Mattias Sjogren

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Mattias Sjogren
Date of birth November 27, 1987
place of birth Landskrona , Sweden
Nickname Sjöa
size 189 cm
Weight 100 kg
position center
number # 11
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2003-2010 Rögle BK
2010-202 Färjestad BK
2011-2013 Hershey Bears
2013-2015 Linköpings HC
2015-2016 Ak Bars Kazan
2016-2018 ZSC Lions
since 2018 Rögle BK

Mattias Sjögren (born November 27, 1987 in Landskrona ) is a Swedish ice hockey player on the position of the center and right winger , who has been under contract with Rögle BK from Svenska Hockeyligan since April 2018 .

Career

Sjögren played at IF Lejonet in his junior years before he was active in the youth department of Rögle BK from 2003 . There he went through the U18 and U20 junior teams. In the 2004/05 season - at the age of 17 - he made his debut for Rögle in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan . From the 2005/06 season he was finally part of the senior squad with which he celebrated the Allsvenskan championship title at the end of the 2007/08 season. The team also qualified for the Elitserien via the Kval series .

After two good years with Rögle in the Elitserien and the interim appointment as assistant captain, he was signed by league rival Färjestad BK in April 2010 . With Färjestad he won the Swedish championship at the end of the 2010/11 season . In early June 2011 he signed a two-season contract with the Washington Capitals as a free agent . In the following two years he was used by the Capitals with the Hershey Bears in the American Hockey League and loaned to Färjestad BK in the second half of the 2011/12 season.

In May 2013 he was hired by Linköpings HC and was one of the top performers there for the next two years. At the end of the 2014/15 season he received the Peter Forsberg Trophy as the best striker of the Svenska Hockeyligan. He then left the LHC and was committed by Ak Bars Kazan from the Continental Hockey League . After a year in the KHL, he moved to Switzerland: In June 2016 he signed a contract with the ZSC Lions from the National League and won the Swiss championship with them in 2018 . He then returned to Rögle BK.

International

After Sjögren had already made a few appearances for the U20 juniors in his home country and had played for the senior selection as part of the Euro Hockey Tour , he was nominated for a major tournament for the first time at the 2011 World Cup in Slovakia .

Achievements and Awards

Elitserien Statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Main round 6th 273 42 87 129 176
Playoffs 4th 67 15th 31 46 40
Kvalseries 5 50 12 12 24 32

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sjögren lämnar Linköping - for KHL. In: aftonbladet.se. May 27, 2015, accessed October 14, 2015 (Swedish).
  2. Mattias Sjögren on the ZSC Lions. In: zsclions.ch. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .