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2 Assists for Wallinder today in a 4-3 OT Loss
Prospect Info: Swedish Prospects 2021-22 Season
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Isn’t this true for most high skill level prospects? That element of confidence that the plays you think you see are actually there and that you are capable of converting on them. You’ve got some guys like Raymond who exudes confidence, and you’ve got guys like Zadina who looks like he’s uncertain of all the decisions he makes.
You have Mo Seider with as much swagger as any prospect in the game and the confidence to take on anyone in the league. And you have the Dennis Cholowski’s who end up looking terrified to make a mistake, and that ends up becoming more and more mistakes.
I’m very pleased to see Wallinder in this element. Rogle is clearly giving young players the freedom to create and play their game without limitations. Go be great hockey players. Usually at the pro level of any country you lose that approach. We heard about Seider playing reserved in Mannheim. Raymond playing reserved in Frolunda. People are aware of some of the coaching philosophies that we’ve seen locally in Detroit or GR over the years.
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Love the way the Rogle announcer rolls his R's. Heard it a ton with Seider, last year, and now Wallinder giving me those same vibes.
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Did Mursak think he was going to be all Brett Hull leading with the skate and not the stick, there? wow. Great play by LDN.
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That's fair. At first blush it looked like the defender just but the blade on top of Mursak's stick, but on further inspection he hooked under.
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Now this is definitely something to be excited about. The little glimpse of hope we need after a rough start to the season…
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And he's doing it on a defense-first Frolunda team. That's pretty impressive.
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His hands were never in doubt. But man, has his skating improved so much this year. I'm going to say 1 year in Grand Rapids and then over to Detroit full time in 2023-24.
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It's f***in incredible when I lsee him, I only see the re-incarnation of "Mario Lemieux", because he is so damn big like Lemieux was relatively on that time, and how damn skilled/mobile he is.
6th rounder?
Think this will be Håkan unbelieveable strike again, at the level of Datsyuk and Zetterberg. And one of the best draft picks ever in our history.
I was another person who was concerned with Wallinder's lack of production last season. However, it seems like this off-season everything fell into place and we're looking at yet another guy who can come in and fight for a top 4 spot on this team.
Our defensive pipeline is somehow only getting more absurd as time goes on, it really is incredible. We've gone from producing one top 4 D in 15 years (Hronek) to potentially 5 since Stevie took over.
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Eh, I wouldn't go that far. But like I do believe that if Soderblom hits we're talking about a guy that's got Johan Franzen or Freddy Modin type top 6 potential. Maybe even JVR as a consistent 20 to 30 goal threat. And the good news is we don't have to worry that much about some knucklehead targeting him with a headshot so that's something.
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ive been thinking during the whirled's the past several years that the swedes are out developing /thinking other nations .
now im seeing the same thing in our swede prospects . my guess is the swedes have built the best development system on earth .
now im seeing the same thing in our swede prospects . my guess is the swedes have built the best development system on earth .
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Eh...I also wouldn't go that far. Sweden has been sagging on the international stage the last couple of years in comparison to Finland, Canada, USA and Russia. But Hakan Anderson is one of the best scouts in the world and the only other guy in Sweden that can hold a candle to his ability is Tomas Gradin in Vancouver. He's finding the right ones.
Detroit is also really investing in the kids there. It's such a simple idea to have your retired almost-hall of famers as your boots on the ground in their native country that it's genius. That resource is paying dividends, and I haven't heard of any other teams doing the same for their overseas prospects. I'd love to have Zetterberg start working with some of these kids in the same capacity as Kronwall.
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They still can't develop an elite center to save there life.
The center position in Swedish hockey is played a lot closer to how a midfielder in soccer plays. That's a big part of it. In North American hockey they put the best players at center but over in Sweden they put them on wing.
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And Steve Yzerman said the same.
And people still think we should send prospects to Griffins.
No we shouldn't. Send them to Sweden.
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I definitely thought Wallinder was a bust after the WJC last year. Maybe it was because I didn’t think he looked very good at the WJC. Or maybe I naively thought that statistically one of these Swedish kids was going to have to bust and I didn’t think it was gonna be Raymond/Neiderbach/Soderblom. But maybe they all can pan out
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