Niklas Svedberg

Niklas Svedberg (born 4 September 1989) is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing under contract with the HC Bolzano of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He won a Swedish championship title in 2012 with Brynäs IF.

Playing career On 29 May 2012, the Boston Bruins announced that they had signed Svedberg from the Swedish Elite League to an Entry Level Contract. Svedberg made his AHL debut on 19 October 2012 against the Manchester Monarchs. Svedberg was called up to the Boston Bruins on 24 May 2013. Svedberg was also voted as the AHL 2012–13 goalie of the year.

Svedberg made his NHL debut on 2 January 2014 in a home game against the Nashville Predators, playing all 60:50 of game time into a short overtime, resulting in a 3-2 Bruins win.

After the Bruins were eliminated by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs, on 23 June 2014 Svedberg was signed to a one-year, one-way contract by the Bruins, in anticipation of 2013–14 Bruins backup goaltender Chad Johnson becoming an unrestricted free agent. He appeared in 18 games with the Bruins over the course of the season, collecting 7 wins

As a restricted free agent after his first year as the Bruins backup in the 2014–15 season, Svedberg opted to sign a one-year KHL contract with Russian club, Salavat Yulaev Ufa on 10 May 2015. After leading all KHL goaltenders in games won during 2015–16, he re-signed a two-year contract extension with Salavat.

Sveberg was released from the final year of his contract with Salavat in order to return to the NHL ranks, agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract as a free agent with the Minnesota Wild on 1 July 2017. In the 2017–18 season within the Wild organization, Svedberg was assigned for the duration of the year to AHL affiliate, the Iowa Wild. In 44 appearances he compiled 18 wins with 18 losses.

On June 8, 2018, Svedberg as an impending free agent signed a two-year contract to return to Sweden with Timrå IK in the SHL. In the 2018–19 season, Svedberg registered just 10 wins in 35 games with Timrå IK, unable to keep the club from suffering relegation to the Allsvenskan.

In order to continue in the SHL, Svedberg left Timrå IK and agreed to join original hometown junior club, Djurgårdens IF for the final year of his contract on 7 June 2019.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP W L T/OT MIN GA SO GAA SV% GP W L MIN GA SO GAA SV% 2007–08 Modo Hockey SEL 1 0 0 0 8 1 0 7.11 .666 — — — — — — — — 2008–09 Modo Hockey SEL 3 0 3 0 178 16 0 5.41 .828 — — — — — — — — 2008–09 Huddinge IK Allsv 24 8 15 0 1376 74 2 3.23 .897 — — — — — — — — 2009–10 Modo Hockey SEL 32 12 14 6 1899 82 1 2.59 .900 — — — — — — — — 2010–11 Brynäs IF SEL 21 11 6 4 1261 48 2 2.28 .917 — — — — — — — — 2010–11 Mora IK Allsv 2 1 1 0 120 5 0 2.50 .931 — — — — — — — — 2011–12 Brynäs IF SEL 29 12 12 4 1726 71 0 2.47 .912 13 10 3 814 23 4 1.70 .947 2012–13 Providence Bruins AHL 48 37 8 2 2873 104 4 2.17 .925 12 6 6 675 37 0 3.29 .889 2013–14 Providence Bruins AHL 45 25 15 4 2602 114 2 2.63 .910 9 4 4 510 23 1 2.70 .905 2013–14 Boston Bruins NHL 1 1 0 0 61 2 0 1.97 .943 — — — — — — — — 2014–15 Boston Bruins NHL 18 7 5 1 900 35 2 2.33 .918 — — — — — — — — 2014–15 Providence Bruins AHL 4 3 1 0 239 11 0 2.76 .911 — — — — — — — — 2015–16 Salavat Yulaev Ufa KHL 53 29 19 3 3058 121 5 2.37 .916 19 9 10 1111 47 0 2.54 .912 2016–17 Salavat Yulaev Ufa KHL 48 14 17 12 2528 126 1 2.99 .897 5 1 4 272 8 0 1.76 .933 2017–18 Iowa Wild AHL 44 18 18 7 2613 125 2 2.87 .905 — — — — — — — — 2018–19 Timrå IK SHL 35 10 23 0 1942 111 2 3.42 .888 — — — — — — — — 2019–20 Djurgårdens IF SHL 35 21 14 0 2029 78 5 2.31 .917 — — — — — — — — 2020–21 Djurgårdens IF SHL 23 6 17 0 1308 66 1 3.03 .889 — — — — — — — — 2021–22 Djurgårdens IF SHL 10 2 7 0 557 32 0 3.45 .881 — — — — — — — — 2022–23 Fischtown Pinguins DEL 12 4 8 0 726 30 0 2.48 .904 1 0 0 20 2 0 6.00 .667 SHL totals 175 74 96 14 10,908 505 11 2.75 .902 13 10 3 814 23 4 1.70 .947 NHL totals 19 8 5 1 961 37 2 2.31 .920 — — — — — — — — KHL totals 101 43 36 15 5586 247 6 2.65 .907 24 10 14 1383 55 1 2.39 .916