William Nylander (ice hockey player)

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William Nylander
Date of birth May 1, 1996
place of birth Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position Center / right wing
number # 88
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2013 , 2nd round, 60th position
HK Awangard Omsk
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 8th position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
2008-2009 Team Maryland
2010-2011 Chicago Mission
2011–2012 SDE HF
2012-2014 Södertälje SK
2013-2015 MODO hockey
2013 Rögle BK
2015-2016 Toronto Marlies
since 2016 Toronto Maple Leafs

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / file type

William Andrew Michael Junior Nylander Altelius ( William Nylander for short ; born May 1, 1996 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Swedish - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League since August 2014 . With the Swedish national team , he won the gold medal at the 2017 World Cup . His father Michael and brother Alexander Nylander are also professional ice hockey players.

Career

Nylander at the AHL All-Star Classic (2016)

Nylander was born in Calgary, Canada . His father Michael played there between 1995 and 1998 for the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League . Nylander stayed with his family on the North American continent until 2011 before they returned to Europe and he hired at SDE HF . In 2012 he moved to Södertälje SK in HockeyAllsvenskan , where he made his professional debut on February 14, 2013. In his first professional game he played alongside his father Michael and scored his first assist with a goal by Johan Jonsson . In the summer of 2013 the striker finally moved to MODO Hockey Ornsköldsvik in Svenska Hockeyligan , who immediately loaned him to Rögle BK and later to Södertälje in Allsvenskan.

In August 2014 he received an NHL entry contract from the Toronto Maple Leafs from the National Hockey League (NHL), but continued to play on loan with MODO Hockey until January 2015. He then joined the farm team of the Maple Leafs, the Toronto Marlies from the American Hockey League (AHL), and got 32 scorer points in 37 remaining games of the season. After another year alternating between AHL and NHL, Nylander established himself in the Maple Leafs' NHL squad with the start of the 2016/17 season. He led the rookie scorer list of the NHL in the first month of the season with eleven points from nine games and was named as the NHL rookie of the month for October. He was awarded this prize again in March 2017. In total, Nylander scored 61 points in his first full NHL season, placing himself third on the rookie scorer list and was also part of a historic year of the Maple Leafs, which for the first time had three with Auston Matthews (1) and Mitchell Marner (4) Players among the top four rookies of a season from one team.

After the 2017/18 season, his entry-level contract with the Maple Leafs expired on July 1, 2018, so that he was henceforth a restricted free agent . Until the beginning of the following season 2018/19, the players and team could not agree on a new contract, so Nylander paused for the time being and trained in Europe. It was not until December 1, 2018, the deadline for such contracts, that the Swede signed a new six-year contract in Toronto, which should bring him an average annual salary of almost seven million US dollars.

International

On November 12, 2012, the International Ice Hockey Federation decided that the Canadian-born Nylander was eligible to play for Sweden. He then took part with the Swedish team in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2013 , where his team won the title. He also appeared at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in 2013 and the U18 Junior Ice Hockey World Championships in 2013 and 2014 .

At the 2015 World Cup , he had his first international appearances at U20 level. This was only followed by another at the U20 World Cup , where he injured himself in the first game after a check by Swiss Chris Egli and was unable to play the rest of the tournament.

At the 2017 World Cup , Nylander made his debut for the Swedish senior team and won the gold medal with them. He was also the best scorer of his team, recognized as the most valuable player of the tournament and voted into the All-Star Team .

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 2017 World Championship All-Star Team
  • 2017 best goalscorer of the world championship (together with Nikita Kutscherow and Nikita Gussew )
  • 2019 top scorer of the world championship
  • 2019 best assists in the world championship
  • 2019 World Championship All-Star Team

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
2010/11 Chicago Mission MWEHL 29 34 27 61 8th - - - - -
2011/12 Södertälje SK J20 J20 SuperElit 8th 1 3 4th 2 4th 0 5 5 2
2012/13 Södertälje SK Allsvenskan 8th 4th 2 6th 2 10 2 1 3 4th
2012/13 Södertälje SK J20 J20 SuperElit 27 15th 28 43 14th - - - - -
2013/14 MODO Hockey J20 J20 SuperElit 3 0 3 3 4th 5 3 5 8th 2
2013/14 MODO hockey SHL 22nd 1 6th 7th 6th - - - - -
2013/14 Rögle BK Allsvenskan 18th 4th 4th 8th 10 - - - - -
2013/14 Södertälje SK Allsvenskan 17th 11 8th 19th 6th - - - - -
2014/15 MODO hockey SHL 21st 8th 12 20th 6th - - - - -
2014/15 Toronto Marlies AHL 37 14th 18th 32 4th 5 0 3 3 0
2015/16 Toronto Marlies AHL 38 18th 27 45 10 14th 7th 4th 11 2
2015/16 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 22nd 6th 7th 13 4th - - - - -
2016/17 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 81 22nd 39 61 32 6th 1 3 4th 2
2017/18 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 20th 41 61 10 7th 1 3 4th 0
2018/19 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 54 7th 20th 27 16 7th 1 2 3 2
2019/20 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 68 31 28 59 12 5 2 2 4th 0
J20 SuperElit overall 38 16 34 50 20th 9 3 10 13 4th
Allsvenskan total 43 19th 14th 33 18th 10 2 1 3 4th
SHL total 43 9 18th 27 12 2 0 0 0 0
AHL total 75 32 45 77 14th 19th 7th 7th 14th 2
NHL overall 307 86 135 221 74 25th 5 10 15th 4th

International

Represented Sweden at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2013 Sweden U17-WHC 1st place, gold 6th 2 8th 10 2
2013 Sweden U18 World Cup 5th place 5 2 1 3 2
2013 Sweden HIMT 7th place 4th 4th 2 6th 4th
2014 Sweden U18 World Cup 4th Place 7th 6th 10 16 0
2015 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 7th 3 7th 10 0
2016 Sweden U20 World Cup 4th Place 1 1 0 1 0
2017 Sweden WM 1st place, gold 10 7th 7th 14th 2
2019 Sweden WM 5th place 8th 5 13 18th 0
Juniors overall 30th 18th 28 46 8th
Men overall 18th 12 20th 32 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 )

Web links

Commons : William Nylander  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NHL vet, top prospect son skate together in Sweden. In: si.com. June 7, 2094, accessed November 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Maple Leafs Agree to Terms With William Nylander. nhl.com, December 1, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ OK to play for Sweden. In: webarchive.iihf.com. November 21, 2012, accessed November 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Chris Egli and Channeled Anger . ( suedostschweiz.ch [accessed on January 29, 2017]).
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Squad of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Nylander, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nylander Altelius, William Andrew Michael Junior (full name); Nylander Altelius, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada