Per Eklund (ice hockey player)

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SwedenSweden  Per Eklund Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 9, 1970
place of birth Sollentuna , Sweden
size 181 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1995 , 7th lap, 182nd position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1987-1992 Väsby IK
1992-1994 Huddinge IK
1994-1997 Djurgårdens IF
1997-1998 Adirondack Red Wings
1998-2000 Djurgårdens IF
2000-2001 Krefeld penguins
2001-2005 Linköpings HC
2005-2006 Djurgårdens IF
2006-2007 Straubing Tigers
2007-2009 Sollentuna HC

Per Eklund (born July 9, 1970 in Sollentuna ) is a former Swedish ice hockey player and current - functional and - trainer , who in the seasons 2000/01 and 2006/07 for the Krefeld Penguins , and for the Straubing Tigers from the German ice hockey league was active. During his engagement with the Straubing Tigers, Eklund set a new DEL record with his teammate Vitali Janke and the Berlin players Norman Martens and Patrick Jarrett . On October 15, 2006, with the goal to 2: 3, he was one of the four goal scorers of two teams who scored a goal within just 59 seconds (previously 75 seconds) of a game.

Career

Eklund began his career in 1987 at Väsby IK in what was then the second highest Swedish league, Division 1. There the striker was one of the players with the highest points in the team and scored 118 points in 118 games in the five years he was under contract with the club. For the 1992/93 season he moved to Huddinge IK within the league . After two more years he left the club and joined the first division club Djurgårdens IF , where he received his first appearances in the top division, the Elitserien . When he did well again in his first season in the Swedish elite class, some talent scouts from the National Hockey League noticed the right-handed shooter. After all, it was those responsible for the Detroit Red Wings who selected him in the seventh round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in 182nd position. Eklund stayed in the following two seasons with Djurgårdens IF before he moved in the summer of 1997 to the American Hockey League for the Adirondack Red Wings , the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings.

Shortly before moving to North America, he was nominated in 1997 for the Swedish national team , with which he took part in the World Cup in Finland that same year . There he was able to achieve second place with his team after a final defeat with 1: 2 games against Canada . Eklund played eleven games and scored six points, with a plus / minus statistic of +3.

With the Adirondack Red Wings he stayed despite good statistics, in 76 games he scored 50 times, only one year and ended his engagement in the AHL. He returned to his Swedish homeland and signed a contract with Djurgårdens IF, for which he was active between 1994 and 1997. For the 2000/01 season, the Krefeld Penguins from the German Ice Hockey League submitted a contract offer to him, after which he moved to Germany in the summer of 2000. In Krefeld, too, he only stayed one season and then joined the Linköpings HC from the Elitserien, for which he played for four years in the following years. After another brief interlude at Djurgårdens IF and the Straubing Tigers from the DEL, he moved to the fourth-highest Swedish division, Division 2, to Sollentuna HC in 2007 , where he was under contract for the following two years before Eklund after the 2008 / 09 ended his playing career. He then took over the position of Director of Hockey Operations at Sollentuna HC before the Swede was also appointed head coach of the team for the 2010/11 season.

Achievements and Awards

DEL statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
Main round 2 80 18th 14th 32 26th
Playoffs - - - - - -

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personal data
SURNAME Eklund, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player, official and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Sollentuna , Sweden