Viktor Ekbom

Viktor Ekbom
Date of birth	June 1, 1989
place of birth	Falköping , Sweden
size	191 cm
Weight	97 kg
position	defender
number	#8th
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2009 , 6th lap, 181st position Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
2004-2007	Skövde IK
2007-2011	Linköpings HC
2007-2010	IK Oskarshamn
2010-2011	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2011–2012	Tappara Tampere
2012-2013	EHC Red Bull Munich
2013-2018	Örebro HK
since 2018	Frölunda HC

Viktor Ekbom (born June 1, 1989 ) is a Swedish ice hockey player ( defender ) who has been under contract with Frölunda HC in the Svenska Hockeyligan since 2018 .

Career

Ekbom began his career at Skövde IK in the J20 Elit, a junior ice hockey league in Sweden . In the 2005/06 season he was first used by Skövde IK in Division 1 , the third highest Swedish ice hockey league.

In the 2008/09 season he played with Linköpings HC for the first time in the Elitserien , the highest Swedish ice hockey league . Ekbom was selected in the sixth round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in 181st place by the Pittsburgh Penguins . Between 2007 and 2010 he also played for IK Oskarshamn in the second highest Swedish professional league, HockeyAllsvenskan . At the end of the 2010/11 season he completed an amateur try-out with the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the AHL , the farm team of the National Hockey League franchise Pittsburgh Penguins. Ekbom remained goalless in his three games there.

The Pittsburgh Penguins waived on May 31, 2011 on their rights to Ekbom acquired in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft , which would have enabled him to participate in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft . Instead, Ekbom signed a two-year contract with the Finnish SM-liiga club Tappara , where he only played in the 2011/12 season.

In 2012 Ekbom was signed for one year by EHC Red Bull Munich to replace Jens Olsson, who was returning to Sweden .

International

With the Swedish U20 national team , Ekbom won the silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship in 2009 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2019 Champions Hockey League win with the Frölunda HC

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2004/05	Skövde IK J20	J20 elite		37	3	3	6th	24
2005/06	Skövde IK J20	J20 elite			3	2	5	5
2005/06	Skövde IK	Division 1		17th	1	1	2	0	+1
2006/07	Skövde IK	Division 1		36	3	14th	17th	30th	+30
2007/08	Linköpings J20	J20 SuperElit		25th	3	7th	10	10	+13		5	0	2	2	6th	+4
2007/08	IK Oskarshamn	HockeyAllsvenskan		9	0	0	0	2	± 0
2008/09	Linköpings HC	Elitserien		14th	0	1	1	6th	−6		5	0	0	0	2	−1
2008/09	IK Oskarshamn	HockeyAllsvenskan		29	2	4th	6th	22nd	−7
2009/10	IK Oskarshamn	HockeyAllsvenskan		3	2	0	2	2	−2
2009/10	Linköpings HC	Elitserien		47	0	2	2	16	−1		12	0	0	0	8th	+1
2010/11	Linköpings HC	Elitserien		49	0	6th	6th	10	+3		1	0	0	0	0	−1
2010/11	Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins	AHL		3	0	0	0	0	± 0
2011/12	Tappara	SM-liiga		44	1	3	4th	44	−16
2012/13	EHC Red Bull Munich	DEL		38	4th	6th	10	8th	0
2013/14	Örebro HK	SHL		53	2	4th	6th	22nd			-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Örebro HK	SHL		55	1	12	13	30th			6th	0	1	1	0
2015/16	Örebro HK	SHL		48	1	8th	9	16			2	0	0	0	0
2016/17	Örebro HK	SHL		34	1	4th	5	20th			-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Örebro HK	SHL		48	4th	6th	10	53			-	-	-	-	-	-

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2009	Sweden	U20 World Cup		6th	0	2	2	2	+4

( 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

• Viktor Ekbom at hockeydb.com (English)
• Viktor Ekbom at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ post-gazette.com Penguins relinquish rights to prospects Bathgate (English)
2. ↑ Tappara Swedish defender confirmed to Tappara ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Finnish) 
3. ↑ del.org Munich brings Sweden Ekbom ( memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.