Jesper Wallstedt – from bandy to the crease
After a difficult AHL season in 2024/25, Jesper Wallstedt Article in HockeysverigeRead the sourceArticle in SportbladetRead the sourceArticle in TV4Read the sourceArticle in SportbladetRead the source. Jesper Wallstedt grew up in Västerås and played Bandy is a team sport played on skates with sticks and a ball on a large ice field.Article in SHLRead the sourceArticle in Jesper Wallstedt official websiteRead the source before taking up ice hockey. Article in SHLRead the source. Article in Minnesota WildRead the source. In a 2022 interview with the Article in Minnesota WildRead the source, he recalled Henrik Lundqvist as a childhood idol.
Västerås HK was his formative Article in Sveriges Olympiska KommittéRead the source. He also represented Västmanland in TV-pucken is a Swedish youth hockey tournament played between regional representative teams.Article in Svenska IshockeyförbundetRead the sourceArticle in Svenska IshockeyförbundetRead the source in 2016/17 and 2017/18. He even scored a goal as a goalie during his first season in Sweden’s under-20 club league, a detail highlighted in SHLSHL, the Swedish Hockey League, is Sweden’s top men’s domestic ice hockey league.’s Article in SHLRead the source profile.
Wallstedt moved to Luleå in Article in SHLRead the source. When SHLSHL, the Swedish Hockey League, is Sweden’s top men’s domestic ice hockey league. interviewed him in October 2020, he was attending a A Swedish hockeygymnasium combines upper-secondary (high school) studies with scheduled ice hockey training.Article in SHLRead the source there.
Article in Minnesota WildRead the source 2025/26 media guide listed golf and computer games among Wallstedt’s interests away from hockey. It also recorded a Swedish music choice: he named ABBA’s Article in Minnesota WildRead the source as the best song of all time.