Joel Lundqvist

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Joel Lundqvist
Date of birth March 2, 1982
place of birth Are , Sweden
size 185 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 39
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2000 , 3rd round, 68th position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
until 1998 Rögle BK
1998-2006 Frölunda HC
2006-2009 Dallas Stars
since 2009 Frölunda HC

Joel Lundqvist (born March 2, 1982 in Åre ) is a Swedish ice hockey center that has been playing at Frölunda HC in the Svenska Hockeyligan since 2009 . Joel's twin brother Henrik plays in the NHL and has been the goalkeeper of the New York Rangers since 2005 .

Career

Joel Lundqvist began his career in 1997 with the Rögle BK juniors . The following year he moved to Frölunda HC in Gothenburg. There he went through all youth departments and showed good qualities as a scorer. In the 2000 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Dallas Stars in the third round at position 68. In the same year he won the bronze medal with the Swedish junior national team at the U18 World Cup .

In the 2000/01 season Lundqvist came to his first appearances with the professionals of Frölunda in the Elitserien . From the 2001/02 season he was part of the team's regular squad. There he developed into a solid scorer and also a player who is not afraid of the tough game. In 2002/03 he received 113 penalty minutes. In 2003 and 2005 he was able to celebrate the Swedish championship with the team.

In spring 2006 he became world champion with the Swedish national team and a little later received his first NHL contract with the Dallas Stars. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he was first sent to the Dallas farm team , the Iowa Stars in the AHL . There he was able to convince and was one of the best players on the team, so that he was appointed to the NHL squad for the first time in early December 2006 and played his first game against the San Jose Sharks on December 4 . In the course of the season he returned to the AHL a few times, but he was able to convince in the checking line of the Dallas Stars, so that his contract was extended by two years.

In 2009 he returned to Sweden and signed with Frölunda HC . In 2016 he won the Swedish championship and the Champions Hockey League (CHL) with the club . In 2017 the CHL title was defended and Lundqvist was named the best player of the CHL season 2016/17.

At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki he was part of the men's national team and won the gold medal with it; as well as in 2017 when he led the team as captain.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2017 Champions Hockey League win with Frölunda HC
  • 2017 Most Valuable Player of the Champions Hockey League
  • 2019 Champions Hockey League win with the Frölunda HC
  • 2019 Swedish champion with the Frölunda HC

International

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 134 7th 19th 26th 56
NHL playoffs 2 25th 4th 5 9 14th
AHL regular season 2 48 18th 26th 52 52
AHL playoffs 1 9 6th 4th 10 10

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

Commons : Joel Lundqvist  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Joel Lundqvist is NordicBet MVP! (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 7, 2017 ; accessed on February 7, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.championshockeyleague.net
Squad of the Frölunda HC in the 2018/19 season
personal data
SURNAME Lundqvist, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Are , Sweden