Nichlas Torp | |
Birth Date: | 10 April 1989 |
Birth Place: | Jönköping, Sweden |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 11 |
Weight Lb: | 203 |
Position: | Defence |
Shoots: | Left |
League: | SHL |
Team: | Nybro Vikings |
Former Teams: | Timrå IK Modo Hockey Leksands IF Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers Malmö Redhawks Düsseldorfer EG IK Oskarshamn HV71 |
Draft: | 163rd overall |
Draft Year: | 2007 |
Draft Team: | Montreal Canadiens |
Career Start: | 2008 |
Nichlas Torp (born April 10, 1989 in Jönköping) is a Swedish ice hockey player currently playing with the Nybro Vikings in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).[1] He was selected in the sixth round, 163rd overall, by the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.
Torp made his debut in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) representing his hometown team HV71 during the 2008-09 season. In 2010, he helped the team win the Swedish national championship. He moved to Timrå IK in 2011, where he spent one year, followed by a four-year tenure at Modo Hockey.
The 2016-17 season saw him skate for Leksands IF, before taking his game abroad for the first time in his career, when putting pen to paper on a deal with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the German DEL on February 6, 2017.[2]