Marcus Pettersson

Sweden Marcus Pettersson


Date of birth	May 8, 1996
place of birth	Skelleftea , Sweden
size	191 cm
Weight	80 kg

position	defender
number	# 28
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 2nd round, 38th position Anaheim Ducks

Career stations

until 2017	Skellefteå AIK
2017-2018	San Diego Gulls
2018	Anaheim Ducks
since 2018	Pittsburgh Penguins

Marcus Karl Gustav Pettersson (born May 8, 1996 in Skellefteå ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins from the National Hockey League since December 2018 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Marcus Pettersson was born in Skellefteå and in his youth went through the junior departments of the local Skellefteå AIK . He made his debut for the club's J20 during the 2012/13 season in the J20 SuperElit , the highest-ranking junior league in Sweden, before he was in the professional squad for the first time the following year and thus celebrated his debut in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL). After ten SHL missions, the defender was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2014 in 38th position by the Anaheim Ducks , but initially remained in his Swedish homeland. There he spent the 2014/15 season in the SuperElit, the SHL and on loan in the second-class Allsvenskan at HC Vita Hästen .

In June 2015, Pettersson signed an entry-level contract with the Anaheim Ducks, but returned to Skellefteå AIK on loan for another two seasons and established himself in their professional department. In the 2017/18 season, the Swede finally moved to North America and was initially employed by the Ducks farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL), the San Diego Gulls . After convincing performances there, he was appointed to Anaheim's squad for the first time in February 2018, so that he subsequently made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) and then established himself in the Ducks squad. Nevertheless, it was given to the Pittsburgh Penguins in early December 2018 in exchange for Daniel Sprong .

With the Penguins, Pettersson finally established himself in the NHL and therefore signed a new four-year contract in January 2020, which should bring him an average annual salary of around four million US dollars from the start of the 2020/21 season.

International

On an international level, Pettersson made his debut as part of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013 , where he won the gold medal with Sweden's U17 selection. He then represented his home country at the U18 World Cup in 2014 , with the defender taking fourth place with the Tre Kronor as well as two years later with the U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

2013 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2012/13	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit	37	4th	8th	12	+4	16	2	0	0	0	-1	0
2013/14	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit	38	4th	14th	18th	+4	38	2	0	0	0	± 0	2
2013/14	Skellefteå AIK	SHL	10	0	0	0	+2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit	20th	2	8th	10	-4	20th	1	0	0	0	-3	2
2014/15	HC Vita Hästen	Allsvenskan	10	2	2	4th	+5	16	9	1	2	3	-2	8th
2014/15	Skellefteå AIK	SHL	14th	0	0	0	-1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit	3	1	3	4th	+4	4th	2	0	0	0	-1	8th
2015/16	Skellefteå AIK	SHL	46	2	5	7th	+17	10	8th	0	0	0	-3	0
2016/17	Skellefteå AIK	SHL	41	2	7th	9	-3	49	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	San Diego Gulls	AHL	44	0	14th	14th	+7	22nd	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	22nd	1	3	4th	+5	6th	4th	0	0	0	-4	2
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	27	0	6th	6th	+4	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL	57	2	17th	19th	+13	49	4th	0	1	1	−1	4th
J20 SuperElit overall			98	11	33	44	+8	78	7th	0	0	0	-5	12
Svenska hockey player overall			111	4th	12	16	+15	61	8th	0	0	0	-3	0
NHL overall			106	3	26th	29	+22	72	8th	0	1	1	-5	6th

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013	Sweden	U17-WHC		6th	0	0	0		4th
2014	Sweden	U18 World Cup	4th Place	7th	1	0	1	+1	2
2016	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place	7th	0	4th	4th	± 0	6th
2019	Sweden	WM	5th place	8th	0	1	1	+4	4th
Juniors overall				20th	1	4th	5		12
Men overall				8th	0	1	1	+4	4th

( 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 )

Personal

His father Daniel Pettersson (* 1969) was also an ice hockey player and spent his entire professional career in Skellefteå.

Web links

Player biography on the Pittsburgh Penguins website
Marcus Pettersson at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Ducks Sign Defenseman Pettersson to Three-Year Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, June 14, 2015, accessed November 5, 2018 .

Squad of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Pettersson, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pettersson, Marcus Karl Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Skelleftea , Sweden

[1] Ducks Sign Defenseman Pettersson to Three-Year Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, June 14, 2015, accessed November 5, 2018 .