National team manager Tobias Johansson has selected 22 players for the international matches at Jordal Amfi on February 7th and 8th.
The hockey guys will gather in Oslo on Tuesday, February 4th and will have a few days together to prepare before the matches on Friday and Saturday. On Friday night, Denmark will be the opponent, while Saturday's match will be played against either France or Austria (depending on Friday's result).
- When it comes to forwards, we want players who are strong skaters, strong in duels, responsible and loyal to the system. We think we had a very good selection in Slovakia in December, but then there has been a bit of natural rotation now for this collection, Johansson explains before taking us through the rest of the selection.
"Noah lives his life in Örebro in the SHL, and when we saw him play for us in Slovakia we could clearly see how 20 SHL games have really taken him to a new level and developed him as a player. He has gone from being a hard-working player to someone who can really handle the puck and run the game with the puck at an international level."