Joel Eriksson Ek

Sweden Joel Eriksson Ek

Date of birth	January 29, 1997
place of birth	Karlstad , Sweden
size	188 cm
Weight	90 kg

position	center
number	# 14
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 1st round, 20th position Minnesota Wild
KHL Junior Draft	2016 , 4th round, 95th position HK Sibir Novosibirsk

Career stations

2011-2017	Färjestad BK
since 2016	Minnesota Wild

Joel Eriksson Ek (born January 29, 1997 in Karlstad ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League since July 2015 . With the Swedish national team who won Center at the World Cup in 2017 the gold medal.

Career

Joel Eriksson Ek was born into an ice hockey family in Karlstad, so his father Clas Eriksson has spent almost his entire career as a player and coach at Färjestad BK from his hometown. In this respect, Joel Eriksson Ek - just like his younger brother Olle (* 1999) after him - also went through the Färjestad BK's junior departments in his youth. For his U20 he made his debut in the 2013/14 season in the J20 SuperElit , Sweden's highest junior league, before scoring 32 points in 25 games the following year . With these achievements, the center forward recommended himself not only for the men's selection of his home club, for which he subsequently came to 34 games in the Svenska Hockey League , but also for the scouts of the National Hockey League (NHL), who put him in the draft Ranking lists unanimously acted as a first-round pick. In the actual NHL Entry Draft 2015 , the Swede was selected in 20th position by the Minnesota Wild and given an entry contract in July 2015 .

For the time being, however, Eriksson Ek returned to Färjestad BK on loan and spent the 2015/16 season there, in which the attacker scored nine goals and six assists in 41 games. Subsequently, he was also considered in the KHL Junior Draft 2016 and was selected in 95th position by HK Sibir Novosibirsk . In summer 2016, the attacker finally joined the organization of the Wild and made his debut in the NHL in October 2016, where he scored his first goal in the top division of North America. After nine missions and five scorer points, the Wild handed him over to his hometown club Färjestad BK for the rest of the season in November 2016 in order to allow him to continue playing. After the end of the season in Sweden, the attacker returned to the wild and came in the regular season and playoffs on another 9 NHL appearances.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, the Swede established himself in the Wild's NHL squad and from then on he was only used sporadically in the AHL.

International

In 2014 he took part in major tournaments with Sweden's youth national teams for the first time when he represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge and the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament . He was also part of the Tre Kronor at the U18 World Championship in 2015 , the U20 World Championship in 2016 and the U20 World Championship in 2017 , but missed the medal ranks with the team.

During the 2016/17 season Eriksson Ek made his debut for Sweden's senior team on the Euro Hockey Tour and was also part of their squad at the 2017 World Cup , where he won the gold medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2017 gold medal at the world championship

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	Färjestad BK J20	J20 SuperElit	13	2	2	4th	+1	4th	4th	1	1	2	± 0	2
2014/15	Färjestad BK J20	J20 SuperElit	25th	21st	11	32	+13	20th	6th	5	5	10	+4	6th
2014/15	Färjestad BK	SHL	34	4th	2	6th	± 0	4th	3	0	0	0	± 0	2
2015/16	Färjestad BK	SHL	41	9	6th	15th	+7	18th	4th	1	0	1	-3	2
2016/17	Färjestad BK	SHL	26th	8th	8th	16	+4	12	7th	3	3	6th	-2	0
2016/17	Iowa Wild	AHL	1	1	0	1	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL	15th	3	4th	7th	+1	4th	3	0	0	0	± 0	0
2017/18	Iowa Wild	AHL	8th	3	5	8th	-1	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL	75	6th	10	16	+2	22nd	5	0	1	1	± 0	0
2018/19	Iowa Wild	AHL	9	4th	5	9	-3	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL	58	7th	7th	14th	–7	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL	62	8th	21st	29	+7	22nd	4th	1	0	1	+1	2
J20 SuperElit overall			38	23	13	36	+14	24	10	6th	6th	12	+4	8th
SHL total			101	21st	16	37	+11	34	14th	4th	3	7th	-5	4th
AHL total			18th	8th	10	18th	-5	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			210	24	42	66	+3	68	12	1	1	2	+1	2

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Sweden	WHC	6th place	5	1	0	1		0
2014	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial	4th Place	5	3	1	4th	+2	0
2015	Sweden	U18 World Cup	8th place	5	5	1	6th	-4	2
2016	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	6th	1	1	2	+2	2
2017	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	6th	3	9	+8	4th
2017	Sweden	WM		10	1	2	3	+5	4th
Juniors overall				28	16	6th	22nd		8th
Men overall				10	1	2	3	+5	4th

( 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 Minnesota Wild website
Joel Eriksson Ek at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Wild Signs Joel Eriksson Ek. nhl.com, July 13, 2015, accessed October 23, 2016 .

Squad of the Minnesota Wild in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Eriksson Ek, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	January 29, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlstad , Sweden

[1] Wild Signs Joel Eriksson Ek. nhl.com, July 13, 2015, accessed October 23, 2016 .