Swedish forward Fredrik Olofsson, 28, has signed a two-year contract to play in Switzerland with EV Zug, the National League club announced on Monday.

Olofsson spent the past two seasons in North America, playing 87 NHL games with the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche, recording 13 points.

“Fredrik will give our lineup even more depth and flexibility for the coming season,” said Zug GM Reto Kläy said of Olofsson, who can play center or left wing. “After last season, we made a conscious decision to start the new season with seven imports so that we would be prepared in the event of bad luck with injuries.”

Olofsson joins a roster that includes Swedish defenseman Gabriel Carlsson, Czech center Jan Kovář and several notable players from the Swiss national team, including Fabrice Herzog, Dario Simion and goaltender Leonardo Genoni. Last season, Zug finished fourth in the National League regular season and was knocked out in the semifinals.

Originally from Helsingborg, Sweden, across the Öresund Sound from Helsingør, Denmark, Olofsson lived in the United States from ages 14 to 23, where he played youth hockey in Colorado, junior hockey for the USHL’s Green Bay Gamblers and Chicago Steel, and college hockey for the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Olofsson was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2014 but never played for them, and returned to Sweden to play for MoDo and IK Oskarshamn between 2019 and 2022 before taking another shot at the NHL, thanks to a 2021-22 campaign in which he recorded 50 points in 58 SHL regular-season and playoff games. That season he was also selected to play for Sweden at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, where he recorded an assist in six games.