Oliver Kylington

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Oliver Kylington
Date of birth May 19, 1997
place of birth Stockholm , Sweden
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position defender
number # 58
Shot hand Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2014 , 3rd round, 107th position
HK Awangard Omsk
NHL Entry Draft 2015 , 2nd round, 60th position
Calgary Flames
Career stations
2013-2015 Färjestad BK
2014-2015 AIK ishockey
since 2015 Calgary Flames
Stockton Heat

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Oliver Kylington (* 19th May 1997 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ice hockey player of Eritrean descent who, since July 2015, the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team, the Stockton Heat , in the American Hockey League for Use comes.

Career

Oliver Kylington was born in Stockholm; his father is Swede and his mother is from Eritrea . In his youth he played for the youth teams of Djurgården Hockey , so he led the statistics of all defenders in the U16 SM in goals, assists and points scored in the 2011/12 season . In the summer of 2012 he switched to the youth team at Södertälje SK , where he played mainly in the U20 league SuperElit , where he scored 13 points in 39 games. In addition, he represented Sweden's U16 national team for the first time this 2012/13 season and led the team as assistant captain .

After just one season at Södertälje SK, he moved to Färjestad BK in summer 2013 , where he also started in the U20, but quickly rose to the professional squad and made his debut in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL), the highest ice hockey league in Sweden. In 32 games in the SHL he scored two goals, with Kylington becoming the SHL's youngest goalscorer at the time with his first goal. He also took part with the Swedish U17 selection in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 and came to a job there. After the season he was selected in the KHL Junior Draft by HK Awangard Omsk in 107th position.

In August 2014 he took part with the Swedish national team in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament and reached fourth place there. In the subsequent 2014/15 season he continued to play at Färjestad BK until November, before he was awarded to AIK Ishockey in the second-rate HockeyAllsvenskan . He should also have participated in the U20 World Cup in Canada, but missed the tournament due to an injury. Nevertheless, Kylington is considered one of the most promising talents for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , as the NHL Central Scouting listed him as the number one European outfield player in their mid-season report. He had to surrender this rank in the final final rankings of April 2015 and was rated 6th there. In the actual draft, the Swede was selected in 60th position by the Calgary Flames .

After the 2014/15 season, during which Kylington took part in the U18 World Cup in 2015 , he was permanently signed by second division AIK Ishockey , for whom he had previously played on loan. However, the Calgary Flames equipped him with an entry-level contract two months later , so that Kylington moved to North America and, as expected, was given to the Stockton Heat from the American Hockey League (AHL) there during the pre-season . The defender spent the entire season in Stockton, but was called up to the NHL squad in April 2016, where he made his debut for the Flames in the National Hockey League . However, he then returned to the AHL.

During the 2016/17 season, Kylington took part in the 2017 U20 World Cup and finished fourth with the Swedish selection.

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
2012/13 Södertälje SK J20 J20 SuperElit 39 3 10 13 +17 12 3 0 1 1 -1 0
2013/14 Färjestad BK J20 J20 SuperElit 21st 5 16 21st +17 22nd 2 3 0 3 +3 0
2013/14 Färjestad BK SHL 32 2 4th 6th +5 6th 12 0 2 2 -3 2
2014/15 Färjestad BK J20 J20 SuperElit 10 4th 3 7th -1 2 6th 0 5 5 +3 6th
2014/15 Färjestad BK SHL 18th 2 3 5 -2 4th - - - - - -
2014/15 AIK ishockey Allsvenskan 17th 4th 3 7th -2 6th - - - - - -
2015/16 Stockton Heat AHL 47 5 7th 12 -15 14th - - - - - -
2015/16 Calgary Flames NHL 1 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2016/17 Stockton Heat AHL 60 6th 21st 27 +3 22nd 5 0 1 1 ± 0 0
2017/18 Stockton Heat AHL 62 7th 28 35 -12 18th - - - - - -
2018/19 Stockton Heat AHL 18th 7th 7th 14th ± 0 8th - - - - - -
2018/19 Calgary Flames NHL 38 3 5 8th +3 10 - - - - - -
2019/20 Stockton Heat AHL 3 3 0 3 -2 0 - - - - - -
2019/20 Calgary Flames NHL 48 2 5 7th –6 16 - - - - - -
J20 SuperElit overall 70 12 29 41 +33 36 11 3 6th 9 +5 6th
SHL total 50 4th 7th 11 +3 10 12 0 2 2 -3 2
AHL total 190 28 63 91 -26 62 5 0 1 1 ± 0 0
NHL overall 87 5 10 15th -3 26th - - - - - -

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 Sweden WHC 6th place 1 0 0 0 0
2014 Sweden Hlinka Memorial 4th Place 5 1 2 3 +5 2
2015 Sweden U18 World Cup 8th place 5 0 2 2 –7 4th
2017 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 0 4th 4th +4 8th
Juniors overall 18th 1 8th 9 14th

( 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. ↑ a b iihf.com: "Kylington for the big stage" (English, August 13, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b nhl.com: "Kylington rated top international draft prospect" (English, January 20, 2015, accessed on January 24, 2015)
  3. ↑ Två super-long AIK. AIK Ishockey, May 13, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015 (Swedish).
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personal data
SURNAME Kylington, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden