Team Sweden 2020 World Cup
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Overall it looks ok, but Stralman? 2020 is 3 years away so he will be 33 then, and he is no Karlsson or Lidstrom. It feels like Kronwall all over again.
What about having 6 1D for the first time ever?
Klefbom - Karlsson
Hedman - Klingberg
OEL - Dahlin
If things goes as projected all will be 1D by the time of the tournament. Dahlin will be 20 then, so if the generational hype is valid, then he should be very close to the team
What about having 6 1D for the first time ever?
Klefbom - Karlsson
Hedman - Klingberg
OEL - Dahlin
If things goes as projected all will be 1D by the time of the tournament. Dahlin will be 20 then, so if the generational hype is valid, then he should be very close to the team
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I disagree, not more than yours. It is just that the best players tends to get the more offensive role, but that do not make them a more offensive player. The offensive player can play defense just as good if not much better than the "shutdown" players normally can. We could see that with Karlsson in ottawa this season. Ottawa the most defensive team in NHL this season and Karlsson leading them. We saw it in WHC, the most offensive skilled team we probably ever have put on the ice in whc, but we won with those offensive players playing a very defensive type of game. The so called offensive players are the best defensivly as well in general with very few exceptions. People just label them as offensive because they succed in a taking the more demanding offensive role in the their club-team, and when a player scores alot of points espically a d-men people look for errors.
Just take Stralman as a example. He was a long time seen as a one dimensional offensive player, but he didnt succed in that in NHL. So instead they put in him a more shutdown role and he was better than most other shutdown players. If anyone would have said that just a year before he went to Rangers people would have laugh. People even then where slow to react to that he actually could play defense, because he has taking the offensive role his whole career up to that point.
So I would say my team is not more offensive than a team with Ekholm and Stralman in the team. Stralman would not have been a worse player defensivly if he would have succed in the offensive role and scored 60p. He would have been the same player but just better.
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Defensemen take longer to develop so it's not guaranteed he'll be good enough by then.
Hampus Lindholm should be in his prime however!
