Swedish National Men's Ice Hockey Team

He had to work for everything he got.

So, um, I would say maybe the first time he g- he got called to a Team Sweden camp, uh-

Mm

... a couple years back, where they, they've seen him a few times and, and, um, and got called for the n- like, a national team camp for them.

Mm-hmm.

Of course, this one being on the football pitch.

And yeah, it's, it, so he, he alluded to him getting called up to a, uh, Team Sweden youth national team.

Mm-hmm.

I think every one of these guys wants to be the captain of a team.

And I think even if you're Leo, you can put the effort out and be like, Leo is a future captain of Team Sweden for sure.

So I'm curious how that all plays out for them, and we'll see how it goes.

But Mikael Grandlund, your 10th Anaheim Ducks captain.

The team was full of Olympians from a variety of countries.

Sam Bennett, Sam Reinhardt, Alexander Barkov, the Kachuk brothers from Team USA, Matthew and Brady on the blue line, Gustav Forsling from Team Sweden in gold, Jacob Markstrom from Team Sweden, Seth Jones on the blue line, who would have played for the UFC if he was healthy.

They played all their guys.

What are we doing here? We're not auditioning anybody is the point.

I also said Suter, Devo would be on their teams.

And then I was predicting Thomas, Holloway, and... uh binnington to make team canada uh what are we too short oh and pareko i said pareko would make team canada and then the last one which we when we talked about it i went back and listened because i was like how bold was this the last one i said broberg would make team sweden and we were talking about that like it was the most bold part of it uh And that that checked out.

So I'm feeling good about the Broberg call.

Anyway, I was really like, turns out way too optimistic about Robert Thomas and especially Dylan Holloway and their ability to make the team.

So those are the those are the two that missed and everyone else did make it.

Um, But if I had to only be right about one of those players, I'm glad.

I'm glad Philip Broberg made Team Sweden because that was

cool to see him get that recognition on the international level.

So, yeah, I'm a little curious to see how they're going to manage that and how those two backup goalies are going to be able to deal when Linus Ulmark is going to be absent.

I find it interesting, like, with, like, Matej Swok, like, his connection to Ulmark, Urson with Team Sweden.

they've given him a lot of power and it worked out like last year, like when he came into the fold and Allmark turned it around.

And if that happened, like, I don't, you can have all of Allmark's best 25 buddies working for the team.

He's solid in the face-off dot, and he is a guy that's kind of like a glue guy who keeps everybody kind of even keel.

He was an associate captain for Team Sweden at the Olympics.

I believe he is an associate captain for the New York Rangers this and he's a guy whose game is just so much fun to watch.

And you know he's out there, too, because he's got that long black hair.

I just go back to watching Team Sweden and just how deflated he was when they lost.

He loves hockey, too.

Him and Gabriel Landeskog.