Ice Hockey Wiki
Ice Hockey Wiki
Advertisement
Eric Johansson
Position Centre
Shoots Left
Height
Weight
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
190 lb (86 kg)
Swe-2 Team
F. Teams
Leksands IF
Mora IK
Nationality Flag of Canada & Flag of Sweden
Born (1982-01-07)January 7, 1982,
Edmonton, AB, CAN
NHL Draft 255th overall, 2000
Minnesota Wild
187th overall, 2002
New Jersey Devils
Pro Career 2002 – present

Eric Johansson (born January 7, 1982, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional Swedish-Canadian[1] ice hockey player, currently with Leksands IF in the Swedish second tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan.

Playing career[]

Canadian-born Johansson started his ice hockey career in 1997, playing for the Tri-City Americans in the junior league Western Hockey League from 1997 to 2002.

The Minnesota Wild picked him 255th overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft but Johansson never signed with them. The New Jersey Devils then picked him 187th overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.

For season 2002–03 he joined the Albany River Rats in AHL, scoring 53 points in 151 games during the regular seasons. After three seasons with Albany, the last one spent primarily in ECHL with Augusta Lynx, he moved to Sweden and signed with Mora IK in the Swedish elite league Elitserien. After two seasons with the side he signed with another Elitserien team, HV71, after having started the season with TPS in the Finnish SM-liiga.[2][1] During the Swedish playoff finals, Johansson scored the game-winning goal in games six and secured the championship for HV71.[3]

In June, 2008, he signed a two year deal with Leksands IF in the Swedish second tier league, HockeyAllsvenskan.[4]

Awards[]

Career statistics[]

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1997–98 Tri-City Americans WHL 2 0 1 1 2
1998–99 Tri-City Americans WHL 48 8 14 22 20 6 1 1 2 2
1999–00 Tri-City Americans WHL 72 24 36 60 38 4 0 0 0 2
2000–01 Tri-City Americans WHL 72 36 44 80 72
2001–02 Tri-City Americans WHL 69 44 59 103 73 5 1 2 3 5
2002–03 Albany River Rats AHL 66 7 9 16 24
2003–04 Albany River Rats AHL 63 7 19 26 32
2004–05 Albany River Rats AHL 22 2 9 11 6
2004–05 Augusta Lynx ECHL 42 15 21 36 36
2005–06 Mora IK SEL 50 13 19 32 40 5 1 3 4 6
2006–07 Mora IK SEL 40 8 12 20 12 4 1 0 1 4
2007–08 TPS SM-l 8 2 1 3 0
2007–08 HV71 SEL 47 4 9 13 24 17 2 1 3 2
2008–09 Leksands IF Swe-1 45 22 30 52 43
2009–10 Leksands IF Swe-1 49 14 17 31 30
SEL totals 137 25 40 65 76 26 4 4 8 12
AHL totals 151 16 37 53 62

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gustafsson, Daniel (2007-10-08). Eric Johansson fyller luckan (Swedish). HV71.se. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  2. Eric Johansson. Elite Prospects (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  3. Pakarinen, Risto (2008-04-19). Captain Davidsson leads team to victory. IIHF. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  4. Källgren, Pär (2008-06-12). Nybliven svensk mästare till LIF. Leksands IF. Retrieved on 2008-06-12.

External links[]


This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Eric Johansson. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Ice Hockey Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA).


Advertisement