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5th Round: Alexander Hellnemo

Alexander Hellnemo is a goaltender for Skelleftea Jr. of the Sweden Jr. league. The Caps are pretty much set on goalies up and down the organization but they tend to take one in the later rounds each year the last few years. This is this year’s new goalie.

For the J20 Nationell’s Skelleftea AIK J20 he went 15-8-0 in the regular season with a .916 save percentage and a 2.32 goals against average. In the playoffs he went 0-2-0 with a .893 save percentage and a 3.03 GAA.

For Skellefteå AIK of the SHL he went 5-3-0 with a 2.39 goals against average and a .895 save percentage. He also was loaned to Vasteras IK of the Hockey Allsvenskan where he went 0-2-0 with a .861 save percentage and a 3.07 GAA.

On the international stage he represented Sweden in the International Jr. on their U19 team where he went 1-1-0 with a 2.02 goals against average and a .871 save percentage.