Mattias Janmark

Mattias Janmark
Date of birth	December 8, 1992
place of birth	Stockholm , Sweden
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 13
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2013 , 3rd round, 79th position Detroit Red Wings
KHL Junior Draft	2015 , 2nd round, 46th position Yaroslavl locomotive
Career stations
2008 / 09-2014	AIK ishockey
2014	Grand Rapids Griffins
2014-2015	Frölunda HC
since 2015	Dallas Stars

Mattias Janmark-Nylén (born December 8, 1992 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League since April 2015 . With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2018 World Cup .

Career

Beginnings in Sweden

Janmark in the jersey of AIK Ishockey (2013)

Mattias Janmark was born in Stockholm and, like his four years older brother Jonatan , played in his youth for the SDE HF , a youth team from Stocksund , a suburb of the Swedish capital. During the 2008/09 season, the center moved to the U18 junior team of the then second division AIK Ishockey from Solna . The following year he completed his first appearances in the J20 SuperElit , the highest junior league in Sweden. In his first full season in the SuperElit Janmark came to 28 scorer points in 40 games and was named team captain at the beginning of the following season . In this he increased his personal statistics significantly to 61 points in 40 games, so that he was appointed to the AIK A-squad after the end of the junior season and subsequently his first 18 professional appearances in the Elitserien , the highest Swedish league , completed.

In the 2012/13 season, which he spent entirely in the AIK's senior squad, Janmark scored 14 goals and 17 assists in 55 games, earning him one of four nominations for rookie of the year (however, the later winner was William Karlsson ). At the same time, the attacker attracted enough attention to be selected in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in 79th position by the Detroit Red Wings . For the time being, however, Janmark stayed in his home country with AIK, with whom he was relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan in the 2013/14 season. Shortly thereafter, the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Red Wings from the American Hockey League (AHL), took him under contract on a trial basis until the end of the season, so that he came to his first eight appearances in North America. The center did not leave a lasting impression, however, so that it returned to Sweden a little later, where the AIK handed it over to Frölunda HC in June 2014 , so that Janmark continued to play first-class.

During the 2014/15 season, in which he produced 36 points for Frölunda HC, the Red Wings gave his NHL rights including Mattias Bäckman to the Dallas Stars and received Erik Cole in return . The "mastermind" of the transfer was Jim Nill , General Manager of the Dallas Stars, who was still working as a scout for Detroit in 2013 and was instrumental in the Red Wings' selection of the Swede in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. As in the previous year, Janmark traveled to the United States after the season ended in 2015 to play for the Texas Stars , the Dallas Stars' farm team, although he only made a single appearance in the Calder Cup playoffs.

NHL

So it was actually clear that Janmark should spend at least another year in Sweden, so that he started the 2015/16 season in late summer at Frölunda HC in the Champions Hockey League . In September he traveled to North America again for a junior tournament and the stars' training camp, but with little chance of success. However, Janmark was so convincing in preparation that he not only completed all the preparatory games, but actually made the jump into the final NHL roster of stars. This was followed by an impressive start to his rookie season, in which he scored his first and second NHL goal with the first shot after a few seconds in his first two competitive games. With two assists in the two following games, he became the first player in franchise history to score a scorer point in each of his first four NHL games.

At the end of September 2016 it became known that Janmark had been diagnosed with osteochondrosis dissecans in the knee, a disease of the cartilage and bones in the joint . The treatment made an operation necessary, so that the Swede was out for the entire 2016/17 season.

International

On an international level, Janmark represented his home country in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons at the Euro Hockey Tour , with the team winning the gold medal in 2015. He then took part in the 2018 World Cup with the Tre Kronor , where he also won the gold medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2018 gold medal at the world championship

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
2009/10	AIK Ishockey U20	SuperElit		13	4th	7th	11		16		4th	0	1	1		0
2010/11	AIK Ishockey U20	SuperElit		40	11	17th	28		34		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	AIK Ishockey U20	SuperElit		40	23	38	61	+20	30th		3	0	0	0	+1	4th
2011/12	AIK ishockey	SHL		18th	0	0	0	-4	2		3	0	0	0	± 0	0
2012/13	AIK ishockey	SHL		55	14th	17th	31	-4	32		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	AIK ishockey	SHL		45	18th	12	30th	–6	56		10 1	1 1	3 1	4 1	± 0 1	24 1
2013/14	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		2	0	0	0	+1	2		6th	0	1	1	-1	0
2014/15	Frölunda HC	SHL		55	13	23	36	+9	30th		13	4th	3	7th	± 0	4th
2014/15	Texas Stars	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		1	0	0	0	± 0	0
2015/16	Dallas Stars	NHL		73	15th	14th	29	+12	16		12	2	3	5	-3	2
2016/17	Dallas Stars	NHL		No action due to injury
2017/18	Dallas Stars	NHL		81	19th	15th	34	-13	24	-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Dallas Stars	NHL		81	6th	19th	25th	-4	24	7th	1	2	3	-1	8th
SuperElit overall				93	38	62	100		70	7th	0	1	1		4th
SHL total				173	45	52	97	-5	120	26th	5	6th	11	± 0	28
AHL total				2	0	0	0	+1	2	7th	0	1	1	-1	0
NHL overall				235	40	48	88	-5	64	19th	3	5	8th	-4	10

International

Represented Sweden at:

• World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2018	Sweden	WM			10	4th	6th	10	+8	8th
Men overall					10	4th	6th	10	+8	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 )

Web links

Commons : Mattias Janmark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Dallas Stars website
• Mattias Janmark at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Gyllander: forwarden Mattias Janmark till Frölunda. frolundaindians.com, June 3, 2014, accessed January 4, 2016 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mark Stepneski: Mattias Janmark off to solid start in first NHL season. stars.nhl.com, December 13, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Alex Prewitt: Rookie Mattias Janmark happened while the Stars made other plans. si.com, October 20, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Sean Shapiro: Stars forward Mattias Janmark to miss 5-6 months. nhl.com, September 30, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016 .