Johan Harju

Johan Harju
Johan Harju (2013)
Date of birth	May 15, 1986
place of birth	Övertorneå , Sweden
size	191 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 6th round, 167th position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2004-2009	Luleå HF
2009-2010	HK Dynamo Moscow
2010-2011	Norfolk Admirals
2011–2012	Luleå HF
2012-2014	Brynäs IF
2014-2015	Jokerit Helsinki
since 2015	Luleå HF

Johan Harju (born May 15, 1986 in Övertorneå ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Luleå HF in the Svenska Hockeyligan again since January 2015 .

Career

Johan Harju began his career as a hockey player at Luleå HF , for which he was already active in the youth field. In the 2004/05 season , the attacker made his professional ice hockey debut when he was on the ice in four games for Luleå HF in the Elitserien , in which he remained unpunished. From the following season he played regularly for four years for the team that he left at the end of the 2008/09 season. For the 2009/10 season , the Swede signed a contract with HK Dynamo Moscow from the Continental Hockey League on April 8, 2009 , where his teammate Linus Omark also signed on the same day . For the 2010/11 season he moved to North America, where he received a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning , who had already selected him in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as a total of 167th player. During the season he was mainly used for their farm team Norfolk Admirals in the American Hockey League , while he scored a goal and prepared two goals for Tampa Bay in ten games in the National Hockey League .

For the 2011/12 season Harju returned to his hometown club Luleå HF in the Elitserien. He was then under contract with Brynäs IF between 2012 and 2014 , before signing a contract with the new Continental Hockey League participant Jokerit in April 2014 . In January 2015 he returned to Luleå HF.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2011 AHL All-Star Classic

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	1	10	1	2	3	2
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	1	63	23	30th	53	20th
AHL playoffs	1	6th	1	0	1	6th
KHL main round	1	55	4th	14th	18th	38
KHL playoffs	1	2	1	0	1	8th
Elitserien main round	8th	367	114	70	184	175
Elitserien Playoffs	6th	27	9	3	12	26th

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)

Web links

• Johan Harju at eurohockey.com
• Johan Harju at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harju återvänder till Luleå. In: aftonbladet .se. January 26, 2015, accessed October 6, 2015 (Swedish).