Christian Berglund

Christian Jonas Berglund ( born March 12, 1980 in Örebro ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is since 2010 at Färjestad BK in the Elitserien under contract.

Career

Christian Berglund began his career as a hockey player in the junior area of ​​the Kristinehamns Hockey team for the first team he in the 1995/96 season his debut in the then third-tier Division 2 was. Then the attacker received a contract with Färjestad BK, for the first time he was in the 1997/98 season in a game of Elitserien on the ice. In the following years, the links Sagittarius could earn a regular place in Färjestad, with whom he was defeated in 2001 only in the Championship Final Djurgårdens IF.

From 2001 to 2004 Berglund played in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils, who had chosen him already in the NHL Entry Draft in 1998 in the second round than a total of 37 players. In his first two seasons with the franchise of the Devils, the Swede ran parallel to their farm team in the American Hockey League, the Albany River Rats on. On 1 March 2004 he was finally transferred to the Florida Panthers, for in ten games, he scored three goals by the end of the 2003/04 season and was a template.

After Berglund was in the 2004/05 season with his former club Färjestad BK again become runner-up in Sweden, he moved to the Rapperswil -Jona Lakers of the Swiss National League A. From 2006 to 2008 was the former youth international at league rivals the Lakers, the SC Bern, under contract, before he returned to the 2008/09 season to the Lakers. After two good seasons in which Berglund about scoring a point per game for the Lakers in the section, he decided to return to Sweden and got a contract with Färjestad BK, with whom he won the Swedish championship in the 2010/11 season.

Internationally

For Sweden, Berglund took part in the U18 European Junior Championships in 1998 and the U20 World Junior Championships in 1999 and 2000.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)