{"id":45168,"date":"2025-08-04T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45168\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:23:08","slug":"william-nylander-named-top-swedish-player-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45168\/","title":{"rendered":"William Nylander named top Swedish player of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> announced Monday that Nylander was named this year&#8217;s recipient of the GuldPucken award, an award handed annually to the top Swedish player.<\/p>\n<p>It is voted on by The Swedish Ice Hockey Associated and the Expressen.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander is a top contributor to the Maple Leafs, playing all 82 games last season while recording 84 points (45 goals, 39 assists). The Swedish native logged an average ice time of 19:31 seconds per game and recorded a plus-10 in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot right winger has also excelled in the post-season with 58 points in 67 playoff games over the past nine seasons, including 15 this past spring.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs selected Nylander as their first pick (8th overall) in the 2014 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>This is Nylander&#8217;s first time receiving the honour. Panthers defenceman Gustav Forsling won the award last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs announced Monday that Nylander was named this year&#8217;s recipient of the GuldPucken award, an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-45168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}