RD Victor Soderstrom (2019, 11th, ARZ)

[NuxFan09]

Arozona-@ D will be rrally good in 2 years.

Especially if OEL can comeback from his injuries, and play the way he is capable of.

You wonder if the Coyotes will trade OEL and give the blueline over to Chychrun and Soderstrom. Not that keeping OEL would be a bad thing. I just wonder if there's a possible need there to sweep out the old guard.

 

[VictorLustig]

You wonder if the Coyotes will trade OEL and give the blueline over to Chychrun and Soderstrom. Not that keeping OEL would be a bad thing. I just wonder if there's a possible need there to sweep out the old guard.

"Sweeping out the old guard" and putting your future in the hands of prospects won't end well. Söderström is a good prospect but he's probably a couple of years away from being an impact NHL player and we don't know yet what type of impact he will make.

 

[rt]

You wonder if the Coyotes will trade OEL and give the blueline over to Chychrun and Soderstrom. Not that keeping OEL would be a bad thing. I just wonder if there's a possible need there to sweep out the old guard.

All of Stepan, Grabner, Hjalmarsson, Goligoski, Demers, and Oesterle will be UFA after next season. I’d be surprised if any are re-signed.

 

[VictorLustig]

Looks like his America trip will have to wait. Not only that, he's sick and will miss Brynäs final game today.

 

[thefutures]

He's making the jump to Arizona next season. Looks like the coyotes have seen enough and want him in the line up. Anyone know what kind of role he will play?

 

[Dirtyf1ghter]

He would be 4th or 5th if the eligibility was pushed back to 19 years. Arizona was right when they ranked him 3st.

 

[MMC]

Will play in the playoffs, if allowed:

5. Over the last week or so, the NHL has asked its teams to submit the names of AHLers/prospects that could be added to their rosters for the proposed Phase 3 (training camps) and Phase 4 (games). There isn’t total certainty, as the NHL and NHLPA sort out whether teams can add newly signed players for 2019–20. Unless that is allowed, defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis and Vegas won’t have many surprises.

• Arizona is adding 2019 first-rounder Victor Soderstrom.

31 Thoughts: Hockey, NHL pushing forward on multiple fronts - Sportsnet.ca

 

[Nabrules]

I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong about Soderstrom. I didn’t think he had the offence to be anything more than a decent 2nd pair dman and didn’t get why some people rated him in the top 10 next year. After watching him this year it definitely seems like he does have top pair potential

 

[theslatcher]

Victor Söderström nästa spelare till allsvenskan

Sounds like he'll start the season in Allsvenskan with AIK.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Victor Söderström nästa spelare till allsvenskan

Sounds like he'll start the season in Allsvenskan with AIK.

Literally, the next player. And with that i mean, the number of (young) players with NHL contracts
who has "left"* to play into European leagues...50+ already.
- who's next?

* left or stayed

 

[Ryan Van Horne]

Beautiful spin-o-rama at the blueline leads to top-shelf snipe for Soderstrom.


And another angle ...

 

[57special]

More a Denis Savard than a Serge spin.

 

[Ryan Van Horne]

More a Denis Savard than a Serge spin.

As someone who grew up listening to Danny Gallivan use "Savardian spin-o-ram" to describe first Serge, and then Denis, I know of what you speak.

 

[CLW]

Söderström was left out of the Swedish WJC team, along with Björnfot and Broberg. The Swedish head coach said he was 'afraid' the NHL pre-season might start and take them out of the troop around the time of the tournament.

 

[theslatcher]

Söderström was left out of the Swedish WJC team, along with Björnfot and Broberg. The Swedish head coach said he was 'afraid' the NHL pre-season might start and take them out of the troop around the time of the tournament.

Wrong. He was left out of the pre-WJC U20 November team playing 3 games vs Finland.

 

[TheKingSlayer]

No talk about him whatsoever during this tournament. What are people thinking?

 

[PuckPoise]

No talk about him whatsoever during this tournament. What are people thinking?

Was expecting more thus far but only one game where it hasn't been mostly garbage time. Remaining games will be a good indicator of where he stands. Don't know the ins and outs of Arizona of course but the way they've been handling him I think they expected a bigger leap at this point.

Broberg, Söderström, Björnfot getting beat wide in a World Juniors tournament are not great signs for their NHL readiness.

 

[NotLeddy]

He was completely overwhelmed the entire tournament, bad turnovers/giveaways, getting caught out of position, getting caught in his own zone endless times. Poor gap control, poor defensive reaction, just an all around bad WJCs showing from all 5 games that I watched.

Johansson had a few brainfarts too, but I thought it was really frustrating having Soderstrom as his primary D partner 5v5, and many times their shifts were too much time defending instead of creating offense because of mistakes Soderstrom had created that led to the other teams getting possession.

People can criticize Broberg for his WJCs all they want, and I thought yeah, he had a rough tournament. But I do think Soderstrom's poor tournament was a bigger factor in Sweden underacheiving than Broberg was.

 

[theslatcher]

He was completely overwhelmed the entire tournament, bad turnovers/giveaways, getting caught out of position, getting caught in his own zone endless times. Poor gap control, poor defensive reaction, just an all around bad WJCs showing from all 5 games that I watched.

Johansson had a few brainfarts too, but I thought it was really frustrating having Soderstrom as his primary D partner 5v5, and many times their shifts were too much time defending instead of creating offense because of mistakes Soderstrom had created that led to the other teams getting possession.

People can criticize Broberg for his WJCs all they want, and I thought yeah, he had a rough tournament. But I do think Soderstrom's poor tournament was a bigger factor in Sweden underacheiving than Broberg was.

He was great in the first 2 games, and period 2 onwards vs Russia, but yeah, aside for that he didn't play like himself. Johansson was the weaker of the two, though.

 

[NotLeddy]

He was great in the first 2 games, and period 2 onwards vs Russia, but yeah, aside for that he didn't play like himself. Johansson was the weaker of the two, though.

I disagree, all the goals that were scored against that pairing weren't pretty, but all the high danger shot attempts that led to the goals themselves were due to Soderstrom's bad positioning/gap control than Johansson simply struggling to prevent zone entries (first goal vs Russia, first goal vs Finland tonight/the second goal vs Finland that was called offside because Johansson moved the puck outside the blue line).

Johansson did a more effective job at getting himself out of trouble/regaining puck possession when Sweden was pinned in their own zone than Soderstrom did, he was able to have less hectic/and shorter shifts in the D zone with Bjornfot than he did with Soderstrom.

 

[theslatcher]

I disagree, all the goals that were scored against that pairing weren't pretty, but all the high danger shot attempts that led to the goals themselves were due to Soderstrom's bad positioning/gap control than Johansson simply struggling to prevent zone entries (first goal vs Russia, first goal vs Finland tonight/the second goal vs Finland that was called offside because Johansson moved the puck outside the blue line).

Johansson did a more effective job at getting himself out of trouble/regaining puck possession when Sweden was pinned in their own zone than Soderstrom did, he was able to have less hectic/and shorter shifts in the D zone with Bjornfot than he did with Soderstrom.

Björnfot was Sweden's best dman, and frankly only good one in the top-4. He made everybody better because he was a rock defensively, saying x played better with him is obviously true. Everybody did. He made Drew Doughty look good.

 

[Dr Quincy]

I disagree, all the goals that were scored against that pairing weren't pretty, but all the high danger shot attempts that led to the goals themselves were due to Soderstrom's bad positioning/gap control than Johansson simply struggling to prevent zone entries (first goal vs Russia, first goal vs Finland tonight/the second goal vs Finland that was called offside because Johansson moved the puck outside the blue line).

Johansson did a more effective job at getting himself out of trouble/regaining puck possession when Sweden was pinned in their own zone than Soderstrom did, he was able to have less hectic/and shorter shifts in the D zone with Bjornfot than he did with Soderstrom.

Completely disagree. Johansson was far worse IMO, with fewer positive plays. But I expect a lot more than what Soderstrom delivered.

 

[drw02]

Thought Soderstrom, Johansson, and Bjornfot were all disappointing. Broberg had some nice shifts that displayed higher end talent but still was just ok overall.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

No talk about him whatsoever during this tournament. What are people thinking?

not impressive but Sweden in general has been kind of underwhelming

 

[pgfan66]

Somehow Sweden's D has been bad in many recent tournaments. I remember the whole group around Helge Grans and William Wallinder being awful at the Hlinka last year and again struggling at the 5 Nations in Feb. Not sure what that's all about but the U20 just continued the trend.

I still like Söderström a lot but I honestly haven't seen him in Sweden since his draft year.