WC: Team Sweden Roster

[Eye of Ra]

Kuemper and McElhinney are also NHLrs I’d rather not change Hellberg for either one of them.

what makes hellberg better than anders nilsson?

 

[Eye of Ra]

swehockey has confirmed forsberg, arvidsson and ekholm. no news on hörnqvist.

 

[EK47]

what makes hellberg better than anders nilsson?

I think his glove is significantly better, he’s quicker side to side, he’s able to make impossible saves, I haven’t really seen that from Nilsson. Wasnt really what I was saying though I was mainly saying that NHL-goalie >>> non-NHL-goalie is not always true.

On another note I thought Hellberg was good today, he made a few really advanced saves and the goals he let in was mainly his defensemen letting him down.

 

[theslatcher]

swehockey has confirmed forsberg, arvidsson and ekholm. no news on hörnqvist.

They'll play tomorrow? Sweet.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Maybe Elias Pettersson should be tried with Rakell and Zibanejad against swiss?

Assuming Arvidsson will play:

Rakell - Zibanejad - Elias
Arvidsson - Backlund - Nyquist
Lias - Kempe - Janmark
JDLR - Larsson - Pääjärvi

Everberg out.

 

[EK47]

They'll play tomorrow? Sweet.

I think only Arvissson will play tomorrow. Forsberg and Ekholm had to catch a later flight or something like that.

 

[Eye of Ra]

They'll play tomorrow? Sweet.

only arvidsson, maybe. forsberg and ekholm will come 14 may.

 

[Eye of Ra]

f*** sake if hörnqvist does not come. he is what we need with his grit and play in front of net.

 

[theslatcher]

only arvidsson, maybe. forsberg and ekholm will come 14 may.

So, what you're saying Hörnqvist isn't confirmed? He has been for a while, I even linked one article earlier that included him saying he's coming. The first one of these:

NHL-stjärnan bekräftar: Ansluter till VM
Bekräftat: Patric Hörnqvist till VM
Bekräftat: Patric Hörnqvist ansluter till VM-truppen - Radiosporten

 

[EK47]

**** sake if hörnqvist does not come. he is what we need with his grit and play in front of net.

I think the edge that Forsberg and Arvidsson provides is way more important, plus they’re both quite gritty, remember Arvy is called arvi hustle in Nashville.

 

[Eye of Ra]

So, what you're saying Hörnqvist isn't confirmed? He has been for a while, I even linked one article earlier that included him saying he's coming. The first one of these:

NHL-stjärnan bekräftar: An****er till VM
Bekräftat: Patric Hörnqvist till VM
Bekräftat: Patric Hörnqvist an****er till VM-truppen - Radiosporten

but none of this is swehockey. swehockey has confirmed nashville players but not hörnqvist, why is that?

 

[theslatcher]

I think only Arvissson will play tomorrow. Forsberg and Ekholm had to catch a later flight or something like that.

Yeah, I was caught off guard by Ra saying Hörnqvist isn't confirmed, which he has been for a while. Arvi took an earlier flight because he had his exit-meeting with Nashville a day before Forsberg, and Ekholm had to wait for his newborn's passport.

 

[theslatcher]

but none of this is swehockey. swehockey has confirmed nashville players but not hörnqvist, why is that?

Doesn't matter if they haven't come out and said it if Hörnqvist himself has said he's arriving in time to play against Russia.

 

[EK47]

Yeah, I was caught off guard by Ra saying Hörnqvist isn't confirmed, which he has been for a while. Arvi took an earlier flight because he had his exit-meeting with Nashville a day before Forsberg, and Ekholm had to wait for his newborn's passport.

I’m not so sure, Hörnqvist had the same issue as Ekholm, but he was quoted somewhere saying that everything had been cleared yesterday. However that swehockey hasn’t actually confirmed it is weird.

 

[theslatcher]

I’m not so sure, Hörnqvist had the same issue as Ekholm, but he was quoted somewhere saying that everything had been cleared yesterday. However that swehockey hasn’t actually confirmed it is weird.

Could have something to do with them only announcing it after the registration of players is complete & confirmed, and the process takes some time. Took them half a day to announce the Nashville players, so we should see a Hörnqvist article at lunch tomorrow.

 

[Lampedampe]

You were saying? Tolvanen with 1+1 vs canada

Oh so no sarcasm.

Not even worth arguing.

 

[Retroglyphs]

what makes hellberg better than anders nilsson?

Haven't you watched today's match? He made some clutch saves on point blank Slovak shots. He's been superb in the exhibition matches vs. Denmark as well. I'm sure he'll be Grönborg's starting goaltender in the QF.

 

[theslatcher]

Hellberg has been great so far, idk if I'd say better than Nilsson just because of the fact Nilsson hasn't gotten the chance to prove himself yet, Nilsson will most likely start tomorrow against the Swiss so we can make a better estimation after that.