Mathias Tjärnqvist

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SwedenSweden  Mathias Tjärnqvist Ice hockey player
Mathias Tjärnqvist
Date of birth April 15, 1979
place of birth Umeå , Sweden
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1999 , 3rd round, 96th position
Dallas Stars
Career stations
until 1999 Rögle BK
1999-2003 Djurgårdens IF
2003-2004 Dallas Stars
Utah Grizzlies
2004-2005 HV71
2005-2007 Dallas Stars
Iowa Stars
2007-2008 Phoenix Coyotes
2008-2009 Rögle BK
2009–2012 Djurgårdens IF
2012-2014 Rögle BK
2014-2015 Malmo Redhawks
2015-2016 JYP Jyväskylä
2016-2017 Malmo Redhawks

Mathias Erik Tjärnqvist (* 15. April 1979 in Umeå ) is a retired Swedish ice hockey player and current - functionary , who during his playing career from 1995 to 2017 among other 173 games for the Dallas Stars and Phoenix Coyotes in the National Hockey League of on Has contested the left winger's position , but was mainly active for Djurgårdens IF in the Elitserien . His older brother Daniel was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Tjärnqvist spent his youth at Rögle BK , for whose professional team the striker made his debut in the 1996/97 season at the age of 17 in the second-rate Division 1 . In the summer of 1999, he left the club after all, but switched within Sweden for first division club Djurgårdens IF in the capital, Stockholm, although in the same summer in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the third round at the 96th place of the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League selected had been. His older brother Daniel also played for Djurgården , with whom he celebrated winning the Swedish championship in the following two seasons .

After four successful years in Stockholm, the winger ventured into North America for the 2003/04 season , where he signed an annual contract with the Dallas Stars. He finally spent the game year mainly in the American Hockey League with the farm team Utah Grizzlies , but he also came to 18 NHL appearances for the stars. Also due to the lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season , Tjärnqvist returned to Sweden after only one year and ran for the HV71 from Jönköping to sign a contract with class rivals Linköpings HC after the end of the season . Since Dallas offered him a new contract, however, the commitment with Linköping was broken and the attacker moved again to the United States.

His second attempt to gain a foothold in Dallas was much more successful. Although the Swede spent part of the season in the Iowa Stars farm team , he managed to become part of the NHL regular squad in his second year. In February 2007 he was then transferred to the Phoenix Coyotes together with a first-round suffrage in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , who in return sent the Slovak striker Ladislav Nagy to Dallas. In Phoenix, he completed his last NHL season in the 2007/08 season, as he returned to his regular club Rögle BK in the summer of 2008, which had since been promoted to the Elitserien . A year later he signed another contract with his ex-club Djurgårdens IF. He remained loyal to this for three years and was once runner-up with the team. Then Tjärnqvist returned to Rögle. There he stayed even after relegation to HockeyAllsvenskan . For the 2014/15 season he moved within the league to the Malmö Redhawks , with whom the promotion to the elite class of Swedish ice hockey, renamed Svenska Hockeyligan , succeeded in the same year .

Although the success Tjärnqvist left the team and moved to neighboring Finland to JYP Jyväskylä in the Liiga . However, the offensive player only made eleven appearances for the first division and returned to Malmö at the end of January 2016. There he ended his active career after the 2016/17 season at the age of 38 and switched to the management of the club, where he took on the post of assistant general manager .

International

For his home country, Tjärnqvist stood in the junior division at the U18 European Junior Championship in 1997 and the U20 World Junior Championship in 1999 . He was able to complete the European Championship by winning the silver medal. The striker won the same medal in his two World Cup appearances in 2003 and 2004 .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1995/96 Rögle BK J20 SuperElit 4th 2 0 2 0 - - - - -
1996/97 Rögle BK J20 SuperElit 18th 5 8th 13 - - - - -
1996/97 Rögle BK Division 1 15th 1 4th 5 4th - - - - -
1997/98 Rögle BK Division 1 31 12 11 23 30th 4th 2 0 2 6th
1998/99 Rögle BK Division 1 34 18th 16 34 44 - - - - -
1999/00 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 50 12 12 24 20th 13 3 2 5 16
2000/01 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 47 11 8th 19th 53 16 1 2 3 6th
2001/02 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 6th 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 2
2002/03 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 38 11 13 24 30th 9 4th 1 5 12
2003/04 Utah grizzlies AHL 60 15th 13 28 51 - - - - -
2003/04 Dallas Stars NHL 18th 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
2004/05 HV71 Elitserien 46 8th 9 17th 18th - - - - -
2005/06 Iowa stars AHL 34 17th 12 29 28 1 0 0 0 0
2005/06 Dallas Stars NHL 33 2 4th 6th 18th - - - - -
2006/07 Iowa stars AHL 2 1 1 2 0 - - - - -
2006/07 Dallas Stars NHL 18th 1 3 4th 4th - - - - -
2006/07 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 26th 5 4th 9 2 - - - - -
2007/08 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 78 4th 7th 11 34 - - - - -
2008/09 Rögle BK Elitserien 40 11 10 21st 16 8 1 0 2 2 4th
2009/10 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 18th 2 2 4th 8th 16 1 2 3 8th
2010/11 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 43 17th 6th 23 18th 7th 2 2 4th 2
2011/12 Djurgårdens IF Elitserien 52 6th 7th 13 34 10 1 3 0 3 2
2012/13 Rögle BK Elitserien 54 10 8th 18th 30th 10 1 2 2 4th 2
2013/14 Rögle BK Allsvenskan 44 3 9 12 82 16 1 2 2 4th 8th
2014/15 Malmo Redhawks Allsvenskan 39 10 5 15th 8th 12 3 1 4th 8th
2015/16 JYP Jyväskylä Liiga 11 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2015/16 Malmo Redhawks SHL 15th 3 4th 7th 6th - - - - -
2016/17 Malmo Redhawks SHL 39 0 7th 7th 12 12 2 0 2 2
J20 SuperElit overall 22nd 7th 8th 15th - - - - -
Division 1 total 80 31 31 62 78 4th 2 0 2 6th
Allsvenskan total 83 13 14th 27 90 28 5 3 8th 16
Elitserien / Svenska hockey clothes overall 448 91 87 178 249 103 18th 13 31 56
AHL total 96 33 26th 59 79 1 0 0 0 0
NHL overall 173 13 19th 32 60 - - - - -

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1997 Sweden U18 European Championship 2nd place, silver 5 0 0 0 2
1999 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 6th 1 4th 5 4th
2003 Sweden WM 2nd place, silver 9 1 1 2 4th
2004 Sweden WM 2nd place, silver 9 0 0 0 4th
Juniors overall 11 1 4th 5 6th
Men overall 18th 1 1 2 8th

( 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 )

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SURNAME Tjärnqvist, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tjärnqvist, Mathias Erik (full name); Tjarnqvist, Mathias; Tjernqvist, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player and official
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Umeå , Sweden