Par Lindholm

Par Lindholm
Date of birth	5th October 1991
place of birth	Kusmark , Sweden
size	180 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
until 2011	Skellefteå AIK
2010–2012	IF Sundsvall Hockey
2012-2013	Piteå HC
2013-2014	Karlskrona HK
2014-2018	Skellefteå AIK
2018-2019	Toronto Maple Leafs
2019	Winnipeg Jets
since 2019	Boston Bruins

Pär Lindholm (born October 5, 1991 in Kusmark ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who is under contract with the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League in July 2019 and plays for them on the position of the center . Lindholm took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics with the Swedish national team.

Career

Pär Lindholm was born in Kusmark and played in his youth in Skellefteå, just a few kilometers away, in the youth department of Skellefteå AIK . From the 2008/09 season he ran for their J20 in the J20 SuperElit , the highest junior league in Sweden, before he came to sporadic missions for the club's professional team in the Elitserien in the following two years , but without establishing himself there. As a result, the attacker spent the seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12 on loan at IF Sundsvall Hockey in the second-rate Allsvenskan , where he could not prevent the team's relegation in 2012. For the following season, Lindholm even moved to third-class Division 1 and spent a year at Piteå HC before joining Karlskrona HK for the 2013/14 season and thus returned to the second division.

For Karlskrona, the center got 42 scorer points in 52 games, so that he was among the ten best scorers in the league, but missed promotion with the team. However, he managed to return to the top division in the country by returning to his training club in Skellefteå in April 2014 and signing a two-year contract there. This was extended by two years after it had expired, while Lindholm reached the final of the playoffs with the team in 2015, 2016 and 2018, but had to make do with the runner-up in each case. In the 2017/18 season, he significantly increased his personal statistics to 47 points in 49 games, making him fourth-best scorer in the Svenska Hockeyligan , so that he subsequently decided to move to North America and in May 2018 a one-year contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs signed.

In the service of the Maple Leafs, the Swede made the immediate leap into the National Hockey League without going through the American Hockey League . By February 2019 he had played 61 games for Toronto before he was transferred to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for Nic Petan . There he ended the season and then signed a two-year contract as a free agent with the Boston Bruins in July 2019 .

International

Without having previously represented a Swedish junior selection at a major tournament, Lindholm made his debut for Sweden's senior team as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2017/18 and shortly afterwards also belonged to the squad for the 2018 Winter Olympics . He benefited from the decision of the NHL not to interrupt their season for these Winter Games and thus to ban their players from participating. In Pyeongchang the attacker came on four missions and finished the tournament with the Tre Kronor in fifth place.

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2008/09	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit		4th	0	1	1		4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit		32	12	12	24		28		3	0	3	3		6th
2009/10	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien		2	0	0	0	± 0	0		1	0	0	0	± 0	2
2010/11	Skellefteå AIK J20	J20 SuperElit		1	1	0	1		2		5	1	3	4th		6th
2010/11	IF Sundsvall Hockey	Allsvenskan		50	7th	7th	14th	-14	36		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Skellefteå AIK	Elitserien		1	0	0	0	± 0	0		3	0	0	0	± 0	0
2011/12	IF Sundsvall Hockey	Allsvenskan		52	7th	7th	14th	-15	24		3 1	2	0	2	+2	0 <
2012/13	Piteå HC	Division 1		26th	7th	13	20th	+14	18th		17th	4th	12	16	+5	8th
2013/14	Karlskrona HK	Allsvenskan		52	13	29	42	+6	42		6th	1	3	4th	+2	2
2014/15	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		54	14th	12	26th	+14	55		15th	2	3	5	-1	8th
2015/16	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		52	6th	9	15th	+9	26th		16	3	1	4th	+2	8th
2016/17	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		38	15th	16	31	+1	39		7th	1	1	2	-3	6th
2017/18	Skellefteå AIK	SHL		49	18th	29	47	+18	28		16	6th	5	11	+2	16
2018/19	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		61	1	11	12	+5	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Winnipeg Jets	NHL		4th	0	1	1	± 0	0		2	0	0	0	± 0	0
J20 SuperElit overall				37	13	13	26th		34		8th	1	6th	7th		12
Allsvenskan total				154	27	43	70	-23	102		9	3	3	6th	+4	2
Elitserien / Svenska hockey clothes overall				196	53	66	119	+42	148		58	12	10	22nd	± 0	40
NHL overall				65	1	12	13	+5	18th		2	0	0	0	± 0	0

International

Represented Sweden at:

• Olympic Winter Games 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2018	Sweden	Olympia	5th place		4th	1	0	1	-1	6th
Men overall					4th	1	0	1	-1	6th

( 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 : Pär Lindholm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Boston Bruins website
• Pär Lindholm at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna Hägglund: Forward återvänder till Skellefteå AIK. skellefteaaik.se, April 28, 2014, accessed May 18, 2018 (Swedish). 
2. ^ Maple Leafs Sign Four to Entry Level Contracts. nhl.com, May 17, 2018, accessed May 18, 2018 .