Oliver Bjorkstrand
Date of birth | April 10, 1995 |
place of birth | Herning , Denmark |
size | 179 cm |
Weight | 71 kg |
position | Right wing |
Shot hand | Right |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
2013 , 3rd round, 89th position Columbus Blue Jackets |
Career stations | |
2010–2012 | Herning Blue Fox |
2012-2015 | Portland Winterhawks |
since 2015 | Columbus Blue Jackets |
Oliver Bjorkstrand (born April 10, 1995 in Herning ) is a Danish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League since December 2013 . His older brother is Patrick and his father Todd was also a professional ice hockey player.
Career
Bjorkstrand, whose father Todd, who was born in the United States , moved to Denmark in 1988 , was born in Herning in 1995 . There he played in his youth in the ice hockey youth department of Herning IK . His father had completed his entire professional career in Denmark for this club and took over the coaching position after his career ended.
At the age of 15, Oliver Bjorkstrand started playing in Herning IK's U20 team. In the 2010/11 season he reached 13 goals and three more assists in 11 games . Six more missions with one goal and seven assists followed in the play-offs . His exceptional talent was recognized by the club when he was appointed to the second senior team for the first time. There he was used in the second division 1st division in a play-off game. In the 2011/12 season he was a regular in the club's first team, which is based in the AL-Bank Ligaen , and where his older brother Patrick also played under her father from 2009. With Herning he won the double of championship title and cup victory in 2012 . He himself was voted the most valuable player in the cup competition.
For the 2012/13 season Bjorkstrand moved to North America to the Portland Winterhawks in the top junior division Western Hockey League . In his first season in North America he led all rookies in goals (31) and scorer points (63) and consequently took part in the CHL Top Prospects Game . With the Winterhawks he also won the playoffs and thus the Ed Chynoweth Cup . Then Bjorkstrand was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in the third round at a total of 89th position by the Columbus Blue Jackets . The following year the team reached the final again, but had to admit defeat to the Edmonton Oil Kings , with Bjorkstrand top scorer (16) and scorer (33) of the playoffs.
In the 2014/15 season he led the scorer list of the regular season and thus won the Bob Clarke Trophy , as well as the WHL Plus-Minus Award for the best plus / minus statistics (+60). In addition, he was awarded the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as WHL Player of the Season and, as in the previous year, was elected to the WHL (West) First All-Star Team.
After he failed to join the Blue Jackets' NHL roster at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he was first sent to their farm team, the Lake Erie Monsters , in the American Hockey League . In mid-March 2016, the Dane was called up for the first time in the NHL squad and scored his first two goals in the top division of North America in his second game. For the upcoming AHL playoffs, the attacker returned to the Monsters and won the Calder Cup with the team at the end . He himself was the top scorer of the playoffs with 10 goals and received as a result the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as MVP of the playoffs.
With the start of the 2017/18 season, Bjorkstrand finally established himself in the Blue Jackets line-up and scored 40 scorer points in his first full NHL season.
International
Bjorkstrand represented his home country Denmark for the first time at the U20 World Junior Championship in 2012 . There the striker was used in all six games alongside his older brother Patrick . He scored his two tournament goals in the relegation round in the games against Switzerland and Latvia . However, the Danes lost both games by one goal and were relegated to Division IA. There they rose again two years later and thus participated again in the top division of the U20 World Cup 2015 , with Bjorkstrand being part of the team at every tournament.
A little later he made his senior debut at the 2015 World Cup and completed three appearances during the tournament.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2014 promotion to the top division at the U20 Junior World Championship of Division IA
- 2014 Best striker in the U20 World Junior Championship in Division IA
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
2010/11 | Herning Blue Fox | U20 league | 11 | 13 | 6th | 19th | 2 | 6th | 1 | 7th | 8th | 0 | ||
2010/11 | Herning Blue Fox | 1st division | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2011/12 | Herning Blue Fox | 1st division | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2011/12 | Herning Blue Fox | AL-Bank Ligaen | 36 | 13 | 13 | 26th | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | ||
2012/13 | Portland Winterhawks | WHL | 65 | 31 | 32 | 63 | 10 | 21st | 8th | 11 | 19th | 4th | ||
2013/14 | Portland Winterhawks | WHL | 69 | 50 | 59 | 109 | 36 | 21st | 16 | 17th | 33 | 8th | ||
2014/15 | Portland Winterhawks | WHL | 59 | 63 | 55 | 118 | 35 | 17th | 13 | 12 | 25th | 10 | ||
2015/16 | Lake Erie Monsters | AHL | 51 | 17th | 12 | 29 | 10 | 17th | 10 | 6th | 16 | 2 | ||
2015/16 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 12 | 4th | 4th | 8th | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | Cleveland Monsters | AHL | 37 | 14th | 12 | 26th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2016/17 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 26th | 6th | 7th | 13 | 6th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
2017/18 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 82 | 11 | 29 | 40 | 9 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
2018/19 | Columbus Blue Jackets | NHL | 77 | 23 | 13 | 36 | 8th | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
1st division overall | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
WHL overall | 193 | 144 | 146 | 290 | 81 | 59 | 37 | 40 | 77 | 22nd | ||||
AHL total | 88 | 31 | 24 | 55 | 16 | 17th | 10 | 6th | 16 | 2 | ||||
NHL overall | 197 | 44 | 53 | 97 | 23 | 21st | 3 | 6th | 9 | 0 |
International
Represented Denmark at:
year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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2012 | Denmark | U20 World Cup | 10th place | 6th | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
2012 | Denmark | U18 World Cup | 10th place | 6th | 4th | 3 | 7th | 0 | |
2013 | Denmark | U20 World Cup Div. IA | 3rd place | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8th | 2 | |
2014 | Denmark | U20 World Cup Div. IA | 1st place | 5 | 4th | 2 | 6th | 2 | |
2015 | Denmark | U20 World Cup | 8th place | 5 | 4th | 1 | 5 | 2 | |
2015 | Denmark | WM | 14th place | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
2016 | Denmark | Olympic qualification | 3rd place | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
2018 | Denmark | WM | 10th place | 7th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
Juniors overall | 17th | 11 | 6th | 17th | 2 | ||||
Men overall | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 2 |
( 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
- Player biography on the Columbus Blue Jackets website
- Oliver Bjorkstrand at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blue Jackets reduce training camp roster to 35 players , Columbus Blue Jackets, September 25, 2015
Goalkeeper:
Joonas Korpisalo |
Elvis Merzļikins
defender:
Wladislaw Gawrikow |
Scott Harrington |
Seth Jones ( A ) |
Dean Kukan |
Ryan Murray |
Markus Nutivaara |
David Savard |
Zach Werenski
attacker:
Josh Anderson |
Cam Atkinson ( A ) |
Emil Bemström |
Oliver Bjorkstrand |
Brandon Dubinsky |
Pierre-Luc Dubois |
Nick Foligno ( C ) |
Boone Jenner ( A ) |
Riley Nash |
Gustav Nyquist |
Devin Shore |
Alexandre Texier |
Alexander Wennberg
Head Coach: John Tortorella Assistant Coach : Brad Larsen | Paul MacLean | Kenny McCudden | Brad Shaw General Manager: Jarmo Kekäläinen
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bjorkstrand, Oliver |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1995 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Herning , Denmark |