DENVER \u2013\u00a0The Colorado\u00a0Avalanche\u00a0Hockey Club announced today that the team has\u00a0signed defenseman\u00a0Gustav Stjernberg\u00a0to a two-year contract beginning with the 2026-27 campaign. \u00a0He will join the Colorado Eagles on an AHL contract for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
Stjernberg,\u00a023, posted a 6g\/4a scoring line in 25 games while serving as alternate captain as a junior for Bowling Green State University this season. He paced the Bowling Green d-core in goals, setting a career-high in that category, and finished sixth in scoring. The blueliner also ranked first on the club with 34 blocked shots.<\/p>\n
The Enebyberg, Sweden, native spent three seasons with Bowling Green and totaled 37 points (14g\/23a) across 86 career collegiate showings from 2023-26. He posted personal bests in assists (12) points (16) and net rating (+7) last season with the Falcons and added 42 blocked shots to pace the club in that category. As a freshman, Stjernberg appeared in a career-high 31 games and paced all team defensemen with 11 points (4g\/7a).<\/p>\n
Prior to his collegiate career, the 6-foot-4, 209-pound defenseman spent one season in the United States Hockey League with the Des Moines Buccaneers in 2022-23. He collected 20 points (8g\/12a) across 62 showings to pace all Des Moines defenseman in goals and ranked second among the club\u2019s d-core in scoring. The blueliner also appeared in two postseason matchups with the Buccaneers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stjernberg also spent three seasons with Orebro HK in Sweden\u2019s U-20 league from 2019-22 and registered a 12g\/22a scoring line across 66 career contests. He added five points (1g\/4a) across six playoff games with in 2021-22, his only U-20 postseason experience. The blueliner also spent time with Orebro\u2019s U-18 affiliate during that span and recorded 41 points (12g\/29a) in 74 career U-18 games from 2017-20. He also made one appearance with the club\u2019s SHL team in 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2013\u00a0The Colorado\u00a0Avalanche\u00a0Hockey Club announced today that the team has\u00a0signed defenseman\u00a0Gustav Stjernberg\u00a0to a two-year contract beginning with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-522998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}