Mattias Ekholm

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Mattias Ekholm
Date of birth May 24, 1990
place of birth Borlange , Sweden
size 192 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
number # 14
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2009 , 4th round, 102nd position
Nashville Predators
KHL Junior Draft 2010 , 5th round, 108th position
Salawat Julajew Ufa
Career stations
2007-2010 Mora IK
2010–2012 Brynäs IF
since 2012 Nashville Predators

Mattias Ekholm (born May 24, 1990 in Borlänge ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League since 2011 . With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2018 World Cup .

Career

Mattias Ekholm began his career as a hockey player at Mora IK , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Elitserien , the top Swedish division, in the 2007/08 season , but only came to a single use during the main round. In his rookie year he rose with the team in the Kvalserien in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan , in which he spent the following two years with Mora. For the 2010/11 season he was committed by the Elitserien participant Brynäs IF , where he was able to convince right away. Following his first full Elitserien season, the defender was named Elitserien Rookie of the Year .

In May 2011 Ekholm signed a contract with the Nashville Predators , who had already selected him in the fourth round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft as a 102nd player. For the Predators, however, he initially only completed two pointless games in the National Hockey League , while he spent the remainder of the 2011/12 season as a loaner at Brynäs IF in the Elitserien. With the team he became Swedish champions at the end of the season . He also received the Salming Trophy as the best Swedish defender outside of the NHL. For the 2012/13 season , the left shooter was added to the squad of Nashville's farm team Milwaukee Admirals from the American Hockey League . At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, the Swede established himself in the Predators' NHL line-up and signed a new six-year contract in Nashville in October 2015, which should bring him an average annual salary of 3.75 million US dollars. In 2017 he reached the Stanley Cup final with the team, but lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins there .

International

For Sweden Ekholm took part in the junior division of the U18 World Cup in 2008 and the U20 World Cup in 2010 . At the U20 World Cup in 2010, he and his team won the bronze medal. In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad for the Euro Hockey Tour in 2011 and 2012 , before he was in the squad for the World Cup from 2014 to 2016 and won the bronze medal with the team in 2014. Furthermore, he represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , where he achieved third place with the team. After a one-year break, he was back in the Swedish team for the 2018 World Cup and won the gold medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

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
2006/07 Mora IK J20 J20 SuperElit 36 0 4th 4th 28 2 0 0 0 0
2007/08 Mora IK J20 J20 SuperElit 37 5 7th 12 54 - - - - - -
2007/08 Mora IK Elitserien 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 +1 2
2008/09 Mora IK J20 J20 SuperElit 21st 3 5 8th 32 - - - - - -
2008/09 Mora IK Allsvenskan 38 2 11 13 +7 12 3 0 0 0 +1 4th
2009/10 Mora IK Allsvenskan 41 1 21st 22nd +10 54 2 0 0 0 ± 0 6th
2010/11 Brynäs IF Elitserien 55 10 23 33 +10 38 5 0 4th 4th -3 10
2011/12 Brynäs IF Elitserien 41 9 8th 17th +1 55 17th 1 8th 9 +6 12
2011/12 Nashville Predators NHL 2 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2012/13 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 59 10 22nd 32 +15 30th 4th 0 1 1 -3 0
2012/13 Nashville Predators NHL 1 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2013/14 Nashville Predators NHL 62 1 8th 9 -8th 10 - - - - - -
2014/15 Nashville Predators NHL 80 7th 11 18th +12 52 6th 1 0 1 +4 2
2015/16 Nashville Predators NHL 82 8th 27 35 +14 44 14th 3 4th 7th +2 4th
2016/17 Nashville Predators NHL 82 3 20th 23 +4 34 22nd 1 10 11 +6 38
2017/18 Nashville Predators NHL 81 10 24 34 +25 46 13 1 7th 8th +4 12
2018/19 Nashville Predators NHL 80 8th 36 44 +27 47 6th 0 2 2 −2 12
2019/20 Nashville Predators NHL 68 8th 25th 33 -1 32 4th 0 1 1 -2 0
J20 SuperElit overall 94 8th 16 24 114 2 0 0 0 0
Allsvenskan total 79 3 32 35 +17 66 5 0 0 0 +1 10
Elitserien total 97 19th 31 50 +11 93 28 1 12 13 +4 24
NHL overall 538 45 151 196 +71 265 65 6th 24 30th +12 68

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2008 Sweden U18 World Cup 4th Place 6th 1 0 1 +2 2
2010 Sweden U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 6th 1 0 1 +10 6th
2014 Sweden WM 3rd place, bronze 10 2 5 7th +1 8th
2015 Sweden WM 5th place 8th 0 3 3 +2 6th
2016 Sweden WM 6th place 2 1 0 1 -4 2
2016 Sweden World cup 3rd place 4th 0 0 0 +2 2
2018 Sweden WM 1st place, gold 4th 1 2 3 +4 2
2019 Sweden WM 5th place 8th 0 2 2 +2 4th
Juniors overall 12 2 0 2 +12 8th
Men overall 36 4th 12 16 +7 24

( 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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