Linus Omark

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SwedenSweden  Linus Omark Ice hockey player
Linus Omark
Date of birth 5th February 1987
place of birth Övertorneå , Sweden
size 175 cm
Weight 76 kg
position Left wing
number # 23
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 4th lap, 97th position
Edmonton Oilers
Career stations
until 2009 Luleå HF
2009-2010 HK Dynamo Moscow
2010–2012 Edmonton Oilers
Oklahoma City Barons
2012-2013 EV train
2013 Oklahoma City Barons
2013-2014 Buffalo Sabers
2014 Luleå HF
2014-2015 Jokerite
2015-2020 Salawat Yulayev Ufa
since 2020 Genève-Servette HC

Linus Karl Heimer Omark (born February 5, 1987 in Övertorneå ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Genève-Servette HC in the Swiss National League since June 2020 and plays there in the position of left winger .

Career

Omark, who was born and grew up in Övertorneå in northern Sweden , joined the top club Luleå HF as a teenager , one of the few clubs not based in the south of the country. There Omark played between 2003 and 2006 both with the U18 juniors in the second class Allsvenskan and the U20 juniors in the first class Elitserien . After he had mainly played in the U18 team in the 2003/04 season, he was already regularly used in the U20 team from 2004 - at the age of 17. During the 2005/06 season , the winger finally made his senior team debut in the Elitserien.

The striker was used in the 2005/06 season in 19 main round games and three playoff games in which he managed a goal preparation. He was able to increase this yield significantly in the 2006/07 game year when he scored 17 points scorer in 50 matches . His positive development resulted in him the Edmonton Oilers in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft selected in the fourth round at a total of 97 out. However, the Swede stayed in his homeland and increased his offensive yield in the following two seasons. After Omark had scored 32 points in the 2007/08 season and had almost doubled its previous year's production, he increased again in the 2008/09 season when he got 55 points in just 53 games. He was also able to contribute five more assists in five playoff games . With 55 points in the main round, he was the third best scorer in the league behind the Norwegian Per-Åge Skrøder and his compatriot Fredrik Bremberg . Since his contract with Luleå had expired at the end of the season, the Edmonton Oilers tried hard to commit their draft election from 2007. Omark, however, opted for a two-year contract worth 2.6 million US dollars with the traditional Russian club HK Dynamo Moscow . His team-mate Johan Harju signed there on the same day . However, the contract had a release clause that made it possible for Omark to switch to a corresponding offer from the Oilers from the National Hockey League after the first year, which happened in the summer of 2010. He played his first game for the Oilers on December 10, 2010 against Tampa Bay and scored the highly regarded winner in the decisive shootout. Over the entire season he finally prevailed in the NHL, scoring five goals and 22 assists in a total of 51 games for Edmonton.

After Omark was deported to the Oklahoma City Barons in the American Hockey League during the 2011/12 season , he signed a one-year contract with EV Zug from the Swiss National League A in August 2012 . There he quickly became a star of the league and ended the 2012/13 season as the top scorer with 69 points. Omark was particularly effective in interaction with Damien Brunner . For the 2013-14 season he returned to the Edmonton Oilers, but played only one NHL game before he was again ordered to the Oklahoma City Barons. There he was the team's top scorer with 29 points after 28 games.

On December 19, 2013, Omark was given to the Buffalo Sabers for a six- round vote in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft . But even with the Sabers he could not prevail. When he refused to play for Rochester Americans in February 2014 , he was fired from his contract and returned to his home club. He played 11 games for Luleå HF until the end of the season before he was signed by KHL newcomer Jokerit . For Jokerit he came to 55 points scorer in 70 KHL games.

After a year at Jokerit, he moved to Salawat Julajew Ufa within the KHL in May 2015 . At Salawat he was top scorer and service provider in the following years, took part in the KHL All-Star Game several times and was twice named Player of the Week by the KHL . In June 2020, the now 33-year-old winger was signed by Genève-Servette HC for two years. Omark is considered one of the best scorers outside of the NHL.

International

At the international level, Omark represented his home country Sweden for the first time at the 2007 Junior World Cup in his own country. After defeats in the semi-finals and in the game for third place, he finished fourth with the team and thus remained without a medal. However, alongside Nicklas Bäckström and Niklas Hjalmarsson, the coaches named him one of the three best Swedish players of the tournament.

In the senior category, the winger was appointed to the Tre Kronor squad for the 2009 World Cup in Switzerland . As part of the preparatory games for the tournament, Omark caused a worldwide sensation in the ice hockey scene at the end of March when he scored the decisive goal in the penalty shoot-out with a lob over goalkeeper Marco Bührer in a game against host Switzerland . The striker was also able to excel in the world title fights with five assists in the first group game. In the end, he won the bronze medal with the team and was the second best point collector of his team with ten points.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2013 NLA Media All-Star Team
  • 2014 Spengler Cup All-Star-Team
  • 2016 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2016 Peter Forsberg Trophy
  • 2017 nomination for the KHL All-Star Game (no participation)
  • 2018 participation in the KHL All-Star Game
  • 2020 participation in the KHL All-Star Game

International

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
2003/04 Luleå HF J18 Allsvenskan 14th 14th 8th 22nd 18th 7th 3 4th 7th 0
2003/04 Luleå HF J20 SuperElit 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2004/05 Luleå HF J18 Allsvenskan 1 2 0 2 0 - - - - -
2004/05 Luleå HF J20 SuperElit 32 8th 9 17th 44 7th 4th 2 6th 2
2005/06 Luleå HF J20 SuperElit 32 22nd 21st 43 56 5 1 2 3 28
2005/06 Luleå HF Elitserien 19th 0 1 1 10 3 0 0 0 0
2006/07 Luleå HF Elitserien 50 8th 9 17th 32 4th 1 0 1 2
2007/08 Luleå HF Elitserien 55 11 21st 32 46 - - - - -
2008/09 Luleå HF Elitserien 53 23 32 55 66 5 0 5 5 4th
2009/10 HK Dynamo Moscow KHL 56 20th 16 36 34 4th 0 0 0 4th
2010/11 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 28 14th 17th 31 32 6th 1 2 3 4th
2010/11 Edmonton Oilers NHL 51 5 22nd 27 26th - - - - -
2011/12 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 18th 6th 10 16 8th - - - - -
2011/12 Edmonton Oilers NHL 14th 3 0 3 8th - - - - -
2012/13 EV train NLA 48 17th 52 69 40 12 2 4th 6th 12
2013/14 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 29 14th 15th 29 18th - - - - -
2013/14 Edmonton Oilers NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2013/14 Buffalo Sabers NHL 13 0 2 2 6th - - - - -
2013/14 Luleå HF SHL 5 1 3 4th 0 6th 2 3 5 0
2014/15 Jokerite KHL 60 16 30th 46 26th 10 3 6th 9 12
2015/16 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 60 18th 39 57 40 19th 5 11 16 20th
2016/17 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 55 14th 42 56 38 5 1 3 4th 2
2017/18 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 55 16 39 55 60 14th 4th 13 17th 33
2018/19 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 56 10 39 49 28 17th 4th 14th 18th 16
2019/20 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 59 12 42 54 36 6th 1 11 12 0
J18 Allsvenskan total 15th 16 8th 24 18th 7th 3 4th 7th 0
J20 SuperElit overall 65 30th 30th 60 100 12 5 4th 9 30th
Elitserien / Svenska hockey clothes overall 182 43 66 109 154 18th 3 8th 11 6th
KHL total 401 106 247 353 262 75 18th 58 76 87
AHL total 75 34 42 76 58 6th 1 2 3 4th
NHL overall 79 8th 24 32 40 - - - - -

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2007 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 2 3 5 4th
2009 Sweden WM 3rd place, bronze 9 2 8th 10 14th
2010 Sweden WM 3rd place, bronze 9 1 3 4th 8th
2016 Sweden WM 6th place 8th 0 6th 6th 2
2017 Sweden WM 1st place, gold 5 2 0 2 2
2018 Sweden Olympia 5th place 8th 0 6th 6th 2
Juniors overall 7th 2 3 5 4th
Men overall 39 5 23 28 28

( 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

Commons : Linus Omark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Omark signs deal to play with Moscow Dynamo , tsn.ca, August 4, 2009
  2. ↑ Winning hit by Linus Omark ( Memento from December 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Youtube December 10, 2010 (accessed on December 11, 2010)
  3. ↑ Player profile Linus Omark at nhl.com (accessed April 11, 2011)
  4. ↑ Kevin Snow: Sabers Acquire Omark From Oilers , Buffalo Sabers, December 19, 2013
  5. ↑ Linus Omark clear for ny KHL-klubb. In: aftonbladet .se. Retrieved May 2, 2015, October 6, 2015 (Swedish).
  6. ↑ sda / mir: News from the National League - Geneva catches Linus Omark. In: srf.ch. June 10, 2020, accessed June 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Three Best Players of Each Team Selected by Coach (PDF file; 9 kB), published by the IIHF on January 5, 2007
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personal data
SURNAME Omark, Linus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Omark, Linus Karl Heimer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Övertorneå , Sweden