Niclas Bergfors

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SwedenSweden  Niclas Bergfors Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 7, 1987
place of birth Södertälje , Sweden
size 180 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2005 , 1st round, 23rd position
New Jersey Devils
Career stations
until 2005 Södertälje SK
2005-2006 Albany River Rats
2006-2009 Lowell Devils
2009-2010 New Jersey Devils
2010-2011 Atlanta Thrashers
2011 Florida Panthers
Nashville Predators
2012-2013 Severstal Cherepovets
2013-2015 Admiral Vladivostok
2015-2016 Amur Khabarovsk
2016-2017 Linköpings HC
since 2017 Djurgården IF

Niclas Bergfors (born March 7, 1987 in Södertälje ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Djurgården IF in the Svenska Hockeyligan since February 2017 .

Career

Niclas Bergfors began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown in the youth field of Södertälje SK , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Elitserien in the 2004/05 season . The attacker was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2005 in the first round as a total of 23 players by the New Jersey Devils . After he played in his first two years in North America exclusively for New Jersey's farm teams , the Albany River Rats and Lowell Devils from the American Hockey League , he played a total of nine games for the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League in the following two seasons on ice. Mainly, however, the Swede ran again for the AHL farm team from Lowell.

On February 4, 2010 Bergfors was transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers together with Johnny Oduya , Patrice Cormier and a draft pick for the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft , while in return Ilya Kowaltschuk and Anssi Salmela came to the Devils. In addition, the teams also exchanged their voting rights in the second round of the same draft. At the end of February 2011, shortly before the trade deadline, it was given to the Florida Panthers in a transfer deal .

Bergfors (far left) in Amur Khabarovsk's jersey , January 2016

On July 3, 2011, Bergfors signed a one-year contract with the Nashville Predators . In December 2011 he moved to Ak Bars Kazan from the Continental Hockey League , but left it again in January 2012 and was committed by Severstal Tscherepowez .

During the Expansion Draft on June 17, 2013, Bergfors was selected by Admiral Vladivostok . In December 2015, he moved to Amur KHLArovsk within the KHL , where he had played 23 KHL games by the end of the season.

In summer 2016 Bergfors returned to Sweden and was signed by Linköpings HC , where he played in 37 SHL games and 8 Champions Hockey League until February 2017 . He then moved to Djurgården IF shortly before the start of the play-offs .

International

For Sweden , Bergfors took part in the U18 Junior World Championships in 2004 and 2005 and the U20 Junior World Championships in 2005 , 2006 and 2007 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Södertälje SK Elitserien 25th 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0
2005/06 Albany River Rats AHL 65 17th 23 40 10 - - - - -
2006/07 Lowell Devils AHL 60 13 19th 32 8th - - - - -
2007/08 Lowell Devils AHL 66 12 15th 27 22nd - - - - -
2007/08 New Jersey Devils NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Lowell Devils AHL 66 22nd 29 51 14th - - - - -
2008/09 New Jersey Devils NHL 8th 1 0 1 0 - - - - -
2009/10 New Jersey Devils NHL 54 13 14th 27 10 - - - - -
2009/10 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 27 8th 9 17th 0 - - - - -
2010/11 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 52 11 18th 29 6th - - - - -
2010/11 Florida panthers NHL 20th 1 6th 7th 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Nashville Predators NHL 11 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Ak Bars Kazan KHL 8th 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 13 4th 3 7th 4th 6th 0 1 1 0
2012/13 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 45 8th 10 18th 2 9 0 2 2 0
2013/14 Admiral Vladivostok KHL 54 17th 19th 36 18th 5 1 1 2 2
2014/15 Admiral Vladivostok KHL 60 21st 23 44 14th - - - - -
2015/16 Admiral Vladivostok KHL 25th 3 8th 11 6th - - - - -
2015/16 Sokol Krasnoyarsk WsyHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2015/16 Amur Khabarovsk KHL 23 6th 7th 13 10 - - - - -
2016/17 Linköping HC SHL 36 3 2 5 10 - - - - -
2016/17 Djurgårdens IF SHL 10 2 3 5 2 3 3 1 4th 2
NHL overall 173 35 48 83 20th - - - - -
KHL total 228 59 71 130 56 20th 1 5 6th 2

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2004 Sweden U18 World Cup 6th 1 2 3 6th
2005 Sweden U20 World Cup 6th 2 1 3 2
2005 Sweden U18 World Cup 7th 6th 0 6th 0
2006 Sweden U20 World Cup 6th 3 3 6th 2
2007 Sweden U20 World Cup 7th 0 2 2 0
Juniors overall 32 12 8th 20th 10

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thrashers ship Kovalchuk to Devils for players, 1st rounder. The Sports Network , February 4, 2010, accessed February 5, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Список Йортикки. "Адмирал" выбрал игроков на Драфте расширения. khl.ru, June 17, 2013, accessed June 18, 2013 (Russian).
  3. ^ Niclas Bergfors till Djurgården. In: difhockey.se. Retrieved June 15, 2017 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Bergfors, Niclas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergfors, Nicklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Södertälje , Sweden