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So! Oliver Bjorkstrand is so longer a Seattle Kraken. As he moves on to his new home in Tampa Bay, I wanted to take a moment and send along some of his lore. He deserves a run; he deserves a home. We’re sad we couldn’t be that for him. Let’s review here… lore featuring a textbook portrait of a gifted kid, complete with a demanding father, psychological mind games from his father’s friend, grief, heartbreak and also…enduring friendship and resilience. Let’s go!
Bjorky is from an American family but born in Denmark since his father was a hockey player who was incentivized to play in Denmark.
His dad was friends with John Tortorella in college hockey.
This is important.
While Ollie was growing up, his dad was probably one of the most well-known names in hockey. Which made the attention on Ollie all the more intense. Plus: his dad coached him. (Ollie is the little baby in the blue helmet)
Of that time, reflecting back on it later, Ollie has said: “My dad’s pretty demanding. He expects hard work and so on.” His dad fairly infamously suspended 5 teenagers from his own team from the World Juniors for goofing off during a media apperance. Oliver has said he noticed that his dad has softened his approach since those times coaching his son.
And of coaching Oliver, his dad says: “Oliver was young. He was only 16. And he was pretty easy. He pretty much just tries to do his best when you give him instructions.”
Overall, the coaching worked: Oliver becomes excellent.
He begins his career in Denmark and quickly outpaces the skill level there, leading him to being selected 26th overall in the WHL import draft in 2012. He moves to the States to play for the Portland Winterhawks.
In 2013, he is selected 89th overall in the NHL Draft by the Columbus Blue Jackets.
He will return to the WHL for the next couple seasons, where he wins championships and overall dominates the league. People know Oliver Bjorkstrand’s name.
He starts professionally in the AHL for the 2015-16 season, then makes his NHL debut in March of 2016.
He scores two goals in his second NHL game. The kid’s good.
He’s sent back to the AHL for their Calder Cup run and lmao Bjorkstrand literally wins them the Calder Cup dude like he scores the game winning goal in SO many of these games, including the final one!
HAHA FUCK THE HERSHEY BEARS (sorry, kraken fan, I have to say this, sorry) the Monsters win against them for the Calder Cup!
And Oliver is named the Most Valuable Player :)
Oliver belongs up with the NHL the next season and now we have to talk about a very important part of his lore.
John Tortorella is in charge of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
And he is. Very intense with Oliver Bjorkstrand. Oliver deflects a lot of the intensity by saying that he was prepared for Torts style by being coached by his dad, who is very similar. Which. Okay. Feeling normal about that!!
Where to start…there’s so much:
Torts tells Bjorkstrand that, to be a good player, he needs to copy Artemi Panarin. He doesn’t need to be Oliver Bjorkstrand; he needs to be more like an entirely different player. A player with a language barrier so high that Oliver can’t even become friends with him or have many conversations with him. He just has to try (and he fails) to become more like him.
He tells Bjorkstrand to be more like Panarin in front of the whole team, on the ice at practice. And the whole team is asked to support it, with Nick Foligno stating “[Bjorky] would be stupid not to learn from [Panarin]. And we know he’s not stupid.”
Torts pits Bjorkstrand and Anthony Duclair against one another, publicly, stating that there’s only room for one of them on the third line and the other one will be scratched if he isn’t good enough. This is discussed openly. Multiple articles about it.
The media has a field day, getting quotes from all parties involved and seeing who will please Tortorella the most.
This drags on, as Bjorkstrand struggles to get basic respect and regular ice time, but eventually he does. The Jackets enter the playoffs consistently from 2016-17 onwards.
Upon elimination from the playoffs in the 2020-2021 playoffs (a very strange pandemic series) he makes a statement: he wants to keep going. Despite the struggles of these early years with Torts, he is a committed Blue Jacket. He signs a five-year extension to remain with them in 2021.
That summer, he suffers the loss of Matiss Kivlenieks with the rest of his teammates. It could break them, but they show up to training camp ready to go for him.
And Oliver Bjorkstrand shows up with a brand new A on his sweater. They win in their home opener, and Bjorkstrand says of their lost goalie, “We played for him.”
He is a leader in this team. He certainly worked for it. But moves are necessary to bolster a broken team.
The Jackets don’t make the playoffs in the 21-22 season and Oliver Bjorkstrand spends his long summer getting married.
And then, during his honeymoon, he picks up his phone to find multiple missed calls and messages from his GM.
Oliver Bjorkstrand has been traded. On his honeymoon. To the very much struggling Seattle Kraken heading into their second season.
General manager Kekalainen says this was “the toughest decision” he’d made as a GM, sharing how wonderful Oliver is as a person.
He is gracious about it. He understands. He knows that his salary is high and space needs to be made, mostly for Johnny Gaudreau who is bringing much needed stardom for the team.
Ever the team player, ever the class act, Bjorkstrand and his wife reach out to Johnny and Meredith and personally sell them their new house so they don’t need to look too much for a house to move into. To make the move easy on two people even as they’re forced out.
So Oliver comes to Seattle. He struggles but he also doesn’t have to be EXCELLENT. He can be steady.
When Seattle adds on Eeli Tolvanen, Bjorky seems to bloom a little more. They become very close, laughing and talking constantly during games.
Those two get put on a line with Yanni Goirde and become affectionately known as the Brothers Line. Why?
“Those guys bicker like brothers,” head coach Dave Hakstol says of the three. They push each other. They joke. They’re goofing off and they’re also productive.
Oliver and his line get all the way to the first playoff appearance of the Kraken’s history.
And Oliver Bjorkstrand gets the game winning goal in game seven of their first playoff series.
No, the Kraken did not win the Cup. Of course not. But he did win them a playoff series that NO ONE expected them to win. And that secured him a spot in our hearts.
The next season, the Kraken are back to struggling, but Bjorkstrand continues to put the work in to be the steady presence with occasional game-breaking goals that we’ve grown to expect from him.
He is named all-star and he is…so Oliver Bjorkstrand about it lmao it’s so funny. If you know anything about him before this, it’s most likely this? Here’s an article.
At the All-Star game, he’s last to be chosen at the draft :/ but he scores first in the game for his team :)
Unfortunately, the Kraken continue to struggle after this and beyond, into the next season.
In November 2024, he’s healthy scratched for the first time in years. Coach Dan Bylsma (who replaced the fired Hakstol) sent the message that no one on the team was beyond reproach, including our current all-star.
And the media, they, uh. They asked Oliver’s dad about it.
Imagine getting scolded at work and then some people go and ask your dad about it lmao but he says: “He’s just got to take it and learn from it and try to be better.”
Great lmao
Bjorkstrand isn’t radically different after that, and his name begins to be floated around as a trade piece because he still isn’t to the level the Kraken hoped he would be when they traded for him in 2022.
He is traded during trade deadline week in 2025, along with Yanni Gourde, to Tampa.
And this is where we are now.
So this is who Oliver Bjorkstrand has been: a father’s protege, a juniors’ phenom, an AHL champion, a coach’s project, a gracious trade piece, a man who sells his home to the guy who pushed him out of town, a player who cancels his vacation to represent his team, a guy who looks like a professor but will drop the gloves in a second if so asked.
His NHL playoff appearance over the five years has only ever come in unexpected seasons, as the underdog. He was excellent in that appearance. EXCELLENT. I’m so excited to see how being a true contender ties in with that play.
And if we can stop asking his dad’s opinion when he fucks up, that would be AWESOME that would BE GREAT.
Anyway. I love him. Here’s him being really hot in Columbus.
