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For the Swedish ice hockey player born in 1994 The Real Robert "Bobby" Grimaldi (ice hockey, born 1994), see Erik Karlsson (disambiguation).

Erik Karlsson
Karlsson in November 2011.
Born (1990-05-31) May 31, 1990 (age 34)
Mimico, Sweden
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Right
NHL team
Former teams		 Ottawa Senators
Jokerit
Frölunda HC
National team  Sweden
NHL draft 15th overall, 2008
Ottawa Senators
Playing career 2008–present

Erik Sven Gunnar Karlsson (born May 31, 1990) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. Karlsson is a member of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 15th overall by the Senators in the first round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. Karlsson was the 2012 winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman.

Playing career

Karlsson made his Elitserien debut for Frölunda HC on March 1, 2008, recording 8:48 of ice time during a sold out home game in Scandinavium, against league leaders HV71. Karlsson scored the game-winning goal, assisted by Tomi Kallio and Magnus Kahnberg, with a slapshot off a faceoff, in overtime during a man advantage. The win secured a playoff berth for Frölunda with three games remaining of the regular season.

Karlsson finished the season with Frölunda's J20 team playing in the J20 SuperElit playoffs, where Frölunda took home the Anton Cup when they won two to one in games against Brynäs IF in the Swedish Junior Ice Hockey Championship final.

Karlsson playing for Jokerit during the 2012–13 NHL lockout.

Prior to the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, Karlsson was ranked fourth among European skaters by the NHL's Central Scouting Service.[1] He was drafted 15th overall by the Ottawa Senators, in front of their hometown fans at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario. The selection was made by Ottawa's captain Daniel Alfredsson, a native of Gothenburg, who played for Frölunda before entering the NHL. Ottawa's general manager, Bryan Murray, traded Ottawa's first round pick, 18th overall, and their third round pick in 2009 to the Nashville Predators for the Predators' first round pick, 15th overall, to ensure that no other team would pick Karlsson before them.

A few weeks before the 2008–09 Elitserien season premiere, Frölunda announced that Karlsson was brought up to the senior team as a regular roster player.[2]

In September 2009, Karlsson attended the Ottawa Senators training camp with a chance at joining the squad even at junior age. On September 29, 2009, the Senators announced that Karlsson had made the team's roster and would start the 2009–10 season in Ottawa.[3] However, after struggling in nine regular season games with Ottawa, Karlsson was assigned to the Binghamton Senators. On November 27, 2009, exactly a month after being sent down, Karlsson was recalled from Binghamton. He would score his first NHL goal against Minnesota's Niklas Bäckström in a 4–1 win for Ottawa on December 19, 2009, and remain in the NHL for the remainder of the season and play in all of Ottawa's playoff games.

Karlsson was selected to participate in the 2011 NHL All-Star Game, set for January 30, 2011, at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina,[4] having recorded 25 points in 41 games.

The 2011–12 season saw Karlsson continue his development. On December 16, 2011, with his third assist of the night, Karlsson registered his 100th regular season NHL point (in 168 games) in a game against the rival Pittsburgh Penguins.[5] Karlsson was the NHL's leading vote-getter in All-Star voting,[6] receiving 939,951 fan votes and becoming one of four Senators' players selected to partake in the 59th National Hockey League All-Star Game. Karlsson finished the season as the leading scorer among NHL defensemen, leading second place Dustin Byfuglien and Brian Campbell by 25 points. Karlsson was being mentioned as a Norris Trophy candidate, if not the favorite for the award.[7][8]

On June 19, 2012, Karlsson signed a seven-year contract extension with the Senators worth a reported $45.5 million.[9]

On June 20, 2012, Karlsson was announced as the winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman, beating Zdeno Chára of the Boston Bruins and Shea Weber of the Nashville Predators. He became the second Swede to win the award (after 7 time winner Nicklas Lidström), joining the ranks of Hall of Famers Bobby Orr and Denis Potvin as the only players to win the award under the age of 23.

Following surgery just three months earlier to repair a lacerated Achilles tendon, Karlsson logged nearly 40 minutes in a 2-1 double overtime win over the Penguins in game three of their second round series.

During the 2012–13 NHL lockout Karlsson signed with Jokerit of the Finnish SM-liiga. He received a one game suspension for allegedly throwing his stick at a referee following a game on December 8, 2012.[10] He finished his stint in Jokerit with 9 goals and 25 assists (34 points) in 30 games, leading all defencemen in scoring. Once the lockout ended and the NHL season commenced, Karlsson promptly recorded a goal and two assists as Ottawa defeated the Winnipeg Jets 4–1 in their season opener.[11] On February 13, 2013, Karlsson's Achilles tendon was lacerated when Pittsburgh Penguins' forward Matt Cooke had his skate inadvertently land on the back of Karlsson's left leg,[12] requiring surgery and taking him out of Ottawa's lineup indefinitely.[13] Cooke has been suspended several times in the past for much criticized incidents resulting in injury to opposing players, but was not suspended for this incident.[14][15][16] At the time of the injury, Karlsson led all NHL defencemen with six goals. Though initial estimates had him out of the lineup for 4 – 6 months, Karlsson returned to the Ottawa lineup against the Washington Capitals on April 25, 2013, ten weeks to the day after the injury occurred.[17]

International play

Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Representing Sweden Sweden
Winter Olympics
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Cologne
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Ottawa

Karlsson was selected as the tournament's best defenceman at the 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships.[18] He was the tournament's plus/minus leader with a plus eight rating,[19] and he led team Sweden in assists, finishing third overall in the tournament, with seven in six games,[20] which also tied him for first place in defencemen scoring.[21] During the 2008 U20 4-Nations tournament which Sweden won, Karlsson scored one goal and one assist which tied him with David Rundblad, Viktor Ekbom and Tim Erixon as Sweden's defenceman scoring leader.[22] At the 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Karlsson was selected to the all-star team,[23] and as the tournament's best defenceman.[24] With two goals and seven assists in six games he led all Swedish players in points,[25] and was tied for the tournament lead among defencemen.[26]

Karlsson played at the 2010 World Championships and was the highest scoring defenseman for Sweden[27] with one goal and three assists in nine games.

Karlsson tied for 4th in team scoring with Senators teammate Daniel Alfredsson at the 2012 World Championship with 7 points and led all Swedish defensemen in that category.[28] He also finished tied for 5th in points and tied 3rd in goals by defensemen overall in the tournament.[29]

At the 2014 Olympic Tournament held in Sochi, Karlsson led all players with 8 points and was tied for second in goals. On February 21, 2014, Karlsson's scored a powerplay goal in the semi-final against Finland to earn Team Sweden a spot in the Gold Medal Final against Canada. The Swedes would later lose in the final by a score of 3-0. Along with a Silver Medal, Karlsson was named the Best Defenseman of the tournament and was selected to the All-Star team.[30]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2006–07 Södertälje SK J20 10 2 8 10 8 — — — — —
2007–08 Frölunda HC J20 38 13 24 37 68 5 1 0 1 4
2007–08 Frölunda HC SHL 7 1 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 0
2008–09 Frölunda HC J20 1 0 2 2 2 — — — — —
2008–09 Borås HC Allsv 7 0 1 1 14 — — — — —
2008–09 Frölunda HC SHL 45 5 5 10 10 11 1 2 3 24
2009–10 Binghamton Senators AHL 12 0 11 11 22 — — — — —
2009–10 Ottawa Senators NHL 60 5 21 26 24 6 1 5 6 4
2010–11 Ottawa Senators NHL 75 13 32 45 50 — — — — —
2011–12 Ottawa Senators NHL 81 19 59 78 42 7 1 0 1 4
2012–13 Jokerit SM-l 30 9 25 34 24 — — — — —
2012–13 Ottawa Senators NHL 17 6 8 14 8 10 1 7 8 6
2013–14 Ottawa Senators NHL 82 20 54 74 36 — — — — —
NHL totals 315 63 174 237 160 23 3 12 15 14

International

Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM
2008 Sweden Jr. WJC U18 6 0 7 7 4
2009 Sweden Jr. WJC 6 2 7 9 0
2010 Sweden WC 9 1 3 4 2
2012 Sweden WC 8 3 4 7 2
2014 Sweden Oly 6 4 4 8 0
Junior int'l totals 35 6 22 28 4
Senior int'l totals 24 8 11 19 4

Style of play

Karlsson is an offensive defenceman.

Bobby Orr has commented that Karlsson is a fast skater, and that Karlsson's coach needs to let him play to his strengths to be effective, seeing similarities to Paul Coffey;[31]

"I want to say one thing about the coach and whoever is allowing him to do this and I've been saying this forever: You get a guy who can skate like that, let him go, for god's sakes.

He'll get caught. I got caught. The players understand how he plays. They accept it. He's fast enough to get back a lot of times. You have kids coming along where [the coach says] shoot the puck up the glass and shoot it in.

The coach is letting [Karlsson] do it and since they've allowed him to do it, this kid has been unbelievable. But, let him do it. That's how he is most effective. Is he gonna make mistakes? Yup. Is he gonna get caught? Yup. But the pluses are going to outweigh the minuses.

There are probably some coaches who wouldn't let him go like he does. They let me go. They let Coffey go. I couldn’t imagine playing any other way and I can’t imagine young Erik playing any other way, either."

HHOF defenceman Bobby Orr[31]

Awards

International

Award Year(s) awarded
WJC U18 Best Defenceman 2008[18]
WJC All-Star Team 2009[23]
WJC Best Defenceman 2009[24]
Olympic All-Star Team 2014[30]
Olympic Best Defenceman 2014[30]

NHL

Award Year(s) awarded
NHL All-Star Game 2011, 2012
James Norris Memorial Trophy 2012
NHL First All-Star Team 2012
Viking Award 2012

Records and achievements

Milestones

  • Drafted 15th overall in the 2008 NHL Draft by the Ottawa Senators.
  • Played his first NHL regular season game on October 3, 2009, against the New York Rangers, and also recorded his first NHL point, an assist.
  • Scored his first NHL goal on December 19, 2009, against Niklas Bäckström of the Minnesota Wild.
  • Awarded the 2011–12 James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman on June 20, 2012.
  • Silver medal at 2014 Sochi Olympics.
  • Led all defencemen at the 2014 Sochi Olympics in points, tied for first among the tournament with Phil Kessel.

Records

  • In 2011–12, Karlsson set a new Senators' franchise record for points in a season by a defenceman (previously held by Norm Maciver) with 78. In the same season he tied Steve Duchesne for the Senators franchise record for most goals in a season by a defenseman with 19.

References

  1. ^ "European Skaters". National Hockey League. 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
  2. ^ Gyllander, Peter (August 25, 2008). "#65 Erik Karlsson till A-truppen" (in Swedish). Frölunda HC. Retrieved September 4, 2008.
  3. ^ "Battle just beginning for new Sens". cbssportsline.com. January 8, 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
  4. ^ Brodie, Rob (January 11, 2011). "Karlsson eager to shine with NHL's brightest stars". Ottawa Senators. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  5. ^ Nordström, Gunnar (December 17, 2011). "Sex poäng av Ottawas svenskduo - NHL - Allt om NHL, svenskarna och stjärnorna!". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved December 17, 2011.
  6. ^ http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/7427747/2012-nhl-all-star-game-starters-four-ottawa-senators-one-toronto-maple-leaf-one-boston-bruin Fans vote in four Senators All-Stars
  7. ^ Pang gets Sens fans all a Twitter http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2012/03/28/19558946.html
  8. ^ Ottawa Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson, Norris Trophy favorite http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/ottawa-senators-defenseman-erik-karlsson-norris-trophy-favorite-162445645.html
  9. ^ http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=398747 SENATORS AGREE WITH D KARLSSON ON SEVEN-YEAR EXTENSION
  10. ^ Erik Karlsson suspended 1 game for 'throwing' stick at refs http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/eye-on-hockey/21391566/erik-karlsson-suspended-1-game-for-throwing-stick-at-refs
  11. ^ KARLSSON LEADS SENATORS OVER JETS IN SEASON OPENER http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=413985
  12. ^ Erik Karlsson needs surgery after skate cuts Achilles http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2013/02/13/ottawa-defenseman-karlsson-cut-by-skate/1918333/
  13. ^ Did You See That? Erik Karlsson's devastating injury http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/opinion/2013/02/did-you-see-that-erik-karlssons-devastating-injury.html
  14. ^ Senators fall to Penguins, lose Erik Karlsson indefinitely http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/game/1289377/recap
  15. ^ Penguins’ Matt Cooke suspended for rest of season http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2011/03/21/penguins_matt_cooke_suspended_for_rest_of_season.html
  16. ^ Erik Karlsson needs Achilles surgery http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/8945810/erik-karlsson-ottawa-senators-needs-achilles-surgery-suffering-cut-skate
  17. ^ KARLSSON RETURNS AS SENATORS LOOK TO CLINCH AGAINST CAPITALS http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=421652
  18. ^ a b "BEST PLAYERS SELECTED BY THE DIRECTORATE" (PDF). IIHF. April 23, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2008.
  19. ^ "PLUS-MINUS LEADERS" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. April 23, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2008.
  20. ^ "ASSIST LEADERS" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. April 23, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2008.
  21. ^ "DEFENSEMEN SCORING LEADERS" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. April 23, 2008. Retrieved July 1, 2008.
  22. ^ "Players By Team" (PDF). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. November 9, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2008. [dead link]
  23. ^ a b "MEDIA ALL STARS" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. January 6, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  24. ^ a b "BEST PLAYERS SELECTED BY THE DIRECTORATE" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. January 6, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  25. ^ "PLAYER STATISTICS BY TEAM" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. January 6, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  26. ^ "DEFENSEMEN SCORING LEADERS" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. January 6, 2009. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
  27. ^ "IIHF World Championship Defensemen Scoring Leaders" (PDF). IIHF.com. May 23, 2010.
  28. ^ http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/272/IHM2720SWE_83_9_0.pdf
  29. ^ http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/272/IHM272000_85E_15_0.pdf
  30. ^ a b c "Selanne MVP, Awards for Price, Karlsson, Kessel". IIHF.com. February 23, 2014.
  31. ^ a b Garrioch, Bruce (March 17, 2012). "Bobby Orr a big Karlsson booster". Ottawa Sun.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Winner of the Viking Award
2012 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy
2012 		Succeeded by
Sporting positions
Preceded by Ottawa Senators first round draft pick
2008 		Succeeded by

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