Robert Nilsson

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Robert Nilsson
Date of birth January 10, 1985
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 83 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2003 , 1st round, 15th position
New York Islanders
Career stations
2002-2004 Leksands IF
2004-2005 Hammarby IF
Djurgårdens IF
2005-2007 New York Islanders
2007-2010 Edmonton Oilers
2010-2011 Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2011–2012 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2013-2018 ZSC Lions

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Robert Åke Nilsson (born January 10, 1985 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a former Swedish - Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the ZSC Lions in the National League . His father Kent was also a hockey player.

Career

Robert Nilsson, who was born in Canada when his father Kent Nilsson played there in the NHL, began his career as a hockey player at Leksands IF , for which he played in the Swedish Elitserien from 2002 to 2004 and previously worked in the junior division. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2003 in the first round as a total of 15th player by the New York Islanders . He finished the 2003/04 season at Friborg-Gottéron in the Swiss National League A , for which he played eleven games together in the regular season and in the playoffs.

The time of lockout in the 2004/05 NHL season bridged the attacker at Hammarby IF from the Swedish second division and Djurgårdens IF from the Elitserien . The Swede was then added to the New York Islanders ' NHL squad before the 2005/06 season . Although he scored 20 scorer points in his first NHL season in 52 games, including six goals, he came in his second year in North America exclusively for the islanders' farm team , the Bridgeport Sound Tigers from the American Hockey League .

On February 27, 2007 Nilsson was given together with Ryan O'Marra and the first round suffrage of the Islanders in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in exchange for Ryan Smyth to the Edmonton Oilers . Until the end of the season, Nilsson was mainly used in their AHL farm team at the time, with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins . In his second year in Edmonton, however, he was already part of the permanent staff.

At the end of the 2009/10 season he was bought out by the Edmonton Oilers from the still existing contract and moved to Salawat Yulayev Ufa , with whom he won the title of the Continental Hockey League in the 2010/11 season . In the 2011/12 season he prepared five goals for Ufa in 15 games before he was ordered to Ufa's farm team Toros Neftekamsk from the second-rate Wysschaja Hockey League in October 2011 . For Neftekamsk, however, he only played two games before he was signed by KHL participant Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod at the end of the month .

In November 2012, Nilsson's contract with Torpedo was terminated after collecting 44 scorer points for the club in 65 KHL games. On January 8, 2013, the ZSC Lions announced that Nilsson was signed for the 2013-14 season. He was awarded a contract until 2016 with a release clause for an NHL one-way contract after each season. With the Lions he won the Swiss championship in 2014, with Nilsson taking the decisive penalty to win the title in the fourth final game against Kloten. In 2016 he won the Swiss Cup with the ZSC.

From 2018 he was plagued by the consequences of several brain tremors. He played his last game for the ZSC on January 21, 2018. Ultimately, he officially ended his career in January 2020.

International

For Sweden , Nilsson took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in 2001 and 2002 and the U20 Junior World Championships in 2003 , 2004 and 2005 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the 2008 and 2011 World Championships . His greatest international success with Sweden was winning the silver medal at the 2011 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
KHL main round 1 41 5 22nd 27 28
KHL playoffs 1 21st 3 7th 10 2
NHL Regular Season 5 252 37 81 118 90
NHL playoffs - - - - - -

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Pickel Kloten: Kloten - ZSC Lions 1: 2 n.P .: Nilsson makes the ZSC a master. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
  2. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , ZSC artist Robert Nilsson quietly says goodbye , Nicola Berger, November 15, 2019
  3. ↑ Robert Nilsson resigns. In: zsclions.ch. January 18, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nilsson, Robert Åke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta, Canada