Some nice games from him recently. Also hope that his presence on the Lightning has created some new Lightning fans in Norway.
At least you now have everyone in Emil's hometown Sarpsborg rooting for you!
In the hallways of his local Norwegian team (Sparta) Emil and Tampa is a hot topic amongst parents and people working in the club. Here everything is semi-professional and a high number of the people doing work for the club is doing it for free, so people really care about hockey and the players growing out of this club are heros
All the kids are dreaming of Tampa jerseys with #78 these days
The small hockey community in Norway is of course rooting for the Norwegian players. We only have 2 guys in the league now with Lilleberg in Tampa and Zuccarello in Minnesota. Zucca is at the end of his career and is (in my opinion) playing a really boring team. Without Kaprizov Minnesota is zzzzzz.
This is the second NHL player Sparta has produced. Jonas Holøs was also a D-man playing Colorado in 2010/2011 season and now works as coach in the club.
The 7pm games starts at 1am in Norway so a lot of people watch the games recorded the day after. On Saturday I think the broadcasters will see a lot of Norwegian watchers since that game starts 7pm Norwegian time.
Good luck in the end race of the season! It looked really dark a couple of months ago, but now I would be extremely surprised if you don't make it to playoffs. Thats gonna be even more fun!
After a good start his performance was dropping, but luckily after being recalled he seems to have developed a lot. I hope he's not pairing up with Dumba anymore - he's dangerous!