Victor Olofsson

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SwedenSweden  Victor Olofsson Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 18, 1995
place of birth Örnsköldsvik , Sweden
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 7th round, 181st position
Buffalo Sabers
KHL Junior Draft 2016 , 2nd round, 43rd position
HK CSKA Moscow
Career stations
until 2016 MODO hockey
2016-2018 Frölunda HC
2018-2019 Rochester Americans
since 2019 Buffalo Sabers

Victor Olofsson (born July 18, 1995 in Örnsköldsvik ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Buffalo Sabers from the National Hockey League since April 2018 and plays for them in the position of winger .

Career

Victor Olofsson was born in Örnsköldsvik and passed through the youth department of MODO Hockey in his hometown . He made his debut for the club's U20 in the 2012/13 season in the J20 SuperElit , Sweden's highest junior league. There he convinced the following year with 53 scorer points from 44 games, so that he also came to the first eleven appearances for MODO in the Svenska Hockeyligan (SHL), the highest-ranking professional league in his home country. Then he considered the Buffalo Sabers in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in 181st position. In the following season 2014/15, apart from a short loan at Timrå IK and sporadic appearances in the U20 , the attacker was mainly used for MODO in the SHL. There he subsequently established himself as a top performer, he was the top goalscorer (14) and scorer (29) of his team in the 2015/16 season, but could not prevent relegation to the second-class Allsvenskan . He was also selected in the KHL Junior Draft 2016 in 43rd place by HK CSKA Moscow . Due to his shown performances, however, Olofsson stayed in the SHL by joining the Frölunda HC . With the Indians , he won the Champions Hockey League in the 2016/17 season , before he significantly increased his personal statistics again the following year. With 27 goals scored, he led the entire league and was therefore honored with the Håkan Loob Trophy .

The Buffalo Sabers took these achievements as an opportunity to equip the winger with an entry-level contract in April 2018 . Olofsson also led their farm team , the Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League (AHL), in the 2018/19 season with 30 goals and 63 scorer points, making his debut for the Sabers in the National Hockey League (NHL) in March 2019. gave. During the preparation for the 2019/20 season, he earned a regular place at these and has since been regularly employed in the NHL. In the first 13 games he recorded ten points scorer and was therefore honored as NHL rookie of the month October. After he had topped the rookie scorer list at the end of the year, he was given the award again for the month of December. Ultimately, at the end of the shortened season, he placed fourth among the best rookies scorers with 42 points .

International

On an international level, Olofsson made his debut for the Swedish U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2015 , where he finished fourth with the team. As part of the Euro Hockey Tour of the 2017/18 season, he also played for the senior national team of the Tre Kronor .

Achievements and Awards

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
2012/13 MODO Hockey J20 J20 SuperElit 7th 2 3 5 +5 0 6th 0 1 1 +1 0
2013/14 MODO Hockey J20 J20 SuperElit 44 32 21st 53 +13 16 5 4th 5 9 +9 2
2013/14 MODO hockey SHL 11 0 0 0 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2014/15 MODO Hockey J20 J20 SuperElit 6th 1 3 4th -1 0 5 3 5 8th +2 0
2014/15 Timrå IK Allsvenskan 8th 2 0 2 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
2014/15 MODO hockey SHL 39 10 8th 18th -1 4th - - - - - -
2015/16 MODO hockey SHL 49 14th 15th 29 -1 6th 7 1 6 1 2 1 8 1 +11 1 2 1
2016/17 Frölunda HC SHL 51 9 18th 27 +4 2 14th 4th 8th 12 +4 0
2017/18 Frölunda HC SHL 50 27 16 43 +1 8th 6th 3 1 4th -1 2
2018/19 Rochester Americans AHL 66 30th 33 63 +12 12 3 0 0 0 -3 0
2018/19 Buffalo Sabers NHL 6th 2 2 4th +1 2 - - - - - -
2019/20 Buffalo Sabers NHL 54 20th 22nd 42 -1 6th - - - - - -
J20 SuperElit overall 57 35 27 62 +17 16 16 7th 11 18th +12 2
SHL total 200 60 57 117 +3 20th 27 13 11 24 +14 4th
NHL overall 60 22nd 24 46 ± 0 8th - - - - - -

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2015 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 0 1 1 +1 0
Juniors overall 7th 0 1 1 +1 0

( 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 )

family

His father was Tony Olofsson and his older brother Jesper Olofsson is also active as an ice hockey player, so both played for MODO Hockey, among others.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabers sign Victor Olofsson. nhl.com, April 24, 2018, accessed October 27, 2019 .
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Squad of the Buffalo Sabers in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Olofsson, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Örnsköldsvik , Sweden