Jimmie Ericsson

Jimmie Ericsson
Date of birth	February 22, 1980
place of birth	Skelleftea , Sweden
size	189 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 1999	Södertälje SK
1999-2002	HC Vita Hästen
2002-2005	Skellefteå AIK
2005-2006	Leksands IF
2006-2014	Skellefteå AIK
2014-2015	SKA Saint Petersburg
since 2015	Skellefteå AIK

Jimmie Ericsson (born February 22, 1980 in Skellefteå ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been playing for the Skellefteå AIK in the Svenska Hockeyligan on the position of the striker since June 2015 . His father Sven Eriksson was and his younger brother Jonathan Ericsson is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Ericsson, who comes from a family who loves ice hockey, played for HC Vita Hästen when he was a junior . He then ran for Södertälje SK until 1999 before returning to his junior club. In the meantime with the seniors, he went hunting for goals in the third division Division 1 until 2002 for the team.

Before the 2002/03 season, the striker returned to his hometown and played for Skellefteå AIK in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan . Despite three participation in the Kvalserien , the team did not succeed in advancing to the Elitserien . Then Ericsson left the club and played in the 2005/06 season for Leksands IF in the Elitserien. After Skellefteå had made it into the Swedish elite league on the fourth attempt in spring 2006, Ericsson returned. At the end of the 2010/11 season , the attacker , who has meanwhile been appointed assistant captain, celebrated the greatest success with the team since the Swedish championship title in 1978. In the playoffs, the northern Swedes won the runner-up. In 2013 and 2014, this success could be exceeded by winning the Swedish championship title.

After 8 seasons and 492 games in Sweden at Skellefteå AIK, Ericsson decided to move abroad and signed a one-year contract with SKA Saint Petersburg from the KHL on May 28, 2014 and won the Gagarin Cup with this in 2015 .

Before the 2015/16 season, Ericsson returned to Skellefteå AIK in Sweden.

International

Ericsson represented his home country at the 2010 World Cup in Germany , 2011 in Slovakia and 2013 in Sweden and Finland . In 2010 he won the bronze medal with the Swedes before winning the gold medal with the team in 2013. At the 2014 Olympics , he won the silver medal with the Swedish national team. At the world championship in the same year he again reached third place with the Tre Kronor .

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2011 Swedish runner-up with Skellefteå AIK
• 2011 silver medal at the world championship
• 2013 Swedish champion with Skellefteå AIK
• 2013 Guldpucken , Peter Forsberg Trophy
• 2013 gold medal at the world championship
• 2014 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 2014 Swedish champion with Skellefteå AIK
• 2014 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2015 Gagarin Cup win with SKA Saint Petersburg

Elitserien Statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	6th	282	50	74	124	301
Playoffs	4th	46	10	7th	17th	36
Kvalseries	5	49	14th	18th	32	77

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Jimmie Ericsson at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jimmie Ericsson at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ СКА подписал контракт с Джимми Эрикссоном. ska.ru, May 28, 2014, accessed on January 6, 2015 . 
2. ^ Jimmie Ericsson är tillbaka i Skellefteå AIK. In: expressen.se. June 17, 2015, accessed September 22, 2015 (Swedish).