Gabriel Landeskog
Gabriel Ingemar John Landeskog (* November 23, 1992 in Stockholm) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. Since October 2011, he plays for the Colorado Avalanche in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) on the position of the left winger. NHL Entry Draft 2011, he was selected second overall position and managed to jump directly to the NHL squad of Colorado. After an impressive first season, he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best Neuprofi ( Rookie ) and appointed little to the team captain of the franchise from Denver later.
At the international level, he won the Swedish national team at the World Cup 2013, the gold medal.
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Career
Beginnings in Sweden, Ontario Hockey League
Gabriel Landeskog played in his youth time in the hockey department Djurgårdens IF and Djurgården Hockey. From the 2008/ 09 season he came there regularly in the Junior League J20 SuperElit used. In the same season he also completed three games for Djurgårdens professional team in Sweden's highest league, Elitserien, where he scored one assist. He had his first operation at the age of 16 years and 90 days, making him the youngest player ever Djurgårdens.
When CHL Import Draft 2009 Landeskog was selected by the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League in third overall position. However, the player would accrue only for the Kitchener Rangers, because he was convinced most of their youth development program. The Rangers drafteten turn Tomáš Tatar. After Landeskog told you not to be playing for the Whalers, but to continue to go for Djurgården on the ice, both OHL teams worked out a transfer in which the draft rights for the two players were exchanged. In addition, the Whalers received two second-round draft picks.
Landeskog settled for a move to North America and completed in his first season with the Kitchener Rangers 61 games in which he scored 24 goals and 46 points. In the following play-offs Kitchener defeated the Saginaw Spirit and the London Knights before the Rangers in the Conference Finals the Windsor Spitfires documents. Landeskog scored in 20 play-off games of 23 points, more than any other OHL rookie. In October 2010, Landeskog became the first European team captain of the Rangers. In the 2010/11 season, the striker scored 66 points in 53 games in the play-offs divided the team in the first round against the Plymouth Whalers from.
Jump to the NHL
The Swede was, in the first round selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 2011, an annual event in which teams of the National Hockey League can secure the rights to promising young players at a total second position from the Colorado Avalanche. On July 28, 2011 Landeskog signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Colorado Avalanche. Landeskog could be recommended for a place in the NHL squad Avalanche pre-season immediately. On 8 October 2011, the winger played his first NHL game, two games out with a game of Avalanche against the Columbus Blue Jackets he achieved his first NHL goal. He became the youngest Swede NHL history who achieved a scoring through this gate.
The offensive player was appointed in February 2012 as the NHL rookie of the month after this month he was able to achieve seven goals and 13 total points scorer in the twelve parts of the Colorado Avalanche. Gabriel Landeskog finished his rookie season as the third-best points scorer of the avalanche; the league was his 52 scored points scorer, the most among all rookies. The Swede won in his debut season in the National Hockey League by his defensive play. So he had the league among all rookies the second best plus / minus value ( 20); within the team he was in this Katetgorie among all players in the first place. Off the ice, stood out his leadership qualities as well as their physical and mental maturity. For these achievements, he was honored following the 2011/12 season with the Calder Memorial Trophy, which is awarded annually to the best rookie of the National Hockey League.
On September 4, 2012 Gabriel Landeskog was named team captain of the Colorado Avalanche. The Swede was the time of appointment with 19 years and 286 days, the youngest captain of an NHL franchises of all time. A month later he signed on the basis of the lockout before the start of the NHL season 2012/13 on a limited first two months contract with Djurgårdens IF, which was not extended after its discontinuation. After the NHL resumed their game operation again in January 2013, he suffered on matchday in the game against the San Jose Sharks after a check by Brad Stuart a traumatic brain injury and had to stop from playing the following 11 games. Overall graduated Landeskog in his second NHL season 36 games, thereby pass him 17 points scorer.
Before the start of season 2013/14 Landeskog signed a new seven-year contract, which has validity until 2021 and is rewarded with 39 million U.S. dollars.
Internationally
Gabriel Landeskog represented the Swedish national team for the first time at an international tournament at the U18 Junior World Championship 2009, where the team was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Russian selection. Landeskog came in all six games of Sweden for use, scoring four goals. The players also took part in the U20 World Youth Championship in 2011, completed due to an ankle injury but only one game in which he scored one goal and one assist. His first try in Sweden Mr. selection had Landeskog at the 2012 World Championships, where he once ran aground as assistant captain of the Tre Kronor and his team was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Czech selection.
At the World Championships in 2013 in Stockholm and Helsinki, he was again part of the national team and won with this after a win in the final against the Swiss team gold medal.
Awards and achievements
- 2010 OHL First All - Rookie team
- 2012 NHL All -Star Game Super Skills Competition
- 2012 NHL Rookie of the Month February
- 2012 Calder Memorial Trophy
- 2012 NHL All- Rookie Team
Internationally
- 2013 Gold Medal at the World Championships
- 2014 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )