I don’t see that much similarities between their playing styles and best abilities. Klingberg is a very high profile dangler defenceman. He can also pass very nicely and quickly but he doesn’t pass that much with long and hard passes. He is most of all about exceptional hands, great offensive IQ and very good waterbug type of skating. But he isn’t that much about a booming shot and making really long and hard passes accurately. Those things are exactly Thomson’s bread and butter, but he isn’t really that much of a dangler or a clear 4th forward like Klingberg is. I mean, he can definitely dangle also, but he isn’t doing it nearly as much as Klingberg does and in such small space as Klingberg often does. Thomson does it more when he gets close to full speed on the open ice.
Sure there is really good potential in Thomson too, but I don’t see him becoming a similar player that Klingberg is. Even if Thomson will become a real star player at some point, he will most probably be quite different from Klingberg. Also Klingberg is 186 cm tall and weighs only about 80 kg so he is really quite a waterbug by body type, while Thomson is only 182 cm tall but weighs already 86 kg as a youngster, so he is much sturdier built by his body type than Klingberg. Sure they are both blonds and come from Nordic neighbouring countries, but outside of those facts I don’t see that much similarities between them.
