Stefan Espeland

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NorwayNorway  Stefan Espeland Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 24, 1989
place of birth Oslo , Norway
size 184 cm
Weight 84 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2005-2007 Linköpings HC
2007-2009 MODO hockey
2009-2010 Vålerenga ishockey
2010-2011 IF Sundsvall Hockey
2011 Borås HC
2011-2015 Vålerenga ishockey
2015-2017 Lørenskog IK
2017 Tampereen Ilves
2018-2019 Vålerenga ishockey
2019-2020 Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven
since 2020 Polar bears Berlin

Stefan Espeland (born March 24, 1989 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Eisbären Berlin in the DEL since March 2020 .

Career

Stefan Espeland began his career as an ice hockey player in Manglerud Star's youth team . In 2005 he moved to Linköpings HC in Sweden, for whose junior teams he was active until 2007. The defender then moved to MODO Hockey within Sweden , for which he made his debut in the Elitserien in the 2007/08 season . He came to two missions in which he remained pointless and punished. During the following season , the Norwegian junior national player received significantly more ice time in the Elitserien and played a total of 15 games, but again failed to score points and, as in the previous year, mainly played with the U20 juniors from MODO Hockey.

Espeland spent the 2009/10 season on loan in his Norwegian homeland. With Vålerenga Ishockey from the GET-ligaen he was runner-up. In 58 games he was able to score three goals and give 13 assists. For the 2010/11 season MODO Hockey gave him to IF Sundsvall Hockey from HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. For the 2011/12 season he moved within the second Swedish division to Borås HC . However, he returned to Vålerenga in December 2012, where he played until 2015, and in 2014 he achieved the best plus / minus balance in the GET leagues. He then joined Lørenskog IK , with whom he was runner-up in Norway in 2016, like three times before with Vålerenga. He himself was elected to the league's all-star team that season. He was re-elected to the All-Star Team in 2017 after providing the most assists in the season. He then moved to Tampereen Ilves in the Finnish Liiga , but left the club again in December and joined the Klagenfurt AC from the Austrian ice hockey league . In February 2018 he returned to Vålerenga again.

In the 2019/20 season, the Norwegian international played for the Fischtown Pinguins in the German Ice Hockey League . After Stefan Espeland ended the season as the second strongest defender on points, he moved to Eisbären Berlin with his teammate Mark Zengerle .

International

For Norway, Espeland took part in the junior division of the U18 World Junior Championships in the top division in 2006 , the U18 World Junior Championships in Division I in 2007 and the U20 Junior World Championships in Division I in 2008 and 2009 . At the Junior World Championships, he scored a total of five goals in 21 games and provided nine assists.

With the Norwegian men's selection , he played in the top division at the 2014 and 2015 World Championships . He also represented his colors in the Olympic qualification for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang .

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes +/-
Elitserien main round 2 17th 0 0 0 2 1
Elitserien Playoffs - - - - - - -
HockeyAllsvenskan main round 2 74 6th 17th 23 46 −16
HockeyAllsvenskan playoffs - - - - - - -
GET ligaen main round 9 311 46 202 248 202 167
GET league playoffs 9 108 19th 145 64 62 26th

(Status: end of the 2018/19 season)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeysverige.se, Sundsvall plockar in trio
  2. ↑ "EC-KAC obliges Stefan Espeland" at www.kac.at, accessed on January 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Norwegian national team reinforces the Fischtown Pinguins
  4. ↑ Eisbären Berlin: Eisbären Berlin sign defender Stefan Espeland and striker Mark Zengerle. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
Eisbären Berlin squad in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Espeland, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway