Joel Kellman

Joel Kellman
Date of birth	May 25, 1994
place of birth	Karlskrona , Sweden
size	180 cm
Weight	87 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2010	Karlskrona HK
2010-2013	Malmo Redhawks
2013-2014	HV71
2014-2018	Karlskrona HK
2018-2019	Brynäs IF
since 2019	San Jose Sharks San Jose Barracuda

Joel Kellman (born May 25, 1994 in Karlskrona ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL) since April 2019 and for their farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League (AHL) plays on the position of the center .

Career

Kellman learned to play ice hockey in the offspring of the club in his hometown, Karlskrona HK . The trained striker played there in the junior division until the summer of 2010, before the then 16-year-old moved to the Malmö Redhawks' squad . In the following three years Kellman played there in the U18 and U20 team of the club, including in the J20 SuperElit . In the 2012/13 season he led the U20 team as team captain and also made his debut for the professional team in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan . The attacker also came on loan at Borås HC in third-class Division 1 , in which he also scored his first goal in a men's team. For the 2013/14 season he then moved to HV71 in Jönköping , where he was also active in the U20 and won the Swedish U20 championship with the team. He also made his debut for Jönköping in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL).

After Kellman had already spent a large part of the 2013/14 season at his home club in Karlskrona in HockeyAllsvenskan through a loan deal, he moved back to his hometown for the 2014/15 season . As the team's top scorer in the main round, he led the team into qualification for the Svenska Hockeyligan, where he made a decisive contribution to Karlskrona's promotion to the SHL with four goals in as many games. With the center forward in the squad, Karlskrona spent the following three seasons in the Swedish elite league. After relegation at the end of the 2017/18 season , Kellman left the club and moved to Brynäs IF within the SHL . With 34 scorer points in 45 games, he confirmed the previous season's point scoring at his new club, but needed six fewer games, whereupon he received an offer from the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL) in April 2019 .

The Swede then moved to North America for the 2019/20 season . In the San Joses franchise , Kellman started the season with the San Jose Barracuda farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL). After 25 missions there with 16 scorer points, he was finally appointed to the Sharks NHL squad in December 2019.

International

Kellman never appeared in the Swedish junior national teams. The striker only made his debut in the shirt of the Swedish national team in December 2018 . In the course of the 2018/19 season, he also played on the Euro Hockey Tour .

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Swedish U20 junior champion with the HV71
• 2015 Promotion to the Svenska Hockeyligan with the Karlskrona HK

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
2010/11	Malmo Redhawks J20	J20 SuperElit		10	4th	1	5	2		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Malmo Redhawks J20	J20 SuperElit		47	20th	15th	35	18th		5	0	0	0	0
2012/13	Malmo Redhawks J20	J20 SuperElit		43	19th	30th	49	20th		3	1	0	1	6th
2012/13	Malmo Redhawks	Allsvenskan		12	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Borås HC	Division 1		1	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HV71 J20	J20 SuperElit		31	10	10	20th	14th		6th	0	5	5	2
2013/14	HV71	SHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Karlskrona HK	Allsvenskan		18th	4th	4th	8th	6th		6th	1	1	2	0
2014/15	Karlskrona HK	Allsvenskan		49	17th	22nd	39	26th		4th	4th	0	4th	2
2015/16	Karlskrona HK	SHL		47	3	13	16	22nd		5 1	0	3	3	0
2016/17	Karlskrona HK	SHL		52	15th	15th	30th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Karlskrona HK	SHL		51	15th	19th	34	30th		5 1	1	1	2	0
2018/19	Brynäs IF	SHL		45	16	18th	34	16		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		25th	4th	12	16	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		31	3	4th	7th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				131	53	56	109	54		14th	1	5	6th	8th
HockeyAllsvenskan total				79	21st	27	48	36		10	5	1	6th	2
Svenska hockey player overall				196	49	65	114	88		10	1	4th	5	0
NHL overall				31	3	4th	7th	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 San Jose Sharks website
• Joel Kellman at eliteprospects.com (English)