Ludwig Blomstrand

Ludwig Blomstrand ( born March 8, 1993, Uppsala ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is since 2013 in the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League contract. He plays in parallel for their farm team, the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League and the Kalamazoo Wings of the ECHL.

Career

Ludwig Blomstrand began his career as a hockey player in the junior department of Almtuna in which he was active until 2009. Subsequently, the winger moved to the youth department of Djurgårdens IF, for its first team he in the 2011/12 season his debut in the Elitserien, the highest Swedish league, gave. Previously, he had been already selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2011 in the fourth round as a total of 120 players from the Vancouver Canucks. After the relegation of his club in the HockeyAllsvenskan Blomstrand was transferred within the League to its former youth club Almtuna. There, he scored 19 points in 30 games overall.

On March 18, 2013, the winger signed a three-year contract starting with the Vancouver Canucks and then moved to North America. There he was first with the Chicago Wolves, the farm team of the Canucks, used in the American Hockey League. The 2013/14 season he started in the AHL, where he ran aground on the new farm team of the Canucks, the Utica Comets. After six games, however, he was ordered to the third-rate ECHL Kalamazoo Wings to.

Internationally

For Sweden Blomstrand took part in the U18 World Youth Championship 2011, where he won the silver medal with his team.

Awards and achievements

• 2011 Silver medal at the U18 World Youth Championship