SingleThorn Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 6 hours ago, stonecoldstevebernier said: http://www.shl.se/lag/087a-087aTQv9u__frolunda-hc/qQ9-62316fDCK__kristoffer-gunnarsson That's Gunnarsson's page. The whole site's in Swedish but you can guess most of the tabs. "Matcher" gets you the game log, "Statistik" brings up his stats for the year. "Media" usually has highlights and such but, well, he has zero points. You can use the search bar to type in whatever player you're looking for and find their pages too. The banner with game scores at the top works similar to NHL.com's, you can click on the matches and find the boxscores with player stats and whatnot. Hope that helps! Thank you. I really should have taken some language lessons from my Swedish grandfather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted February 14, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2018 8 hours ago, stonecoldstevebernier said: http://www.shl.se/lag/087a-087aTQv9u__frolunda-hc/qQ9-62316fDCK__kristoffer-gunnarsson That's Gunnarsson's page. The whole site's in Swedish but you can guess most of the tabs. "Matcher" gets you the game log, "Statistik" brings up his stats for the year. "Media" usually has highlights and such but, well, he has zero points. You can use the search bar to type in whatever player you're looking for and find their pages too. The banner with game scores at the top works similar to NHL.com's, you can click on the matches and find the boxscores with player stats and whatnot. Hope that helps! One more helpful hint: If you want to find stats for a European player, just google their name followed by the main website for their league. So for Gunnarsson, google “Kristoffer Gunnarsson SHL.se” and you’ll get a result for his stats page. Or “Lukas Jasek Hokej.cz” or “Olli Juolevi Liiga.fi” et cetera. Easy way to skip through searching the menus on foreign language sites and get straight to the result you’re looking for. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogersTowell Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Looks like he's being used as a 6d and lately moved down the depth a bit to 7d having sat 3 of the last 6. How do you go 41 games without a single point? You'd think that you'd get a 2nd assist somewhere just by being on the ice that much in a season. Sure the ice time is only averaging 10 minutes or so but that's still almost 7 hours of ice time without a point. Looks like he has a ways to go to be a solid SHL defenceman, much less NHL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegasCanuck Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 12 hours ago, RogersTowell said: Looks like he's being used as a 6d and lately moved down the depth a bit to 7d having sat 3 of the last 6. How do you go 41 games without a single point? You'd think that you'd get a 2nd assist somewhere just by being on the ice that much in a season. Sure the ice time is only averaging 10 minutes or so but that's still almost 7 hours of ice time without a point. Looks like he has a ways to go to be a solid SHL defenceman, much less NHL. Points aren’t the only thing that counts. He’s in a mens league in his draft +1 year and from the little Ive heard, not completely out of place. That’s pretty good for a 5th round pick. Too many fans on this board assume that a D has to put up a lot of points to be effective. Gunnarsson was not drafted for his offensive capabilities, he was drafted for his strength and ability to handle large forwards, like we have in the Western Conference, and clear them from in front of net. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroCanuck Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 1 minute ago, VegasCanuck said: Points aren’t the only thing that counts. He’s in a mens league in his draft +1 year and from the little Ive heard, not completely out of place. That’s pretty good for a 5th round pick. Too many fans on this board assume that a D has to put up a lot of points to be effective. Gunnarsson was not drafted for his offensive capabilities, he was drafted for his strength and ability to handle large forwards, like we have in the Western Conference, and clear them from in front of net. To add to that he may excel on a smaller ice surface and have the ability to be a quality shutdown guy. If he can move the puck out of the zone effectively and be a tough guy on the backend then he has a chance of making it. Skating and the ability to get the puck out of the zone are key. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegasCanuck Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 2 minutes ago, RetroCanuck said: To add to that he may excel on a smaller ice surface and have the ability to be a quality shutdown guy. If he can move the puck out of the zone effectively and be a tough guy on the backend then he has a chance of making it. Skating and the ability to get the puck out of the zone are key. Exactly, if he can become a dependable 5/6 guy in a few years, who you throw over the boards to handle Lucic in front of the net, I’ll be ecstatic with him as a 5th rounder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingleThorn Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 9 hours ago, VegasCanuck said: Points aren’t the only thing that counts. He’s in a mens league in his draft +1 year and from the little Ive heard, not completely out of place. That’s pretty good for a 5th round pick. Too many fans on this board assume that a D has to put up a lot of points to be effective. Gunnarsson was not drafted for his offensive capabilities, he was drafted for his strength and ability to handle large forwards, like we have in the Western Conference, and clear them from in front of net. I don't think anyone in this thread is not saying what your post says. 'We' ( just me ? ) understand that he was drafted for non stat reasons. The posts are just pointing out the difficulty of even the most defensive of defencemen going 41 games without a point. Look at his older stat lines. Same thing. He had a more 'normal' stat line in his Swedish J20 year 2015/ 16, but going back to 2012, there are a lot of zeros. If he's at our next rookie camp, I'll be watching him as much as I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpn1 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Is there a possibility we see him in Utica next year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 8 minutes ago, dpn1 said: Is there a possibility we see him in Utica next year? I don’t think so. There’s always a possibility but it’s pretty unlikely we see him come over as soon as next season. Frölunda extended him through the 2019-20 SHL season and Benning said after Gunnarsson was drafted something to the effect that the intention was to leave him in Sweden a couple years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komodo0921 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 On 2/14/2018 at 9:02 PM, VegasCanuck said: Points aren’t the only thing that counts. He’s in a mens league in his draft +1 year and from the little Ive heard, not completely out of place. That’s pretty good for a 5th round pick. Too many fans on this board assume that a D has to put up a lot of points to be effective. Gunnarsson was not drafted for his offensive capabilities, he was drafted for his strength and ability to handle large forwards, like we have in the Western Conference, and clear them from in front of net. For the most part, I agree. He wasn't drafted for his offensive prowess, but he should be able to put up a few points. If he's not going to be productive offensively, he'll need to be virtually flawless defensively. Hopefully, he's able to pick it up a little next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) Despite going 42 games without a single point, Gunnarsson currently sports only a -1 +/- rating, as of the day of this post. That's incredibly impressive. Shows how much of a defensive specialist he truly is. I was hoping he'd make the jump to Utica next year but the year after isn't bad either. I bet he has an NHL out clause in his contract for the 2019-2020 season. Edited February 26, 2018 by Quantum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheYjUstMaKeYoUwooZy Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 pre-benning we were lucky if our 1st round picks made the NHL.. I am so excited for the future. As the depth in our organization grows so will the challenge and competition between prospects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegasCanuck Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, komodo0921 said: For the most part, I agree. He wasn't drafted for his offensive prowess, but he should be able to put up a few points. If he's not going to be productive offensively, he'll need to be virtually flawless defensively. Hopefully, he's able to pick it up a little next season. Personally, I view this guy a little bit as the modern day equivalent of Harold Snepts. Although, that’s pretty big shoes (skates) to fill. Edited February 26, 2018 by VegasCanuck 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizzuto&hatoum Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I wonder if he's ever been paired up with Dahlin. Same team, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuck1991 Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 43 games , 0 pts and also 0 in +/- he must be doing somthing right as hes been in lineup fr every game. Does any one has any kind of insight on him. Its just that curosity, wht do we have in him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollieo Del Fuego Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 27 minutes ago, Nuck1991 said: 43 games , 0 pts and also 0 in +/- he must be doing somthing right as hes been in lineup fr every game. Does any one has any kind of insight on him. Its just that curosity, wht do we have in him? That's it...zero's...neither good nor bad...he is not going to score or get a primary assist ...but no-one ventures into his corner without fear and he blocks a ton of shots... ...so -0 pretty much a toss up kind of guy...nobody scores... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollieo Del Fuego Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 On 2/25/2018 at 5:57 PM, VegasCanuck said: Personally, I view this guy a little bit as the modern day equivalent of Harold Snepts. Although, that’s pretty big shoes (skates) to fill. I was just thinking that as I was writing my reply (above)...I do think he may be more coordinated than Snepts though...maybe not so prone to "own goals" or falling over backwards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpn1 Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 How about a modern day Ulf Samualsson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonds Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 I remember after the draft reading that this guy is a physical beast, set a new bench press record for Frolunda or something like that. He may not provide any offense, but I think there is room to have a #6 defenseman on the team who is rock solid defensively and can also beat the crap out of opponents. Of course this is provided the rest of the d-corps can actually chip in offensively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroCanuck Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 If he turns into a 6-7 defensemen that doesn't hurt you on the backend, doesn't help you on the front end but also bring some physicality and size then thats ok with me. We are talking about a pretty low pick here. Hopefully he comes over to NA next year and plays well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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