Mattias Weinhandl
Mattias Weinhandl ( born June 1, 1980 in Ljungby ) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is under contract with Linköpings HC of the Elitserien since 2007.
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Career
Matthias wine Handl began his career as a hockey player with IF Troja Ljungby -. For the team from the third-tier Division 1, he was active from 1997 to 1999. Then the attacker in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 was selected in the third round as a total 78 players from the New York Islanders. First Weinhandl remained in his native Sweden and played for three years for MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik in the Elitserien, the highest ice hockey league in the country, with whom he 2000 and 2002 was runner-up in years. Before the 2002/ 03 wine Handl was included in the squad of New York's farm team, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League. After he started the season in the AHL, he played most of his first year in North America for the Islanders in the National Hockey League and came to 23 scorer points, including six goals. In the following season was Weinhandl mainly for New York on the ice.
During the lockout in the 2004/ 05 NHL season Weinhandl joined as a free agent for the game years back to his native Sweden to his former club MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik from the Elitserien and was the top scorer in the league. Following the resumption of the operation of the game winger returned in the summer of 2006 to the Islanders back. Because of exceeding the salary cap to dash him against the end of the regular season out of the squad. He was then obliged by the Minnesota Wild, for which he is still 15 times in service until the end of season. The following year Weinhandl was mainly for their AHL farm team, so that he was given Houston Aeros on the ice, on 22 April 2007 the release of a two- year contract in Sweden Linköpings HC. In the 2007 /08 season Weinhandl was with 35 goals for the second time in his career, top scorer in the Elitserien, for which he received the Håkan Loob Trophy. With his goals he was instrumental in reaching the runner-up of his team.
On 23 April 2008 Weinhandl extended his contract with Linköpings prematurely by a further three years until 2012, where he was loaned for the 2008/ 09 season at the HK Dynamo Moscow of the newly formed Continental Hockey League, with whom in 2008 he won the Spengler Cup. In 2010 he then moved on to league rivals SKA St. Petersburg and had there to the Topscorern the league. After the 2011/12 season of the loan contract ended with the SKA and Weinhandl returned to Linköpings HC.
Internationally
For Sweden Weinhandl participated in the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1998, the U20 Junior World Championship in 1999, and the A World Championships in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and the Winter Olympics, 2010. The greatest success at a final at a World Cup was winning the bronze medal in 2002, 2009 and 2010 for Weinhandl. In 2008, he was the fifth best scorer of the tournament and also the Swede with the most points in the tournament.
Eye injury
On 13 November 1999 Weinhandl was during a game between the national teams of Sweden and the Czech Republic seriously injured in the U-20 Four Nations Tournament, as the Czech Michal Trávníček with his hockey stick hit him for a duel in the traps under the visor, with Weinhandl injuries on the forehead and one eye drew upon. In this incident, his vision was reduced to one eye to only 10 percent. Following Trávníček was fined for this deliberate attack by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF with a three -year ban.
Awards and achievements
- 2002 Swedish All- Star Team
- 2002 Elitserien All- Star Game
- 2003 NHL Young Stars Game
- 2005 Top scorer in the Elitserien
- 2008 Håkan Loob Trophy
- 2008 Swedish All- Star Team
- 2008 Spengler Cup win with the HK Dynamo Moscow
- 2009 KHL striker of March
- 2009 KHL striker of the month October
- 2010 KHL All-Star Game
- 2010 Spengler Cup win with the SKA St. Petersburg
- 2011 KHL All-Star Game
Internationally
Career Stats
( 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 )