Emil Axelsson - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Emil Axelsson is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

defenseman

Defenceman (ice hockey)

Defence in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring...

currently playing for Örebro HK

Örebro HK

Örebro HK is a Swedish ice hockey club located in Örebro. The team is currently playing in HockeyAllsvenskan, the second highest ice hockey league in Sweden for men. The team's home arena is Behrn Arena.- History :...

in the second highest league in Sweden. In the 2004 NHL Draft, he was picked in the 7th round by the New York Islanders

New York Islanders

The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

. He was drafted by former Islanders' general manager Mike Milbury

Mike Milbury

Michael Milbury is an American sportscaster currently working as an ice hockey analyst for the New England Sports Network , Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on NBC. He played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League , all of them as a defenseman for the Boston Bruins...

. He is a defense-minded and physical player and spends a lot of time in the penalty box

Penalty box

The penalty box is the area in ice hockey, rugby league, rugby union and some other sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty, for an offense not severe enough to merit outright expulsion from the contest...

. He spent 240 minutes in the box in just 152 career games through the 2006–07 season.