Marcus Soerensen

Marcus Soerensen
Date of birth	April 7, 1992
place of birth	Södertälje , Sweden
size	180 cm
Weight	76 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 20
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2010 , 4th round, 106th position Ottawa Senators
KHL Junior Draft	2015 , 2nd round, 41st position HK CSKA Moscow
Career stations
until 2010	Södertälje SK
2010-2011	Djurgårdens IF
2011	Skellefteå AIK
2011–2012	Borås HC
2012-2016	Djurgårdens IF
2016-2018	San Jose Barracuda
since 2017	San Jose Sharks

Marcus Tapio Sörensen (born April 7, 1992 in Södertälje ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League since May 2016 and plays for them in the position of right winger .

Career

Sörensen learned to play ice hockey in the youth department of IK Tälje , a club from his hometown Södertälje . Then he was active in the youth of the Elitserien club Södertälje SK until summer 2010 . For this he went through all teams up to the U20 selection, which was active in the J20 SuperElit , the highest Swedish league of this age group. Following the 2009/10 season, the 18-year-old was selected in the fourth round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in 106th place by the Ottawa Senators from the National Hockey League .

But instead of joining the Senators and moving to the North American continent, Sörensen signed a contract with the capital club Djurgårdens IF , for which he went on the ice in the 2010/11 season . The striker played for both the U20 team in the J20 SuperElit and the first team for which he made his professional debut in the Elitserien. After just one season, the paths between club and player parted again and the attacker switched to Skellefteå AIK in summer 2011 . He found it difficult to gain a foothold there. On the one hand, Sörensen was unable to improve qualitatively in the junior division, on the other hand, the competition in the squad of the ambitious Elitserien team was too great to guarantee him sufficient time. After eight appearances with the A-Juniors and one game for the men's team, the management loaned the winger to Borås HC from the second-class Allsvenskan , where he was able to gain experience in the senior division.

In terms of sport, the season in Borås was extremely disappointing, as the team managed to stay in the league at the last moment, but did not receive a license afterwards and had to make the way to the third division. Sörensen appeared in 29 games for the club and collected 17 scorer points , making him statistically one of the most effective offensive forces. After the season he left both Borås, as the loan deal ran out, and Skellefteå and returned to Djurgårdens IF. The club was relegated from the Elitserien in the preseason and joined the Allsvenskan in the 2012/13 season with the aim of returning directly to the top division. Although the team was supported in the course of the season by partially seasoned staff from the NHL affected by the lockout , the striker fought for a regular place and was among the five best scorers of the team with 23 scorer points in twice as many games. But the team missed the promotion. Djurgården only returned to the House of Lords at the end of the 2013/14 season . As the team-internal top scorer of the promotion round, Sörensen played a decisive role.

Back in the House of Lords, the striker improved his game again. As a rookie , he recorded 32 scorer points in 50 matches, making him the best point collector of his team and at the end of the season he was named Rookie of the Year for the Svenska Hockeyligan . After another positive 2015/16 season , in which he was able to increase his point record to 34, Sörensen left the club. The achievements of the now 24-year-old in the past three years had drawn the attention of the National Hockey League franchises to him again. Since the Ottawa Senators' transfer rights had already expired in the summer of 2012 - an agreement between the two parties had not been reached - the striker was able to negotiate freely with all teams as a free agent . Ultimately, the San Jose Sharks secured the service of the Swede initially for the following year and at the beginning of the season they put him in their farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League . After initial problems, Sörensen quickly acclimated himself and contributed 27 scorer points in 39 games for the Barracuda by the beginning of February 2017. He was then called up for the first time in the NHL squad San Joses and made his debut there. In the following season, the Swede commuted between the NHl and AHL squads of both teams before establishing himself with the San Jose Sharks at the beginning of the 2018/19 season . In January 2019, his expiring contract was prematurely extended by two years.

International

After Sörensen had only played a few test matches for the Swedish junior national teams in the U18 and U20 junior division, he made his debut for the Swedish men's national team as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2014/15 . He also completed other assignments as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2015/16 for the Tre Kronor .

Achievements and Awards

• 2014 Promotion to Svenska Hockeyligan with Djurgårdens IF
• 2015 Årets nykomling

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
2009/10	Södertälje SK J20	J20 SuperElit		27	7th	10	17th	54		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Djurgårdens IF J20	J20 SuperElit		31	14th	22nd	36	53		4th	3	0	3	2
2010/11	Djurgårdens IF	Elitserien		7th	1	1	2	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit		8th	2	3	5	57		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Borås HC	Allsvenskan		29	8th	9	17th	55		7th	2	0	2	8th
2012/13	Djurgårdens IF J20	J20 SuperElit		2	1	2	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Djurgårdens IF	Allsvenskan		46	10	13	23	38		6 1	4th	1	5	2
2013/14	Djurgårdens IF	Allsvenskan		43	13	17th	30th	34		10	4th	8th	12	4th
2014/15	Djurgårdens IF	SHL		50	17th	15th	32	30th		2	1	0	1	0
2015/16	Djurgårdens IF	SHL		47	15th	19th	34	34		8th	1	5	6th	14th
2016/17	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		43	17th	17th	34	23		10	0	1	1	10
2016/17	San Jose Sharks	NHL		19th	1	3	4th	4th		6th	1	1	2	0
2017/18	San Jose Barracuda	AHL		23	7th	11	18th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	San Jose Sharks	NHL		32	5	2	7th	5		10	4th	1	5	2
2018/19	San Jose Sharks	NHL		80	17th	13	30th	23		18th	0	5	5	2
2019/20	San Jose Sharks	NHL		66	7th	11	18th	26th		-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				68	24	37	61	164		4th	3	0	3	2
Allsvenskan total				118	31	39	70	127		23	10	9	19th	14th
Elitserien / Svenska hockey clothes overall				105	33	35	68	64		10	2	5	7th	14th
AHL total				66	24	28	52	37		10	0	1	1	10
NHL overall				197	30th	29	59	58		34	5	7th	12	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 )

Web links

• Player biography on the San Jose Sharks website
• Marcus Sörensen at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Marcus Sörensen at hockeydb.com (English)