EliteProspects founder Johan Nilsson has died at the age of 45 following a nine-year battle with colon cancer. The news was shared by the hockey database he created on Thursday. Nilsson, born in 1981, started the platform as a teenager.
EliteProspects announced the death on its social media channels. The site described Nilsson as a person whose curiosity and passion for hockey laid the foundation for the service used daily by fans, clubs, agents and players around the world to track statistics, transfers and careers.
