Johan Gustafsson

Johan Gustafsson
Date of birth	February 28, 1992
place of birth	Köping , Sweden
size	188 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 6th round, 159th position Minnesota Wild
KHL Junior Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 51st position Amur Khabarovsk
Career stations
until 2007	IFK Arboga
2007-2008	Köping HC
2008-2010	Färjestad BK
2010-2011	Västerås IK
2011-2013	Luleå HF
2013-2015	Iowa Wild
2015-2019	Frölunda HC
since 2019	Adler Mannheim

Johan Gustafsson (born February 28, 1992 in Köping ) is a Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper who has been under contract with Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League since May 2019 .

Career

Johan Gustafsson began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Köping HC. From there he moved to IFK Arboga , for whose professional team he made his debut in the HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division, in the 2006/07 season . The goalkeeper spent the following season at his hometown club Köping HC in the fourth-class division 2 . From 2008 to 2010 he was under contract with Färjestad BK , for which he played three games in the Elitserien , the highest Swedish division, in his second year . However , he spent most of the 2009/10 season on loan at Skåre BK from third-class Division 1 .

In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , Gustafsson was selected in the sixth round as the 159th player of the Minnesota Wild . First, however, he stayed in his Swedish homeland, where he was regularly in the goal of Västerås IK from HockeyAllsvenskan in the 2010/11 season . For the 2011/12 season , the Swede was committed by Luleå HF from the Elitserien. In May 2013 Gustafsson received an NHL entry contract from the Wild and was loaned to Luleå HF for the 2012/13 season. A year later he was brought to North America by the Wild and took part in the training camp of the franchise , but could not recommend himself for the NHL squad and was used exclusively for the farm team Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League in the subsequent 2013/14 season . The Swede also spent most of the following year in the AHL and at times even played in the lower-class East Coast Hockey League with the Alaska Aces .

In the summer of 2015 Gustafsson returned to Sweden and joined the Frölunda HC . For the 2019/20 season, the Swedish goalkeeper moved to Adler Mannheim in the German Ice Hockey League .

International

For Sweden , Gustafsson took part in the junior division at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2009 and 2010 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 2012 . At the U18 World Cup 2010 he and his team won the silver medal, and at the U20 World Cup 2012 the gold medal. In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad for the first time in 2012 at the Euro Hockey Tour .

At the 2013 World Cup in Stockholm and Helsinki , he was again part of the national team and won the gold medal with it, but remained without commitment himself.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 Champions Hockey League win with the Frölunda HC
• 2016 Swedish champion with the Frölunda HC
• 2017 Champions Hockey League win with Frölunda HC
• 2019 Champions Hockey League win with the Frölunda HC

International

• 2010 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
• 2012 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2013 gold medal at the world championship

Web links

• Johan Gustafsson at hockeydb.com (English)
• Johan Gustafsson at eurohockey.com
• Johan Gustafsson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wild.nhl.com, Wild Signs Gustafsson To Entry-Level Deal , May 31, 2012
2. ↑ Adler Mannheim apparently bring Swedish national goalkeeper Johan Gustafsson from SHL champion and CHL title holder Frölunda Göteborg. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .