Victor Rask

Victor Rask
Date of birth	March 1, 1993
place of birth	Leksand , Sweden
size	187 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	center
number	# 49
Shot hand	Left
Draft
KHL Junior Draft	2010 , 4th round, 89th position Dinamo Riga
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 2nd round, 42nd position Carolina Hurricanes
Career stations
until 2011	Leksands IF
2011-2013	Calgary Hitmen
2013-2014	Charlotte Checkers
2014-2019	Carolina Hurricanes
since 2019	Minnesota Wild

Victor Rask (born March 1, 1993 in Leksand ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Minnesota Wild from the National Hockey League since January 2019 and plays for them on the position of the center . With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2017 World Cup .

Career

Victor Rask began his career as a hockey player in his hometown in the youth department of Leksands IF , for whose professional team he made his debut in the HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division, in the 2009/10 season . In his rookie year he remained pointless and punished in eight games. Subsequently, the center was selected in the fourth round of the KHL Junior Draft 2010 as the 89th Dinamo Riga player . Initially, however, he stayed with his home club and increased in the 2010/11 season to eleven scorer points, including five goals, in 37 second division games. Then the elected him Carolina Hurricanes in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in the second round than a total of 42 players. Meanwhile, the attacker had still played for the U20 juniors of the club with which he won Swedish champions of this age group in 2010.

For the 2011/12 season Rask moved to the Calgary Hitmen from the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . In addition, he signed his entry-level contract with the Hurricanes. Initially, the center forward played for the Hitmen in the WHL for two seasons before he was brought into the American Hockey League by Carolina on their farm team , the Charlotte Checkers , during the 2012/13 season . There he also spent the 2013/14 season before he was appointed to the Hurricanes' NHL squad for the following season. There the Swede became a regular player and stayed with the team until January 2019. After he had only scored one goal and prepared five more by January 2019, he was transferred to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for the Swiss Nino Niederreiter .

International

For Sweden , Rask took part in the junior division at the U18 World Junior Championships in 2010 and 2011 . In both tournaments he and his team won the silver medal. At the 2011 tournament he was also voted one of the top three players on his team.

In the World Cup 2015 Rask made his debut in the senior section before it in the World Cup in 2017 with the Tre Kronor won the gold medal.

Achievements and Awards

• 2010 Swedish U20 junior champion with Leksands IF

International

2010 bronze medal at the 2010 World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 bronze medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship 2011 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship

2012 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship 2013 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship 2017 gold medal at the world championship

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	Leksands IF J20	J20 SuperElit		39	22nd	19th	41		35		5	3	2	5		2
2009/10	Leksands IF	Allsvenskan		8th	0	0	0	± 0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Leksands IF J20	J20 SuperElit		13	3	9	12		2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Leksands IF	Allsvenskan		37	5	6th	11	-5	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		64	33	30th	63	+7	21st		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Calgary Hitmen	WHL		37	14th	27	41	+14	16		17th	6th	10	16	+6	10
2012/13	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		10	1	4th	5	+7	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Charlotte Checkers	AHL		76	16	23	39	-3	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		80	11	22nd	33	-14	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		80	21st	27	48	–6	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		82	16	29	45	-10	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		71	14th	17th	31	± 0	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		26th	1	5	6th	-3	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Minnesota Wild	NHL		23	2	1	3	-1	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Minnesota Wild	NHL		43	5	8th	13	+7	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
J20 SuperElit overall				52	25th	28	53		37		5	3	2	5		2
Allsvenskan total				45	5	6th	11	-5	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall				101	47	57	104	+21	37		17th	6th	10	16	+6	10
AHL total				86	17th	27	44	+4	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				405	70	109	179	-27	82		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Sweden at:

World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2010 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2010 U18 World Cup 2010 U18 World Championship 2011

U20 World Cup 2012 U20 World Cup 2013 World Championship 2015 World Championship 2017

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010	Sweden	WHC			6th	1	7th	8th		2
2010	Sweden	WHC			5	0	6th	6th	-1	4th
2010	Sweden	U18 World Cup			6th	3	2	5	+6	0
2011	Sweden	U18 World Cup			6th	2	3	5	+5	4th
2012	Sweden	U20 World Cup			6th	0	1	1	-1	6th
2013	Sweden	U20 World Cup			6th	2	2	4th	-3	4th
2015	Sweden	WM	5th place		8th	3	1	4th	+1	4th
2017	Sweden	WM			10	2	5	7th	+3	0
Juniors overall					35	8th	21st	29		20th
Men overall					18th	5	6th	11	+4	4th

( 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

• Player biography on the Minnesota Wild website
• Victor Rask at eliteprospects.com (English)