Patric Kjellberg

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SwedenSweden  Patric Kjellberg Ice hockey player
Date of birth 17th June 1969
place of birth Trelleborg , Sweden
size 188 cm
Weight 96 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1988 , 4th lap, 83rd position
Montréal Canadiens
Career stations
1985-1988 Falu IF
1988-1992 AIK Solna
1992-1993 Montréal Canadiens
1993-1995 HV71
1995-1998 Djurgårdens IF
1998-2001 Nashville Predators
2001-2003 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

Patric Kjellberg (born June 17, 1969 in Trelleborg ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League from 1985 to 2003 for the Montréal Canadiens , Nashville Predators and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, among others .

Career

Patric Kjellberg began his career as a hockey player at Falu IF , for whom he was active from 1985 to 1988 in the second-rate Division 1. He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988 in the fourth round as a total of 83 players by the Montreal Canadiens . Initially, however, the attacker stayed in his Swedish homeland, where AIK Solna played in the Elitserien for the next four years before he was ordered to North America by the Montreal Canadiens for the 1992/93 season . In his rookie year , the left-handed shooter received two penalty minutes in seven games in the National Hockey League for the team from Québec . However, he spent most of the season with their farm team from the American Hockey League , the Fredericton Canadiens .

In the summer of 1993 Kjellberg returned to Sweden, where he received a contract with HV71 , with which he became Swedish champions for the first and only time in his career in the 1994/95 season . The 1994 Olympic champion then spent three years at their league rivals from the Elitserien Djurgårdens IF , where he was the top scorer in the Elitserien main round with 30 goals in the 1997/98 season . Thus, the Swede for a contract with the newly established NHL franchise Nashville Predators recommend for which he was regularly in the following three seasons on the ice before it on 1 November 2001 in exchange for Petr Tenkrát to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim given has been. With the Californians, the winger reached the finals of the prestigious Stanley Cup in the 2002/03 season , in which he and his team lost to the New Jersey Devils in the best-of-seven series with just 3: 4 wins. Following this season, he ended his career at the age of 34.

International

For Sweden , Kjellberg took part in the U20 Junior World Championship in 1989 , as well as the World Championships in 1992 and 1998 . He was also in Sweden's squad for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , 1994 in Lillehammer and 1998 in Nagano .

Achievements and Awards

International

NHL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Regular season 6th 394 64 96 160 84
Playoffs 1 10 0 0 0 0

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personal data
SURNAME Kjellberg, Patric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Trelleborg , Sweden