{"id":796173,"date":"2026-07-12T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796173\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:48:08","slug":"jets-viggo-bjorck-leaves-swedish-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796173\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets\u2019 Viggo Bjorck leaves Swedish club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\"><a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/jetsnation.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> first-round selection Viggo Bjorck, picked with the No. 8 overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft in June, has made a big decision as to his plans for the 2026-27 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Saturday night, Bjorck\u2019s club team in Sweden, Djurg\u00e5rden IF, announced that Bjorck would be leaving the club, meaning he intends to head to North America for Jets training camp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Bjorck was in the mix as one of the top prospects in the 2026 draft throughout the entire year, and he finished ranked as the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/2026-nhl-draft-rankings-final-top-120-steven-ellis-mckenna-reid-stenberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 9 player available<\/a> according to Daily Faceoff prospect analyst Steven Ellis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cBj\u00f6rck definitely lacks the size teams crave in a center,\u201d Ellis wrote. \u201cBut that hasn\u2019t slowed him down \u2013 he\u2019s absolutely fearless\u2026 It\u2019s like watching a younger Zach Benson. Bj\u00f6rck\u2019s shot is incredibly deceptive, especially on the power play. He doesn\u2019t give you much to work with if you\u2019re a goalie \u2013 and it\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t need to. Quick, accurate and always in a dangerous spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The announcement from Djurg\u00e5rden paves a clear path for Bjorck to sign his entry-level contract with the Jets and push to make the team\u2019s opening night roster out of training camp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">If Bjorck does not make the team out of camp, the door would still be open for the talented pivot to go back to Sweden on loan, where he could play for Djurg\u00e5rden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">In 42 regular season games in the SHL during the 2025-26 campaign, Bjorck posted 15 points on six goals and nine assists for Djurg\u00e5rden before recording three points in three postseason games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">He excelled for Tre Kronor in international competition as well, racking up nine points in seven contests at the IIHF U20 World Junior Championships as the Swedes claimed gold for the first time since 2012 with a win over Czechia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Sweden did not reach the podium at the World Championships in May, but Bjorck showed he can compete against NHL caliber talent there, recording six points in eight games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets first-round selection Viggo Bjorck, picked with the No. 8 overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-796173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}