Mika Zibanejad

Sweden Mika Zibanejad


Date of birth	April 18, 1993
place of birth	Huddinge , Sweden
size	187 cm
Weight	87 kg

position	center
number	# 93
Shot hand	Right

Draft

KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 6th round, 129th position Yaroslavl locomotive
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 1st round, 6th position Ottawa Senators

Career stations

until 2008	Hammarby IF
2008-2009	AIK Solna
2009–2012	Djurgårdens IF
2011-2016	Ottawa Senators
since 2016	New York Rangers

Mika Zibanejad (* 18th April 1993 in Huddinge ) is a Swedish ice hockey player Finnish and Iranian origin, in the since July 2016 New York Rangers in the National Hockey League on the position of the center plays. With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2018 World Cup .

Career

Mika Zibanejad began his career at Hammarby IF , where he went through all the youth teams. In 2008 his hometown club went bankrupt , and Zibanejad moved to the AIK junior team , for which he played in the J18 SuperElit. In April 2009 he was signed by Djurgårdens IF to play for the club's U18 and U20 teams. On December 7, 2010 he made his debut for the club's professional team in the Elitserien against Luleå HF and scored his first Elitserien goal on January 15, 2011 against Tuomas Tarkki from MODO Hockey .

At the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , the Swede was selected in the first round in sixth position by the Ottawa Senators . They signed a three-year contract with him on July 13, 2011 and started using him regularly from the 2011/12 season . After five years and almost 300 games, the Senators gave him to the New York Rangers in July 2016, including a second-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Derick Brassard and a seven-round suffrage moved to Ottawa for the same draft. After a season in New York, the Swede signed a new five-year contract with the Rangers in July 2017, which should bring him an average annual salary of $ 5.35 million.

In the 2018/19 season , Zibanejad recorded his previous career record with 74 scorer points and also reached the 30 goal mark for the first time. The Swede made an excellent start to the 2019/20 season , recording a total of eight points in the first two games of the season. This was last achieved by Jaromír Jágr in the 1995/96 season . On March 5, 2020, Zibanejad scored five goals in a 6-5 overtime win over Washington Capitals . Ultimately, at the end of the 2019/20 season, he confirmed the performance of the previous year with 75 points, but required significantly fewer games (57) and also reached the 40-goal mark.

Achievements and Awards

2010 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2010 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2011 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

2012 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2018 gold medal at the world championship

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	Djurgårdens IF	J20 SuperElit	14th	2	2	4th	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Djurgårdens IF	J20 SuperElit	27	12	9	21st	12	3	1	2	3	0
2010/11	Djurgårdens IF	Elitserien	26th	5	4th	9	2	7th	1	1	2	2
2011/12	Ottawa Senators	NHL	9	0	1	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Djurgårdens IF	Elitserien	26th	5	8th	13	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL	42	7th	13	20th	6th	10	1	3	4th	0
2012/13	Binghamton Senators	AHL	23	4th	7th	11	10	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Ottawa Senators	NHL	69	16	17th	33	18th	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Binghamton Senators	AHL	6th	2	5	7th	2	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ottawa Senators	NHL	80	20th	26th	46	20th	6th	1	3	4th	0
2015/16	Ottawa Senators	NHL	81	22nd	34	56	28	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	New York Rangers	NHL	56	14th	23	37	16	12	2	7th	9	0
2017/18	New York Rangers	NHL	72	27	20th	47	14th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL	82	30th	44	74	47	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL	57	41	34	75	14th	3	1	1	2	0
J20 SuperElit overall			41	14th	11	25th	16	3	1	2	3	0
Elitserien total			52	10	12	22nd	6th	7th	1	1	2	2
AHL total			29	6th	12	18th	12	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			548	176	208	384	155	31	5	14th	19th	0

International

Represented Sweden at:

year	team	event	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Sweden	WHC	6th	5	4th	9	4th
2010	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial	5	3	2	5	2
2011	Sweden	U18 World Cup	6th	4th	4th	8th	2
2012	Sweden	U20 World Cup	6th	4th	1	5	2
2018	Sweden	WM	10	6th	5	11	0
Juniors overall			23	16	11	27	10
Men overall			10	6th	5	11	0

( 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 )