Viktor Stålberg

Viktor Stålberg
Date of birth	17th January 1986
place of birth	Gothenburg , Sweden
size	190 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2006 , 6th round, 161st position Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
until 2005	IF Mölndal Hockey
2005-2006	Frölunda HC
2006-2009	University of Vermont
2009-2010	Toronto Maple Leafs
2010-2013	Chicago Blackhawks
2013-2015	Nashville Predators
2015-2016	New York Rangers
2016-2017	Carolina Hurricanes
2017	Ottawa Senators
2017-2018	EV train
2018-2019	HK Awangard Omsk
since 2019	Friborg-Gottéron

Viktor Stålberg (born January 17, 1986 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has been under contract with Friborg-Gottéron in the National League since May 2019 .

Career

Viktor Stålberg began his career as an ice hockey player in the junior division of IF Mölndal Hockey , for whose first team he made his debut in the fourth class Division 2 in the 2003/04 season . With the team, the attacker rose straight away to Division 1 , in which he spent the entire 2005/06 season, before he ran up for the U20 juniors of Frölunda HC from the Elitserien the following year . In the 2006 NHL Entry Draft , Stålberg was selected in the sixth round as a total of 161 players by the Toronto Maple Leafs , but spent the following three seasons in the team of the University of Vermont .

Before the 2009/10 season , the Swede received a two-year contract with the Maple Leafs. On October 1, 2009, the left-shooter made his debut for Toronto in the National Hockey League at the start of the season in the game against the Montréal Canadiens . He was also used by the Toronto Marlies , the Leafs' farm team, in the AHL. On June 30, 2010, Stålberg was given in a transfer deal to the Chicago Blackhawks .

In July 2013, the Swede signed a four-year deal worth $ 12 million with the Nashville Predators . After this was ended prematurely by the Predators in July 2015 (buy-out ), Stålberg joined the New York Rangers . After his one-year contract there expired, he signed one with the Carolina Hurricanes in July 2016 . The Hurricanes, however, handed the attacker over to the Ottawa Senators in February 2017 and in return received a third-round vote for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft .

The Swede ended the 2016/17 season in Ottawa, but did not receive a further contract there. He then returned to Europe and signed a two-year contract with EV Zug from the Swiss National League in July 2017 . At the end of October 2018 Stålberg moved to HK Awangard Omsk in the Continental Hockey League and reached the final of the Gagarin Cup with Awangard , in which Awangard was defeated by HK CSKA Moscow . He then returned to Switzerland when he signed a contract with Friborg-Gottéron .

On an international level, he made his debut for the Swedish national team at the 2012 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

• 2004 Promotion to Division 1 with IF Mölndal Hockey
• 2009 NCAA East First All-American Team
• 2009 Hockey East First All-Star Team
• 2013 Stanley Cup win with the Chicago Blackhawks

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2017/18 season

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2003/04	IF Mölndal Hockey	J20 elite		18th	25th	10	35			-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	IF Mölndal Hockey	Division 2			5	7th	12			-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	IF Mölndal Hockey	J20 elite		11	16	7th	23			-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	IF Mölndal Hockey	Division 1		29	6th	9	15th	54		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Frölunda HC	J20 SuperElit		41	27	26th	53	89		7th	6th	5	11	6th
2006/07	University of Vermont	Hockey East		39	7th	8th	15th	53
2007/08	University of Vermont	Hockey East		39	10	13	23	34
2008/09	University of Vermont	Hockey East		39	24	22nd	46	32
2008/09	Toronto Marlies	AHL		-	-	-	-	-		2	0	1	1	0
2009/10	Toronto Marlies	AHL		39	12	21st	33	36		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		40	9	5	14th	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		77	12	12	24	43		7th	1	0	1	5
2011/12	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		79	22nd	21st	43	34		6th	0	2	2	8th
2012/13	Frölunda HC	Elitserien		11	7th	5	12	10		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Atlant Mytishchi	KHL		14th	3	7th	10	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		47	9	14th	23	25th		19th	0	3	3	6th
2013/14	Nashville Predators	NHL		70	8th	10	18th	32		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Nashville Predators	NHL		25th	2	8th	10	18th		6th	1	2	3	0
2014/15	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		20th	11	6th	17th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	New York Rangers	NHL		75	9	11	20th	22nd		5	0	0	0	6th
2016/17	Carolina Hurricanes	NHL		57	9	3	12	33		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		18th	2	2	4th	8th		17th	0	2	2	2
2017/18	EV train	NLA		46	22nd	28	50	18th		5	1	3	4th	4th
J20 SuperElit overall				41	27	26th	53	89		7th	6th	5	11	6th
NCAA overall				117	41	43	84	119
AHL total				59	23	27	50	50		2	9	1	1	0
NHL overall				488	82	86	168	245		60	2	9	11	27

International

Represented Sweden at:

• World Championship 2012

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2012	Sweden	WM	6th place		8th	3	1	4th	2
Men overall					8th	3	1	4th	2

( 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

On October 2, 2017, Viktor Stålberg and his model friend Mathilda Jansson became parents of a son, whom the couple calls Vincent.

His brother Sebastian Stålberg (* 1990) is also a professional ice hockey player.

Web links

Commons : Viktor Stålberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Viktor Stålberg at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Viktor Stålberg at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viktor Stalberg to the EVZ. (No longer available online.) Evz.ch, July 10, 2017, archived from the original on November 16, 2017 ; Retrieved July 11, 2017 . 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.  
2. ↑ David Desharnais and Viktor Stålberg to Friborg-Gottéron. In: gotteron.ch. April 26, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 .