Lucas Wallmark

Sweden Lucas Wallmark


Date of birth	5th September 1995
place of birth	Umeå , Sweden
size	183 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	center
number	# 71
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 4th round, 97th position Carolina Hurricanes
KHL Junior Draft	2016 , 2nd round, 60th position HK CSKA Moscow

Career stations

2010-2013	Skellefteå AIK
2013-2016	Luleå HF
2016-2018	Charlotte Checkers
2017-2020	Carolina Hurricanes
since 2020	Florida panthers

Alexander Lucas Wallmark (born September 5, 1995 in Umeå ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League since February 2020 . Previously, the center spent approximately four years organizing the Carolina Hurricanes .

Career

Lucas Wallmark played in his youth for the youth departments of IF Björklöven , before he switched to Skellefteå AIK in 2010 and played for their U20s in the J20 SuperElit , the highest junior league in Sweden, at the beginning of the 2011/12 season. The following year he made his debut for the men's selection in the Elitserien , the highest professional league in the country, while he was also used on loan from Karlskrona HK in the second-class Allsvenskan . He then moved to Luleå HF in the now renamed Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL) and subsequently established himself in their professional squad. In Luleå, the center forward increased his personal statistics from year to year, while he won the Champions Hockey League with the team in the 2014/15 season . At the same time, he was already considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in 97th position by the Carolina Hurricanes , as well as two years later in the KHL Junior Draft 2016 in 60th position by HK CSKA Moscow .

After Wallmark had already signed an entry-level contract with the Hurricanes in June 2015 , he moved permanently to North America for the 2016/17 season and was initially employed there with Carolina's farm team , the Charlotte Checkers from the American Hockey League (AHL). There the Swede convinced with a constant offensive production, so that he made his debut for the Hurricanes in the National Hockey League (NHL) in March 2017 . This was followed by a further eight appearances in the same year and eleven games in the following season 2017/18, before he was able to earn a regular place in the NHL squad as part of the preparation for the 2018/19 season.

After almost four years in the organization of the Hurricanes, Wallmark was handed over to the Florida Panthers for the trade deadline in February 2020 together with Erik Haula , Eetu Luostarinen and Chase Priskie . In return, Vincent Trocheck moved to Carolina.

International

Wallmark gained his first international experience at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2011 , where he won the silver medal with the Swedish U17 team and the bronze medal the following year . He then took part in the U18 World Cup in 2013 as well as in the U20 World Cup in 2014 and 2015 , where he won the silver medal with the Swedish U20 selection in 2014. The attacker also made his debut for the Swedish national team as part of the Euro Hockey Tour of the 2015/16 season.

Achievements and Awards

2015 Champions Hockey League win with Luleå HF

International

2011 silver medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2012 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2014 silver medal at the U20 World Cup

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
2011/12	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit	37	11	26th	37	+16	14th	3	1	2	3	± 0	4th
2012/13	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit	14th	5	11	16	+5	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Karlskrona HK	Allsvenskan	16	5	5	10	–6	4th	7th	0	5	5	+2	2
2012/13	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien	2	0	0	0	± 0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Asplöven HC	Allsvenskan	11	1	7th	8th	+4	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Luleå HF	SHL	41	3	7th	10	-4	2	1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2014/15	Luleå HF	SHL	50	5	13	18th	-8th	14th	9	0	5	5	± 0	2
2015/16	Luleå HF	SHL	48	8th	24	32	+5	20th	11	7th	2	9	+1	4th
2016/17	Charlotte Checkers	AHL	67	24	22nd	46	+13	28	5	3	3	6th	+2	2
2016/17	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	8th	0	2	2	+1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Charlotte Checkers	AHL	45	17th	38	55	+15	16	8th	3	2	5	-1	4th
2017/18	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	11	1	0	1	-4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	81	10	18th	28	−8	36	15th	1	4th	5	± 0	6th
2019/20	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL	60	11	12	23	± 0	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Florida panthers	NHL	7th	1	1	2	± 0	0	2	0	0	0	-1	2
J20 SuperElit			51	16	37	53	+21	32	3	1	2	3	± 0	4th
Allsvenskan total			27	6th	12	18th	-2	10	7th	0	5	5	+2	2
AHL total			112	41	60	101	+28	44	13	6th	5	11	+1	6th
NHL overall			167	23	33	56	–11	58	17th	1	4th	5	-1	8th

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial		5	0	1	1		0
2012	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial		5	4th	3	7th		2
2013	Sweden	U18 World Cup	5th place	5	2	3	5	± 0	2
2014	Sweden	U20 World Cup		7th	3	5	8th	+5	2
2015	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	4th	2	6th	+3	8th
Juniors overall				29	13	14th	27		14th

( 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 : Lucas Wallmark - collection of images, videos and audio files

Player biography on the Florida Panthers website
Lucas Wallmark at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Terrell Williams: Canes Sign Forward Lucas Wallmark. nhl.com, June 11, 2015, accessed October 10, 2018 .

Squad of the Florida Panthers in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Wallmark, Lucas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wallmark, Alexander Lucas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	5th September 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH	Umeå , Sweden

[1] Terrell Williams: Canes Sign Forward Lucas Wallmark. nhl.com, June 11, 2015, accessed October 10, 2018 .