Johan Franzén

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Johan Franzén
Date of birth 23rd December 1979
place of birth Vetlanda , Sweden
Nickname Mule, Franzenstein
size 191 cm
Weight 100 kg
position center
number # 93
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2004 , 3rd round, 97th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1994-1999 Boro / Vetlanda HC
1999-2000 Tranås AIF
2000-2005 Linköpings HC
2005-2015 Detroit Red Wings

Johan Franzén (born December 23, 1979 in Vetlanda ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who played 709 games for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League on the position of the center during his active career between 1994 and 2015 . He also spent a large part of the Linköpings HC in the Swedish Elitserien . With the Detroit Red Wings, Franzén won the Stanley Cup in 2008 . He was also world champion with the Swedish national team at the 2006 World Cup.

Career

Johan Franzén began his career in 1994 in fourth-class Division 2 in Sweden at Boro / Vetlanda HC , where he behaved rather inconspicuously for the first two years. In 1996 Boro / Vetlanda relegated to the fifth division, where Franzén was finally able to prove his scoring skills and scored 44 goals in the following two seasons and prepared 16 more. In the 1998/99 season he started with 23 goals in the first ten games, but he was suspended for the rest of the season when he rammed a referee.

In 1999 Franzén moved to the second-rate Allsvenskan , where he went on the ice for Tranås AIF and had a good season with 26 points in 37 games. He was able to build on this the following year when he moved within the league to Linköpings HC , with whom he was promoted directly to the Elitserien . In the first two seasons in the first class, Franzén could only achieve four goals and collected a total of only 14 scorer points. In addition, Linköpings had to go into the relegation round in 2003, but was able to secure relegation there.

In 2003/04 Franzén finally achieved his breakthrough in the Elitserien, when he scored 30 points in 49 league games and also won the plus / minus rating. Due to the good performance, he also attracted international attention and was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the third round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft at position 97.

He played another year in the Elitserien and then moved to the Detroit Red Wings in the summer of 2005, where he spent the entire 2005/06 season in the NHL and had 16 points in 80 games. After the season he became world champion with the Swedish national team .

In August 2006 Franzén received a new contract with Red Wings for three years and was able to improve in 2006/07 compared to the previous year and achieved 30 points scorer. In the playoffs, he moved into the limelight in the first round against the Calgary Flames when he scored the winning goal in the sixth game in the series and thus led the Red Wings into the next round. Detroit finally failed in the final of the Western Conference at the Anaheim Ducks .

Franzén (right) with Marc-André Fleury

During the 2007/08 season Franzén played mainly in defensive formations and was therefore rarely able to set accents in front of the goal for most of the season. It was not until March 2008 that he temporarily moved to the first line of attack due to injury-related failures and scored 14 goals in 13 games, so he was able to recommend himself as an adequate substitute for power play specialist Tomas Holmström , especially in the majority game . He ended the season with 27 goals as the Red Wings' third top scorer.

He was also able to continue his good performance in the playoffs and was initially the Red Wings' best striker with eleven goals in the first ten games, including nine goals in the four-game second-round series against the Colorado Avalanche , setting a new NHL record put up. He was also the first player since the Finn Jari Kurri in 1985 to achieve two hat-tricks in a series. After he had contributed a goal in the first game of the conference final against the Dallas Stars , however, he was sidelined for six games due to symptoms of a concussion. Franzén eventually returned in the final series against the Pittsburgh Penguins and helped win the Stanley Cup . At the end of the playoffs he and his teammate and compatriot Henrik Zetterberg were the top scorer with 13 goals each.

In the 2010/11 season Franzén succeeded on February 2, 2011 in the Red Wings 7-5 victory over the Ottawa Senators , as the first player since Marián Gáborík on December 20, 2007 to score five goals in one game.

Due to multiple concussions , Franzén played his last competitive game in October 2015 and has been out of the game ( chronic traumatic encephalopathy ) as a result. It is considered unlikely that the Swede will ever return to professional sport. His contract in Detroit is valid until the end of the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Boro / Vetlanda HC Division 2 5 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
1995/96 Boro / Vetlanda HC Division 2 32 4th 4th 8th 10 - - - - -
1996/97 Boro / Vetlanda HC Division 3 28 14th 4th 18th 22nd - - - - -
1996/97 HV71 J20 SuperElit 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1997/98 Boro / Vetlanda HC Division 3 26th 30th 12 42 18th - - - - -
1998/99 Boro / Vetlanda HC Division 3 10 23 2 25th 37 - - - - -
1999/00 Tranås AIF Allsvenskan 37 11 15th 26th 22nd - - - - -
2000/01 Linköpings HC Allsvenskan 41 12 20th 32 36 10 3 3 6th 0
2001/02 Linköpings HC Elitserien 36 2 6th 8th 64 - - - - -
2002/03 Linköpings HC Elitserien 37 2 4th 6th 14th 10 1 4th 5 4th
2003/04 Linköpings HC Elitserien 49 12 18th 30th 26th 5 0 1 1 8th
2004/05 Linköpings HC Elitserien 43 7th 7th 14th 45 6th 2 0 2 16
2005/06 Detroit Red Wings NHL 80 12 4th 16 36 6th 1 2 3 4th
2006/07 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 10 20th 30th 37 18th 3 4th 7th 10
2007/08 Detroit Red Wings NHL 72 27 11 38 51 16 13 5 18th 14th
2008/09 Detroit Red Wings NHL 71 34 25th 59 44 23 12 11 23 12
2009/10 Detroit Red Wings NHL 27 10 11 21st 22nd 12 6th 12 18th 16
2010/11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 76 28 27 55 58 8th 2 1 3 6th
2011/12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 77 29 27 56 40 5 1 0 1 8th
2012/13 Detroit Red Wings NHL 41 14th 17th 31 41 14th 4th 2 6th 8th
2013/14 Detroit Red Wings NHL 54 16 25th 41 40 5 0 2 2 2
2014/15 Detroit Red Wings NHL 33 7th 15th 22nd 30th - - - - -
2015/16 Detroit Red Wings NHL 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
Division 3 total 64 67 18th 85 77 0 0 0 0 0
Division 2 total 37 5 4th 9 12 0 0 0 0 0
Allsvenskan total 78 23 35 58 58 10 3 3 6th 0
Elitserien total 165 23 35 58 149 21st 3 4th 7th 28
NHL overall 602 187 183 370 401 107 42 39 81 80

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2005 Sweden WM 4th Place 5 1 0 1 0
2006 Sweden WM 1st place, gold 8th 0 3 3 12
2010 Sweden Olympia 5th place 4th 1 1 2 2
2012 Sweden WM 6th place 7th 4th 5 9 8th
Men overall 24 7th 10 17th 22nd

( 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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sports.yahoo.com, Johan Franzen scores 5 goal vs. Ottawa
personal data
SURNAME Franzén, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franzen, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd December 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Vetlanda , Sweden