Mikael Backlund

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Mikael Backlund
Date of birth March 17, 1989
place of birth Västerås , Sweden
size 183 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 11
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 1st lap, 24th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
until 2009 VIK Västerås HK
2009 Kelowna Rockets
since 2009 Calgary Flames
2012 VIK Västerås HK

Mikael Backlund (born March 17, 1989 in Västerås ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League since 2009 . With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2018 World Cup .

Career

Mikael Backlund began his career as a hockey player in the youth of VIK Västerås HK , for whose professional team he was active in the HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish league, from 2005 to 2009 . During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in the first round as a total of 24th player by the Calgary Flames , for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League on January 8, 2009 in the game against the New York Islanders . The rest of the 2008/09 season, however, spent the Swede with the Kelowna Rockets in the Canadian top junior division Western Hockey League . In the 2009/10 season he played mostly with the Abbotsford Heat in the American Hockey League and was there in 67 games for use, in which Backlund scored 41 points. In the same season he scored his first goal for the Calgary Flames in the NHL. The 2010/11 season he was with a few exceptions almost completely in the Flames' NHL squad and made a total of 71 games in which he was able to mark a total of 35 scorer points after an initial weak offensive. The following season was marked by many minor wounds and injuries for Backlund, so that the Swede only completed 41 season games in the NHL.

In the summer of 2012, he reached an agreement with Calgary on a one-year contract extension with a rumored salary of $ 725,000. The lockout at the beginning of the NHL season 2012/13 bridged the left-shooter at his hometown club VIK Västerås HK, for which he played 23 games and scored 30 points scorer. In July 2013, Backlund extended his contract with the Flames for two more years and received a total salary of $ 3 million. When this expired, he signed a new three-year contract for a total of $ 10.725 million.

In the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons, the attacker increased his previous best performance in scorer points to 47 and 53 respectively, so that he received a new five-year contract in Calgary in February 2018, which earned him an average annual salary of 5.35 million US dollars should.

International

For Sweden , Backlund took part in the U18 World Junior Championships in 2006 and 2007 , and the U20 World Junior Championships in 2008 and 2009 . Since the 2010/11 season, the Swede is regular in the squad of the senior national team and participated in consequence to the world championships in 2010 , 2011 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 in part, where he became 2018 world champion with the team in years. He also represented his home country at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 , where he came third 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
2005/06 VIK Västerås HK J20 J20 SuperElit 25th 15th 16 31 30th - - - - - -
2005/06 VIK Västerås HK Allsvenskan 12 2 2 4th +2 14th - - - - - -
2006/07 VIK Västerås HK J20 J20 SuperElit 7th 5 4th 9 8th 5 1 0 1 4th
2006/07 VIK Västerås HK Allsvenskan 18th 1 2 3 +1 14th - - - - - -
2007/08 VIK Västerås HK J20 J20 SuperElit 9 7th 6th 13 20th - - - - - -
2007/08 VIK Västerås HK Allsvenskan 37 9 4th 13 -1 24 9 2 0 2 -3 4th
2008/09 VIK Västerås HK J20 J20 SuperElit 2 3 2 5 0 - - - - - -
2008/09 VIK Västerås HK Allsvenskan 17th 4th 4th 8th -3 39 - - - - - -
2008/09 Kelowna Rockets WHL 28 12 18th 30th +10 26th 19th 13 10 23 +16 26th
2008/09 Calgary Flames NHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2009/10 Abbotsford Heat AHL 54 15th 17th 32 ± 0 26th 13 1 8th 9 +5 14th
2009/10 Calgary Flames NHL 23 1 9 10 +5 6th - - - - - -
2010/11 Abbotsford Heat AHL 1 0 0 0 -1 0 - - - - - -
2010/11 Calgary Flames NHL 73 10 15th 25th +4 18th - - - - - -
2011/12 Calgary Flames NHL 41 4th 7th 11 -13 16 - - - - - -
2012/13 VIK Västerås HK Allsvenskan 23 12 18th 30th +13 22nd - - - - - -
2012/13 Calgary Flames NHL 32 8th 8th 16 –6 29 - - - - - -
2013/14 Calgary Flames NHL 76 18th 21st 39 +4 32 - - - - - -
2014/15 Calgary Flames NHL 52 10 17th 27 +4 14th 11 1 1 2 -1 8th
2015/16 Calgary Flames NHL 82 21st 26th 47 +10 28 - - - - - -
2016/17 Calgary Flames NHL 81 22nd 31 53 +9 36 4th 1 2 3 -3 0
2017/18 Calgary Flames NHL 82 14th 31 45 -21 78 - - - - - -
2018/19 Calgary Flames NHL 77 21st 26th 47 +34 52 5 1 2 3 -5 8th
2019/20 Calgary Flames NHL 70 16 29 45 +3 26th 10 4th 2 6th -2 8th
J20 SuperElit overall 43 30th 28 58 58 5 1 0 1 4th
Allsvenskan total 107 28 30th 58 +12 113 9 2 0 2 -3 4th
AHL total 55 15th 17th 32 -1 26th 13 1 8th 9 +5 14th
NHL overall 690 145 220 365 +33 335 30th 7th 7th 14th –11 24

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2006 Sweden U18 World Cup 6th place 3 1 0 1 +2 0
2007 Sweden U18 World Cup Bronze medal 6th 6th 1 7th ± 0 6th
2008 Sweden U20 World Cup Silver medal 6th 3 4th 7th +3 10
2009 Sweden U20 World Cup Silver medal 6th 5 2 7th -1 6th
2010 Sweden WM Bronze medal 6th 0 1 1 +3 2
2011 Sweden WM Silver medal 9 3 2 5 +4 2
2014 Sweden WM Bronze medal 10 5 3 8th +3 29
2016 Sweden WM 6th place 8th 3 1 4th -2 4th
2016 Sweden World cup 3rd place 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0
2018 Sweden WM gold medal 10 2 7th 9 +7 6th
Juniors overall 21st 15th 7th 22nd +4 22nd
Men overall 45 13 14th 27 +15 43

( 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 : Mikael Backlund  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cbc.ca Flames re-sign Mikael Backlund: NHL free agency roundup
  2. ↑ flames.nhl.com Flames sign Mikael Backlund to a two-year deal
  3. ↑ Flames sign Mikael Backlund. nhl.com, February 17, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
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personal data
SURNAME Backlund, Mikael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Västerås , Sweden