Pontus Åberg

Pontus Åberg
Date of birth	September 23, 1993
place of birth	Stockholm , Sweden
size	181 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 66th position SKA Saint Petersburg
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 37th position Nashville Predators
Career stations
until 2013	Djurgårdens IF
2013-2014	Färjestad BK
2014-2018	Nashville Predators Milwaukee Admirals
2018	Edmonton Oilers
2018-2019	Anaheim Ducks
2019	Minnesota Wild
2019-2020	Toronto Marlies
since 2020	HK tractor Chelyabinsk

Keith Pontus Åberg (born September 23, 1993 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Traktor Chelyabinsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since July 2020 and plays there in the position of left winger .

Career

Åberg played at the club in his hometown Djurgårdens IF from Stockholm when he was a junior . There he went through the junior departments of the club until 2012 and made his debut in the men's team in the 2010/11 season, which ran up in the Elitserien . In the summer of 2012 he was selected in both the KHL Junior Draft by SKA Saint Petersburg and the NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators in the second round.

The winger stayed there for another year after relegating Djurgården to Allsvenskan before moving to Färjestad BK in the summer of 2013, which is now called Svenska Hockeyligan . With Färjestad he was Swedish runner-up. In May 2014, Åberg signed a contract with the Nashville Predators from the National Hockey League , who used him in the following years on their farm team , the Milwaukee Admirals , in the American Hockey League . During the play-offs of the 2015/16 season , the Swede finally made his NHL debut when he played in two games in the second round. The following year he reached the Stanley Cup final with the Predators, but lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins .

After almost four years in Nashville, the attacker was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers on the trade deadline in February 2018 , who in return sent Mark Letestu to Nashville. He ended the season with the Oilers and was finally signed by the Anaheim Ducks in October 2018 when he was supposed to be sent to the AHL via the waiver as part of the pre-season preparation . In Anaheim, the Swede was active until January 2019, when he was given to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Justin Kloos . He completed 22 games for the team and joined the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent in July 2019 . There he came with the exception of five NHL games but exclusively for the cooperation partner Toronto Marlies in the AHL.

In July 2020, the Swede returned to Europe and accepted an offer from HK Traktor Chelyabinsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL).

International

Åberg represented his home country at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 and at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010 , where he won the bronze medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2010 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
• 2014 Participation in the AHL All-Star Classic with Färjestad BK
• 2014 Swedish runner-up with Färjestad BK

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
2009/10	Djurgårdens IF	J20 SuperElit		11	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Djurgårdens IF	J20 SuperElit		41	13	17th	30th	16		4th	2	3	5	2
2010/11	Djurgårdens IF	Elitserien		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Djurgårdens IF	Elitserien		47	8th	7th	15th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Djurgårdens IF	Allsvenskan		52	12	28	40	6th		6th	3	1	4th	2
2013/14	Färjestad BK	SHL		52	15th	16	31	41		13	2	2	4th	4th
2014/15	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		69	16	18th	34	28		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		74	25th	15th	40	32		3	0	0	0	0
2015/16	Nashville Predators	NHL		-	-	-	-	-		2	0	0	0	0
2016/17	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		56	31	21st	52	40		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Nashville Predators	NHL		15th	1	1	2	4th		16	2	3	5	2
2017/18	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		4th	4th	2	6th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Nashville Predators	NHL		37	2	6th	8th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		16	2	6th	8th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Diego Gulls	AHL		2	1	1	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		37	11	8th	19th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		22nd	1	5	6th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Toronto Marlies	AHL		55	20th	24	44	36		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		5	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				52	13	18th	31	20th		4th	2	3	5	2
Elitserien / Svenska hockey clothes overall				100	23	23	46	47		13	2	2	4th	4th
AHL total				260	97	81	178	156		3	0	0	0	0
NHL overall				132	17th	27	44	34		18th	2	3	5	2

International

Represented Sweden at:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Sweden	U17-WHC			6th	2	0	2	4th
2010	Sweden	HIMT			5	5	2	7th	2
Juniors overall					11	7th	2	9	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

• Pontus Åberg in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Pontus Åberg at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Pontus Åberg at hockeydb.com (English)