Confirmed Signing with Link: F Jakob Silfverberg signs with Brynas IF for 2024-25

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[crowi]

Interesting? He is basically 34 when 2024-2025 season begins.

He is already sure he can't get a NHL deal? Perhaps there's an out-clause.

Still feels like he wants to leave NA due to timing of this.

 

[duxfan1101]

Interesting? He is basically 34 when 2024-2025 season begins.

He is already sure he can't get a NHL deal? Perhaps there's an out-clause.

Still feels like he wants to leave NA due to timing of this.

He just wanted to go back to Sweden.

 

[Treb]

Interesting? He is basically 34 when 2024-2025 season begins.

He is already sure he can't get a NHL deal? Perhaps there's an out-clause.

Still feels like he wants to leave NA due to timing of this.

It was announced earlier that he was retiring from NHL hockey after the season.

Jakob Silfverberg announces he will retire after this season

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[Rec T]

Interesting? He is basically 34 when 2024-2025 season begins.

He is already sure he can't get a NHL deal? Perhaps there's an out-clause.

Still feels like he wants to leave NA due to timing of this.

He said that he wants to play at home for a few years while still young enough to be reasonably productive/effective there.

 

[Nanuuk]

Interesting? He is basically 34 when 2024-2025 season begins.

He is already sure he can't get a NHL deal? Perhaps there's an out-clause.

Still feels like he wants to leave NA due to timing of this.

His youngest is entering grade school and he and his wife wanted that to happen in Sweden.

Good for him and I'm glad he was able to play at home.

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

So was he not cutting it in the NHL anymore, or did he just want to go home?

 

[Gliff]

So was he not cutting it in the NHL anymore, or did he just want to go home?

He has been decimated by injuries the last like 4 years. The mind is still there but the body can't cut it.

He likely wouldn't have gotten an NHL contract except maybe a PTO. And the plan was always for him to go back to Brynas to retire.

 

[dumbdick]

Class act. Always loved this player.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

So was he not cutting it in the NHL anymore, or did he just want to go home?

I believe it was last season (or maybe earlier this year) that he told reporters he wanted to finish up his playing career back home

 

[FiveTacos]

He has been decimated by injuries the last like 4 years. The mind is still there but the body can't cut it.

He likely wouldn't have gotten an NHL contract except maybe a PTO. And the plan was always for him to go back to Brynas to retire.

I think he could have gotten a contract as a veteran 4th liner. There's worse players than him out there playing regularly.

It's a little like what Bob Gainey used to say about Carbonneau at the end of his career when told he couldn't skate ... "he knows where to stand."

But he probably only gets a year or two offer at best, and it's probably not worth moving your family an extra time for such a short stint, especially if the long term plan is to finish in Sweden anyway.