Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg ( born October 9, 1980 in Njurunda, community Sundsvall ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward who plays for the Detroit Red Wings in the National Hockey League since 2002.
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Career
Henrik Zetterberg began his career in the youth department of the Njurunda SK. In 1997, he joined the youth team Timrå IK and has been appointed in the same season in the first team that played in the second-rate Allsvenskan. Already in his second year he established himself in the pros and scored 15 goals in 37 league games and prepared another 13 before. The Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League then secured his rights, as they selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 in the seventh round at position 210.
But Zetterberg was at first in Sweden and he succeeded with Timrå in the season 1999/2000 the rise in the prime Elitserien what he in the ten matches the promotion round played a big part with ten goals. Also in the Elitserien he summarized fast walk, was the best scorer of his team, finishing in fourth place in the league -wide scorer list. For his excellent performance, he was awarded as the best rookie in the league. And internationally, he celebrated his first success with the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships.
2001/ 02 Zetterberg was again the best point of his team, but Timrå occupied knocked off the last place in the Elitserien. Nevertheless, he was awarded the Guldpucken as the best Swedish ice hockey player of the year in 2002 and was again able to win the bronze medal with the Swedish national team 2002 World Cup. In addition, he came to his first participation at the Olympic Winter Games.
In summer 2002, Zetterberg finally moved to the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL, where he played together with the young star Pavel Datsyuk and veteran Brett Hull in a row. He managed a good debut season with 22 goals and 22 templates and he was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the NHL. However, the Red Wings in the first playoff round failed due to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Zetterberg was able to play for the Swedish national team at the World Championships, where she won the silver medal.
In the 2003 / 04 season, Zetterberg was injured just 61 games contest I won up to a point to repeat last year 's performance scorer. In the fall of 2004 he went back to Sweden to Timrå IK, as the NHL season was canceled in 2004/05 because of the lockout. Zetterberg led his team to the best result of the season in its history and was even with 19 goals and 31 Assists the top scorer in the league.
In 2005, he returned to Detroit back and led, together with his strike partners Pavel Datsyuk and Brendan Shanahan and compatriot and defender Nicklas Lidstrom, the Red Wings to the unchallenged first place in the regular season and steered his previously best result of the season with 85 points in in 77 games. However, the Red Wings eliminated in the first round, contributed six goals in the Zetterberg, against outsiders from Edmonton Oilers. Nevertheless, it was the most successful year so far for the Swede, who was with his national Olympic champion and world champion.
In autumn 2006, Zetterberg was appointed as one of the alternative captains of Red Wings, but was unable to repeat his good performance as he scored only three points in the first twelve games of the season at the beginning of the 2006/07 season. Thereafter, however, it stabilized again and was invited for the first time in January 2007 NHL All-Star Game, but had to cancel because of an injury. The following month, he was then the dominant player in the league when he scored 25 points in eleven games, including his first hat-trick. In addition to two awards as best player of the week in a row, he has also been named best player of the month of February. However, he was injured shortly thereafter and again had to pause for over a month, so that it was fit for the playoffs again until. With the Red Wings, he moved from one to the final of the Western Conference, to which he contributed six goals and eight assists, but lost there to eventual Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks.
At the beginning of the 2007/ 08 Zetterberg led the scorers list of the NHL and was also awarded the best player of the first season month. On the basis of good performance of Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk strike partner and the defensive team, the Red Wings were able to quickly settle from the other teams in the league. However, because of back problems he had in late December five games pause and another back injury prevented again to participate in the NHL All-Star Game. After surviving the injury, he was able to pick up where his good performances and presented with 43 goals, 49 assists and 92 points scorer in all three categories new personal records. He also finished fifth in the league scorers and was sixth- best scorer.
In the playoffs, Zetterberg is developed into the most important player on the team and led the team to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they faced the Pittsburgh Penguins. There he made , especially in the fourth game by his defensive play quite a stir when he with two players remained together with the defenders Nicklas Lidstrom and Niklas Kronwall outnumbered without conceding a goal and thus provided protection to third straight win in the series. Zetterberg was finally, who scored the winning goal for the Stanley Cup win in the sixth game, had 13 goals and 14 Assist best scorer of the playoffs and was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as only the second European after Lidstrom most valuable player of the playoffs. With its 27 scorer points, he also made it to a new franchise record with the most goals points, the previously Steve Yzerman and Sergei Fedorov held with 25 points.
For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, the center forward has been committed by the Swiss club EV train in October 2012.
At the Olympic Games in 2014 he won the silver medal with the Swedish national team.
Henrik Zetterberg is regarded as a good scorer, which also has very good defensive capabilities and can be used on the wing and center position. Due to its late draft position in the NHL Entry Draft 1999 he was named as one of the most underrated players in the NHL.
Awards and achievements
- 2001 Elitserien Rookie of the Year
- 2002 Guldpucken
- 2003 NHL Rookie of the Month February
- 2003 NHL All- Rookie Team
- 2005 top scorer of the Elitserien main round
- 2007 NHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
- 2007 NHL Player of the Month in February
- 2007 Viking Award
- 2007 NHL Player of the Month October
- 2008 NHL All-Star Game ( injury-related cancellation )
- 2008 Stanley Cup win with the Detroit Red Wings
- 2008 Conn Smythe Trophy
- 2008 NHL Second All-Star Team
- 2008 Viking Award
- 2013 NHL Foundation Player Award
- 2013 Viking Award
Internationally
- 2006 Gold medal at the World Championships
- 2008 Inclusion in the Triple Gold Club
- 2012 Best original donor of the World Cup
- 2012 All - Star Team of the World Cup
- 2014 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Sweden at:
- U18 European Junior Championships 1998
- U20 Junior World Championship 2000
- World Cup 2001
- 2002 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2002
- 2003 World Cup
- World Cup of Hockey 2004
- World Championship 2005
- 2006 Winter Olympics
- World Cup 2006
- 2010 Winter Olympics
( 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 )