WC: 2023 Sweden Roster Talk

[Eye of Ra]

I understand why Sjöholm and Bysted was cut, they where not good. Clearly they are not ready yet. But why was Lindberg cut? He was our best player in both games and he was also our most physical player.

Interesting with Folin...he was horrible under Garpenlöv. But maybe he can be better with his old coach Hallam.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Want this lines in the Norway games:

Leo Carlsson - L.Johansson - Karlqvist
Dahlen - De la Rose - Petersson/Sörensen
Brännström - Bengtsson - Sylvegård
Everberg - Rasmussen - Lang

Borgman - Folin
Engsund - Johanesson
Alsing - Nyström

The centers...

 

[Eye of Ra]

Looking at the first round in Stanley Cup:

Colorado vs Seattle: Landeskog and Burakovsky is injured. Wennberg, Larsson would be good adds and both have contract.

Dallas vs Wild: Nils Lundkvist, Brodin and Eriksson Ek all have contract and would be good adds.

Boston vs Florida: Both Forsling and H.Lindholm would be massive adds, both have contract.

Carolina vs Islanders: None really.

Vegas vs Jets: William Karlsson would be a nice add and he has contract.

Oilers vs Kings: Ekholm, Arvidsson and Kempe would be good adds. All 3 have contracts.

Devils vs Rangers: Bratt dont have contract. Zibanejad has contract and would be a huge add ofcourse.

Tampa vs Leafs: Hedman, Nylander and Järnkrok would all 3 be good adds and all 3 have contracts.

 

[THE JAM]

so, who'll be #1 goalie for SWE?

 

[theslatcher]

so, who'll be #1 goalie for SWE?

At Worlds, or against Norway? Pretty much a crapshoot unless Ullmark or Gustavsson get eliminated after R1.

 

[Eye of Ra]

At Worlds, or against Norway? Pretty much a crapshoot unless Ullmark or Gustavsson get eliminated after R1.

Lars Johansson is the best bet from Europe. If Markstrom accepts a invite its probaly him.

 

[THE JAM]

@ worlds I meant of course

 

[THE JAM]

Marky is pretty much hated by his own Calgary fans and perhaps reasonably so.

Would be interesting to see him as the SWE #1.
As a Winland fan I'd love it - if Calgary fans are correct, he is a sieve

 

[EK47]

Marky is pretty much hated by his own Calgary fans and perhaps reasonably so.

Would be interesting to see him as the SWE #1.
As a Winland fan I'd love it - if Calgary fans are correct, he is a sieve

I’ve actually seen his time in Calgary as fairly successfull, apart from this season.

Apparently Rasmus Andersson has a nagging back injury. He’s most likely out.

 

[theslatcher]

I’ve actually seen his time in Calgary as fairly successfull, apart from this season.

Apparently Rasmus Andersson has a nagging back injury. He’s most likely out.

That's only 66.6% though.

Dahlin's playing the last few games for Buffalo while they're shutting down any player with a minor injury, safe to say he's available lest anything happens tonight.

 

[weklof]

I understand why Sjöholm and Bysted was cut, they where not good. Clearly they are not ready yet. But why was Lindberg cut? He was our best player in both games and he was also our most physical player.

Interesting with Folin...he was horrible under Garpenlöv. But maybe he can be better with his old coach Hallam.

Yes, I am also a bit suprised by Lindberg not being part of the squad. Maybe there was an injury or something. I thought he was one of the better forwards against Denmark.

 

[weklof]

Ok, so time to start tracking NHLers status:

Confirmed accepts:
None yet

Confirmed declines:

Pos	Name	Team	Notes	Source
D	Rasmus Andersson	Calgary Flames	Still hurting after accident	Eric Francis (Sportsnet)
D	Rasmus Dahlin	Buffalo Sabres	Injury	Dom Tibbetts (Buffalo writer)
F	Nicklas Bäckström	Washington Capitals	Wants a full offseson to heal up properly	Jonathan Lindqvist, Viaplay broadcast
F	Rickard Rakell	Pittsburgh Penguins	"Minor health issues"	Seth Rorabaugh (Pens writer)

Available players (at least 1 NHL game this season):

Pos	Name	Team	Notes	Source
F	Isac Lundeström	Anaheim Ducks
F	Jakob Silfverberg	Anaheim Ducks
G	Olle Eriksson Ek	San Diego Gulls
D	Patrik Nemeth	Arizona Coyotes
D	Victor Söderström	Tucson Roadrunners	AHL playoffs
F	Victor Olofsson	Buffalo Sabres
D	Lawrence Pilut	Rochester Americans	AHL playoffs
G	Jacob Markström	Calgary Flames
D	Oliver Kylington	Calgary Flames	Missed entire season with injury
F	Mikael Backlund	Calgary Flames
F	Elias Lindholm	Calgary Flames
D	Andreas Englund	Chicago Blackhawks	Pending UFA
D	Filip Roos	Rockford IceHogs	Possible AHL playoffs
G	Arvid Söderblom	Rockford IceHogs	Possible AHL playoffs
D	Adam Boqvist	Columbus Blue Jackets
F	Emil Bemström	Columbus Blue Jackets
D	Marcus Björk	Cleavland Monsters	Possible AHL playoffs
G	Magnus Hellberg	Detroit Red Wings	Pending UFA
D	Robert Hägg	Detroit Red Wings	Pending UFA
D	Gustav Lindström	Detroit Red Wings	Pending RFA
F	Jonatan Berggren	Detroit Red Wings
F	Lucas Raymond	Detroit Red Wings
F	Elmer Söderblom	Grand Rapids Griffins
D	Simon Edvinsson	Grand Rapids Griffins
F	Rasmus Asplund	Nashville Predators	Pending RFA
F	Filip Forsberg	Nashville Predators	Missed end of season with injury
G	Anton Forsberg	Ottawa Senators	Season ending injury
D	Erik Brännström	Ottawa Senators	Pending RFA
D	Jacob Larsson	Belleville Senators	Pending RFA
G	Felix Sandström	Philadelphia Flyers
D	Adam Ginning	Leigh Valley Phantoms	AHL playoffs
G	Samuel Ersson	Leigh Valley Phantoms	AHL playoffs
F	Olle Lycksell	Leigh Valley Phantoms	AHL playoffs
D	Marcus Pettersson	Pittsburgh Penguins
F	Alexander Nylander	Pittsburgh Penguins
D	Erik Karlsson	San Jose Sharks
F	Andreas Johnsson	San Jose Sharks	Pending UFA
F	Oskar Lindblom	San Jose Sharks
F	Jacob Peterson	San Jose Sharks	Pending RFA
D	Calle Rosén	St. Louis Blues
D	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	Vancouver Canucks	Missed end of season with injury
F	Elias Pettersson	Vancouver Canucks
F	Nils Åman	Vancouver Canucks	AHL playoffs?
F	Nils Höglander	Abbotsford Canucks	AHL playoffs
D	Rasmus Sandin	Washington Capitals
F	Carl Hagelin	Washington Capitals	Missed entire season with injury
D	Gabriel Carlsson	Herhsey Bears	AHL playoffs

First round series:
Bruins vs Panthers:
Ullmark, Lindholm vs Forsling

Maple Leafs vs Lightning:
Källgren, Gustafsson, Liljegren, Järnkrok, Nylander vs Hedman

Hurricanes vs Islanders:
Fast vs Aho, Engvall, Holmström

Devils vs Rangers:
Boqvist, Bratt vs Zibanejad

Avalanche vs Kraken:
Larsson, Burakovsky, Frödén, Wennberg

Stars vs Wild:
Lundkvist, Olofsson vs Gustavsson, Brodin, Klingberg, Eriksson Ek, Johansson, Nyquist, Sundqvist

Golden Knights vs Jets:
Karlsson vs Gustafsson, Jonsson Fjällby, Stenlund

Oilers vs Kings:
Broberg, Ekholm, Janmark vs Björnfot, Edler, Arvidsson, Grundström, Kempe

 

[jaro]

 

[weklof]

I'm starting to get the feeling it'll be a lot of declines this year.

 

[EK47]

Calling it now, this is another shit year.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Makes zero sense. There is no best on best tournament anymore and we have a new good coach. Players should be hungry to play.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Im worried Hallam will go with the likes of Silfverberg, Oscar Lindblom etc as our top guys. Our players in Europe is better than them. Would much rather see a team like this than a bunch of overated 4th line NHLers.

Jonathan Dahlen - Anton Lander - Patrik Karlkvist
Oscar Möller - Pär Lindholm - Andre Petersson
Leo Carlsson - Lucas Wallmark - Marcus Sörensen
Rickard Hugg - Oscar Lindberg (hope he comes back) - Oskar Lang

Theodor Lennström - Lukas Bengtsson
Henrik Tömmernäs - Jonathan Pudas
Andreas Borgman - Joel Persson

Lars Johansson
Marcus Högberg
Linus Söderström

 

[EK47]

Im worried Hallam will go with the likes of Silfverberg, Oscar Lindblom etc as our top guys. Our players in Europe is better than them. Would much rather see a team like this than a bunch of overated 4th line NHLers.

Jonathan Dahlen - Anton Lander - Patrik Karlkvist
Oscar Möller - Pär Lindholm - Andre Petersson
Leo Carlsson - Lucas Wallmark - Marcus Sörensen
Rickard Hugg - Oscar Lindberg (hope he comes back) - Oskar Lang

Theodor Lennström - Lukas Bengtsson
Henrik Tömmernäs - Jonathan Pudas
Andreas Borgman - Joel Persson

Lars Johansson
Marcus Högberg
Linus Söderström

Yeah there is absolutely zero chance I watch a single game of thats ends up being the swedish line up.

 

[weklof]

Im worried Hallam will go with the likes of Silfverberg, Oscar Lindblom etc as our top guys. Our players in Europe is better than them. Would much rather see a team like this than a bunch of overated 4th line NHLers.

If our big adds will be middeling NHLers like Silfverberg and Lindblom, I don't like our chances. We need big names like Elias & Elias (Pettersson & Lindholm) to accept.

Borderline NHLers are marginal at best upgrades over Euro players. Remember the year when Marcus Sörensen was one of the NHL additions?

 

[weklof]

Rasmus Andersson confirmed decline:

 

[Chainshot]

 

[theslatcher]

One has to question why Dahlin played through an injury for the last few games while others with injuries got shut down.

 

[EK47]

One has to question why Dahlin played through an injury for the last few games while others with injuries got shut down.

Yeah that seems completely unnecessary.

 

[Chainshot]

One has to question why Dahlin played through an injury for the last few games while others with injuries got shut down.

Telling that stubborn man to not do something? Good luck.

 

[EK47]

Embrace the shit boys!