Speaking of Henriksson, if he keeps it up how good are his chances a. to be called up to SHL and b. to be invited to WJC?
They discussed Henriksson in the studio before the Lulea game. Frölunda has an issue with 14 forwards (excluding Henriksson) that easily belongs in the SHL. One expert argued that it was great, keeps everyone on their toes. The other one said that it was problematic because it was going to be very tough for everyone to have established good players benched for stretches — and in addition he referred to Henriksson and said that they had a 01’ born in the U20 who is really good and has hit the roof down there and need a bigger challenge but Frölunda don’t even remotely have room for him.
Being loaned to Allsvenskan is an option. But those teams can only make two loans (skaters) per season (
Överenskommelse om spelarlån).
The WJC break is fairly long. Is any of the attractive organizations interested of taking Karl now, being without him for like a months for the WJC, before they get him back?
I am not very concerned though. It’s of course hard to tell, but my take is that I every day of the week would like to see a kid play at a too low level than the opposite or someone barely playing at all.
Besides, Frölunda likes to pride themselves as being the hardest training team in the world off ice. Henriksson is surely put to work there. I also know that we have a great relationship with Frolunda, exchange ideas on training methods etc. I am sure we are in the loop.