Lehigh Valley's Olle Lycksell Named Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Player of the Week
Published on October 23, 2023 under American Hockey League (AHL) News Release
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ... The American Hockey League announced today that Lehigh Valley Phantoms forward Olle Lycksellhas been selected as the Howies Hockey Tape/AHL Player of the Weekfor the period ending October 22, 2023.
Lycksell scored five goals over three games in a span of less than 48 hours over the weekend, including the game-winning goal in each of the Phantoms' two victories.
On Friday evening in Springfield, Lycksell scored his first three goals of the season - one in each period - to secure the first hat trick of his AHL career and lead Lehigh Valley to a 5-2 victory. He scored the Phantoms' only goal in a 5-1 loss at Hartford on Saturday, and converted on the power play for the third time on the weekend to send the Phantoms to a 3-2 home win over Springfield on Sunday.
Lycksell, who was held without a point in two games during the season's opening weekend, is now tied for the AHL lead in goals (5), power-play goals (3) and game-winners (2). In 2022-23, his first season of play in North America, Lycksell notched 14 goals and 31 assists for 45 points in 53 games for Lehigh Valley - good for second on the team in scoring - and also tallied one assist in eight National Hockey League games with Philadelphia.
A 24-year-old native of Oskarshamn, Sweden, Lycksell played five seasons in the Swedish Hockey League, totaling 95 points in 221 games. He was a sixth-round selection by the Flyers in the 2017 NHL Draft.
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