Fantasy Summary
Wahlberg is a powerful centreman who dominates in transition, plays a refined defensive game, and has shown impressive offensive creativity and goalscoring ability.
Observations
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July 2024- Wahlberg signed an entry-level contract with the Sabres in March 2024 and is set to join the Rochester Americans on a full-time basis in September. He played 43 games in the SHL this past season with Malmo, scoring five goals and ten points. He also competed at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship, contributing to his team’s silver medal result. He averaged over 18 minutes per game in his most important performances and received 20:04 of ice time in the gold medal match. Upon joining the Americans in the spring, he scored one goal and four points in nine regular season games as well as one assist in five postseason matches. –Kevin Wong
June 2023 – Wahlberg was selected 39th overall by Buffalo. Pat Quinn
March 2023 – Anton Wahlberg is a late riser in the 2023 draft class. His SHL performances in the back half of the season have been very impressive and I’d wager they will get him drafted in the first round despite being on very few draft lists as recently as January. Wahlberg tilts the ice in his team’s favour in just about every facet of the game apart from playmaking. He’s a sound defensive player who has flashed impressive tenacity and intensity on the fore and backcheck at times this season. He’s a strong skater, especially for his size, and is a very good puck carrier through the neutral zone. In the offensive zone, he remains in constant motion, trying to create and exploit soft ice. He’s a good net-front player and his shot is a scoring threat from medium range. As a whole, Wahlberg has a very enticing set of tools which give him second-line upside, and his foundation of habits and intelligence provide him a good fallback game, so even if his skill doesn’t lift him into a top-six, he would still project as a valuable player to have in a bottom six. Sebastian High
April 2023 – Wahlberg will be an interesting player to follow at the draft, as it was a tale of two seasons for him. In the J20, he was often inefficient and between flashes of brilliance and end-to-end rushes, he was regularly disengaged. In the SHL, however, it all came together. He blended his strong physical game with his plus-level skating and speed to bulldoze through the neutral zone against pro competition and generally tilt the ice in his team’s favour. His defensive game is decent if not amazing, and his goalscoring game is far more refined than his playmaking game is. He is quite raw and will take patience, but the middle-six upside as a rare mold of player will be very enticing on day two of the draft. Sebastian High
Stats
Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | Playoffs | GP | G | A | TP | PIM | |
2018-2019 | Limhamn HK U16 | U16 Div.1 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 12 | | | ||||||
Limhamn HK J18 | J18 Div.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | | | |||||||
2019-2020 | Malmö Redhawks U16 2 | U16 Div.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | | | ||||||
Malmö Redhawks U16 | U16 Region | 20 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 2 | | | |||||||
Malmö Redhawks U16 | U16 SM | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | | | |||||||
Malmö Redhawks J18 | J18 Region | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |||||||
2020-2021 | Malmö Redhawks U16 | U16 Region | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 10 | | | ||||||
Skåne | TV-Pucken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |||||||
2021-2022 | Malmö Redhawks J18 | J18 Region | 24 | 12 | 16 | 28 | 10 | | | ||||||
Malmö Redhawks J20 | J20 Nationell | 22 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | | | Relegation | 7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |
Malmö Redhawks | SHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | |||||||
2022-2023 | Malmö Redhawks J18 | J18 Region | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | | | ||||||
Sweden U18 | WJAC-19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | | | |||||||
Malmö Redhawks J20 | J20 Nationell | 32 | 14 | 13 | 27 | 53 | | | Playoffs | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Malmö Redhawks | SHL | 17 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | | | Relegation | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Sweden U18 | WJC-18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 16 | | | |||||||
Sweden U18 (all) | International-Jr | 14 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 20 | | | |||||||
2023-2024 | Malmö Redhawks | SHL | 43 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 4 | | | ||||||
Rochester Americans | AHL | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | | | Playoffs | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Sweden U20 | WJC-20 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | | | |||||||
Sweden U20 (all) | International-Jr | 16 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | | | |||||||
2024-2025 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 11 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | | |
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