Rickard Rakell

Rickard Rakell
Date of birth	May 5, 1993
place of birth	Stockholm , Sweden
size	188 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 67
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 1st round, 30th position Anaheim Ducks
KHL Junior Draft	2012 , 2nd round, 42nd position HK Sibir Novosibirsk
Career stations
until 2008	Spånga IS
2008-2010	AIK Solna
2010-2013	Plymouth Whalers
since 2013	Anaheim Ducks

Rickard Lars Gunnar Roland Rakell (born May 5, 1993 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Anaheim Ducks from the National Hockey League since July 2012 and has been playing the right winger for them since January 2013 . With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2018 World Cup .

Career

Rickard Rakell began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Spånga IS, where he was active until 2008. The center then moved to AIK Solna , for whose U16, U18 and U20 juniors he played in the following two years. For the 2010/11 season he joined the Plymouth Whalers from Canada's top junior league Ontario Hockey League . In his first season in North America he scored 19 goals and 24 assists in a total of 50 games, whereupon he was selected in the first round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft as the 30th player by the Anaheim Ducks . In the following season he was able to increase his points yield to 62 points in 60 games and also convinced in the playoffs with 12 points in 13 games for Plymouth in the Ontario Hockey League .

In early July 2012, Rakell signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Anaheim Ducks. After the Swede convinced in the training camp of the Ducks, he made his debut after the end of the NHL lockout in the following season - on January 19, 2013 in the away game at the Vancouver Canucks - for the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League . He played a total of four games for Anaheim, but remained pointless. After he was sent back to the Whalers, he finished the regular season with 44 points in 40 games and also knew how to convince with 15 points in as many games in the playoffs.

After the 2015/16 season, as a restricted free agent , the Swede was unable to agree on a new contract with the Ducks for a long time, so that he was not part of the team at the start of the new season. It wasn't until October 14, 2016 that he signed a new six-year contract in Anaheim, which should earn him an average annual salary of $ 3.8 million. In the 2017/18 season, he significantly increased his personal statistics to a previous career record of 69 points in 77 games. He also led the Ducks for the first time in the scorer ranking.

International

For Sweden , Rakell took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2011 , 2012 and 2013 . In 2016 he was in the Swedish squad for the World Cup of Hockey , but had to cancel due to illness as part of the preparation for the tournament. At the 2018 World Cup , he won the gold medal with the Tre Kronor , leading his team with 14 scorer points and being elected to the all-star team of the tournament.

Achievements and Awards

• 2011 CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2018 NHL All-Star Game

International

2010 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

2013 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship 2018 gold medal at the world championship 2018 World Championship All-Star Team

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
2010/11	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		49	19th	24	43	12		1	0	0	0	0
2011/12	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		60	28	34	62	12		13	2	10	12	0
2012/13	Plymouth Whalers	OHL		40	21st	23	44	12		15th	6th	9	15th	10
2012/13	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		4th	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		46	14th	23	37	12		1	0	1	1	0
2013/14	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		18th	0	4th	4th	2		4th	1	1	2	0
2014/15	Norfolk Admirals	AHL		2	1	3	4th	0		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		71	9	22nd	31	10		16	1	0	1	2
2015/16	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		72	20th	23	43	19th		7th	1	1	2	0
2016/17	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		71	33	18th	51	12		15th	7th	6th	13	0
2017/18	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		77	34	35	69	14th		4th	1	0	1	0
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		69	18th	25th	43	27		-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		65	15th	27	42	12		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				149	68	81	149	36		29	8th	19th	27	10
AHL total				48	15th	26th	41	12		1	0	1	1	0
NHL overall				447	129	154	283	96		46	11	8th	19th	2

International

Represented Sweden at:

World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010 U20 World Junior Championship 2011

U20 Junior World Championship 2012 U20 Junior World Championship 2013 World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2010	Sweden	U17-WHC			6th	1	1	2	2
2010	Sweden	Hlinka Memorial			5	0	2	2	4th
2011	Sweden	U20 World Cup	4th Place		5	0	3	3	2
2012	Sweden	U20 World Cup			6th	2	3	5	4th
2013	Sweden	U20 World Cup			6th	0	6th	6th	16
2018	Sweden	WM			10	6th	8th	14th	6th
Juniors overall					23	3	13	16	24
Men overall					10	6th	8th	14th	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 : Rickard Rakell  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player biography on the Anaheim Ducks website
• Rickard Rakell at eliteprospects.com (English)