . At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he moved to the youth department of HV71 from Jönköping, only 40 kilometers away . There he initially played for the U18s, but in his first season he made three appearances for the U20s in the J20 SuperElit . Fast spent the following season 2008/09, although still eligible to play for the U18, almost exclusively with the U20 and was runner-up with the team at the end of the season. He achieved a significant increase in performance the next year when he increased his points in 37 league games from 14 to 49. He drew attention at home and abroad, so that on the one hand he made his debut for HV71 in Sweden's top division, the Elitserien , and on the other hand was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2010 in 157th position by the New York Rangers .

With the beginning of the 2010/11 season, he made a permanent place in the professional team, for which he scored 16 points in 36 games. In addition, he took part with the Swedish U20 national team at the 2011 U20 World Youth Championship in the United States, where he achieved fourth place. A year before and a year after, he also represented Sweden on the Euro Hockey Tour .

New York Rangers

After another year in Sweden, Fast signed a three-year entry contract with the Rangers in May 2012 . However, they left him with HV71 for the regular season 2012/13, after which he was honored with the Rinkens Riddare for exemplary behavior and sporting spirit. As a result, he came to North America only in the spring of 2013 and completed a competitive game for the Rangers farm team , the Connecticut Whale , in the American Hockey League .

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Fast was in the NHL squad of the New York Rangers and completed eight competitive games before they gave him to the new farm team Hartford Wolf Pack . In Hartford, Fast got 34 points from 48 games, so that at the end of the season he was called back to the Rangers squad, had three appearances in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 2014 and posted his first scorer point there. As a result, he established himself as a regular scorer in the Rangers' NHL line-up and signed a new two-year contract in New York in the summer of 2015, which was followed by a three-season contract in July 2017.

Achievements and Awards

• 2013 Rinkens riddare

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
2007/08	HV71 U20	J20 SuperElit		3	0	0	0	± 0	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	HV71 U20	J20 SuperElit		37	7th	7th	14th	+12	16		7th	2	1	3	-2	6th
2009/10	HV71 U20	J20 SuperElit		37	23	26th	49	+16	10		3	0	2	2	± 0	0
2009/10	HV71	Elitserien		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	HV71 U20	J20 SuperElit		6th	3	7th	10	+8	4th		3	2	2	4th	+1	2
2010/11	HV71	Elitserien		36	7th	9	16	+6	6th		3	0	0	0	-3	0
2011/12	HV71	Elitserien		21st	5	11	16	+9	4th		5	2	1	3	± 0	3
2012/13	HV71	Elitserien		47	18th	17th	35	+13	4th		5	1	4th	5	± 0	4th
2012/13	Connecticut Whale	AHL		1	1	0	1	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		48	17th	17th	34	+14	30th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	New York Rangers	NHL		11	0	0	0	-5	2		3	0	1	1	± 0	0
2014/15	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		11	1	8th	9	-2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	New York Rangers	NHL		58	6th	8th	14th	-1	8th		19th	3	3	6th	+1	2
2015/16	New York Rangers	NHL		79	10	20th	30th	+9	18th		5	0	1	1	-2	0
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL		68	6th	15th	21st	+6	16		12	3	3	6th	+4	0
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL		71	13	20th	33	-10	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL		66	8th	12	20th	-3	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL		69	12	17th	29	+16	20th		1	0	0	0	-1	0
J20 SuperElit overall				83	33	40	73	+36	32		13	4th	5	9	-1	8th
Elitserien total				106	30th	37	67	+28	14th		13	3	5	8th	+4	0
AHL total				60	19th	25th	44	+11	34		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				422	55	92	147	+12	116		40	6th	8th	14th	+2	2

International

Represented Sweden at:

• U20 World Junior Championship 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place		6th	4th	2	6th	+4	0
Juniors overall					6th	4th	2	6th	+4	0

( 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 )

Surname

Jesper Fast's surname is actually “Fasth”, but his passport has always said “Fast”, whereupon he officially accepted the latter in 2012. This name change also gave him his nickname "Quickie", as fast and quick are synonymous in English and mean "fast".

Web links

• Player biography on the New York Rangers website
• Jesper Fast at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ newsday.com: "Rangers rookie Jesper Fast has made quick believer of coach Alain Vigneault" (English, October 3, 2013, accessed October 14, 2014)
2. ↑ nhl.com: "Rangers agree to terms with Fast" (English, May 29, 2012, accessed October 14, 2014)
3. ↑ jnytt.se: "Gentlemannen Jesper Fasth utsedd till Rinkens Riddare" ( Memento from January 4, 2015 on WebCite ) (Swedish, May 27, 2013, accessed October 14, 2014)
4. ↑ blueshirtsunited.com: "Rangers" Take A Look "At Jesper Fast" (English, April 2, 2013, archived at Rangers "Take A Look" At Jesper Fast ( memento from January 2, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on October 14, 2014)