WC: WC: 2024 Team Sweden Roster Talk

[Eye of Ra]

Slim pickings for the fourth slot.

Lindberg would be ideal

 

[EK47]

Lindberg would be ideal

Far and away the best center option available to them in Europe.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Nyquist - Karlsson - Nylander
Kempe - Eriksson Ek - Raymond
Burakovsky - Holmberg/Engvall/Järnkrok - Zetterlund
M Johansson - Lindberg - Friberg
Olofsson, Lundeström

Hedman - EK
Brodin - Dahlin
Pettersson - Liljegren/Sandin

 

[Svedu]

Everything other than gold is a failure for you guys this year. Sweden are the clear favorites for gold imho.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Everything other than gold is a failure for you guys this year. Sweden are the clear favorites for gold imho.

Usa, Canada and the Swiss have great teams. Finland with Jalonen are always deadly.

 

[m4tt145]

Holmberg in per Sportbladet

 

[Playmaker82]

Grundström as well. He has accepted, just awaiting approval by Kings.

 

[RKBoy]

Everything other than gold is a failure for you guys this year. Sweden are the clear favorites for gold imho.

i would put them in the same bracket with USA, but yeah, if they dont make atleast a final it is going to be taken as huge disappoitment.

 

[weklof]

With Grundström and Holmberg:


Filip Gustavsson
Jesper Wallstedt
Samuel Ersson

Rasmus Dahlin - Jonas Brodin
Victor Hedman - Erik Karlsson
Marcus Pettersson - Tim Heed

Andre Burakovsky - Joel Eriksson Ek - Lucas Raymond
Victor Olofsson - Pontus Holmberg - Adrian Kempe
Carl Grundström - Marcus Johansson - Fabian Zetterlund
Joakim Nygård - Isac Lundström - Max Friberg

 

[Janvonpobben]

With Grundström and Holmberg:


Filip Gustavsson
Jesper Wallstedt
Samuel Ersson

Rasmus Dahlin - Jonas Brodin
Victor Hedman - Erik Karlsson
Marcus Pettersson - Tim Heed

Andre Burakovsky - Joel Eriksson Ek - Lucas Raymond
Victor Olofsson - Pontus Holmberg - Adrian Kempe
Carl Grundström - Marcus Johansson - Fabian Zetterlund
Joakim Nygård - Isac Lundström - Max Friberg

Offense is terrible. Only raymond and kempe

 

[EK47]

Could really use one of Nylander and Nyquist. Or both.

 

[VictorLustig]

i would put them in the same bracket with USA, but yeah, if they dont make atleast a final it is going to be taken as huge disappoitment.

Meh. The US is leaning on inexperienced kids who have never played in a loud arena before. As per usual they will go out in the semis at latest.

 

[theslatcher]

First round recap:

Tampa (Hedman, J.Johansson)

Toronto (W.Nylander, Holmberg, Liljegren)

Capitals (Sandin)

Isles (Engvall, Holmström, Aho)

Jets (D.Gustafsson)

Preds (F.Forsberg, Nyquist)

Vegas (W.Karlsson)

Kings (Kempe, Arvidsson, Englund, Grundström)

Bolded: Injury/FA
Strike-through: Declined/Not invited
Underlined: Accepted

 

[Eye of Ra]

Holmberg and Grundström are good adds. This is Grundströms third WC in row. He loves to play for the NT.

Offense is terrible. Only raymond and kempe

Yeah Eriksson Ek is terrible?

 

[RKBoy]

Meh. The US is leaning on inexperienced kids who have never played in a loud arena before. As per usual they will go out in the semis at latest.

well i am looking at it just based on the strenght of the rosters.

 

[EK47]

Offense is terrible. Only raymond and kempe

Burakovsky looked pretty good against Finland. But he might be more dependent on skilled linemates than Raymond.

 

[weklof]

Offense is terrible. Only raymond and kempe

It is good enough for this tournament. It is not like Canada is rolling out McDavid or The Czechs Pasta.

Sure wouldn't hurt with some more elite skill, but this is still one of the strongest forward groups in the tournament. A lot of offence will also come from the back end. Dahlin and Karlsson will generate a lot of scoring chances

 

[weklof]

Gold has to be the expectation with this roster and anything other than a medal would be a massive failure.

Important tournament for Hallam. Losing the QF against Latvia last year was a massive disappointment, but I gave Hallam the benefit of the doubt because it was his first season. This year and with this roster he doesn't have that, if we get knocked out if the QFs I will start calling for his head

 

[Eye of Ra]

Yes, if we fail, Hallam should be kicked. Not sure who should replace him. Rönnberg?

 

[weklof]

Yes, if we fail, Hallam should be kicked. Not sure who should replace him. Rönnberg?

I guess it depends on who the federation can afford. Hopefully it will not be as embarrasing as when the football federation tried to hire a new manager

It will be a hard QF either way, the other group has Canada, Finland, Czechia and Switzerland. So we will face one of those unless a major upset happens. But Hallam spent his get-out-of-jail free card last year.

 

[Eye of Ra]

With Grundström and Holmberg:


Filip Gustavsson
Jesper Wallstedt
Samuel Ersson

Rasmus Dahlin - Jonas Brodin
Victor Hedman - Erik Karlsson
Marcus Pettersson - Tim Heed

Andre Burakovsky - Joel Eriksson Ek - Lucas Raymond
Victor Olofsson - Pontus Holmberg - Adrian Kempe
Carl Grundström - Marcus Johansson - Fabian Zetterlund
Joakim Nygård - Isac Lundström - Max Friberg

Vejdemo instead of Nygård. Vejdemo was better in Czech Hockey Games and he is physical which Nygård is not.

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

Doubtful William Karlsson will come over, he looked like he was playing with an injury in that Dallas series.

 

[EK47]

Doubtful William Karlsson will come over, he looked like he was playing with an injury in that Dallas series.

I think they clarified post-game after game seven that he has been playing with a lower body injury and that’s why he hasn’t been 100% this series.

 

[theslatcher]

Doubtful William Karlsson will come over, he looked like he was playing with an injury in that Dallas series.

He has been yes, Cassidy brought it up post-game but everybody knew he was injured. Has an LBI so they've (the coaches that is) had to think about how much he plays & have him take far fewer faceoffs.

 

[Janvonpobben]

I wonder how long nylander drama will be this year