Sweden becomes a gold favorites in this year’s World Junior Hockey.
The Swedish delegation which spent the week in the US has namely been removed William Nylander from Toronto and Adrian Kempe from Los Angeles.
– It will be damn funny, actually, says Kempe Expressen.
Junior crowns are building together a true strong team for the tournament being held in Finland starting on Boxing Day. Sport Bladet wrote on Wednesday about how a Swedish delegation of the Secretary General Tommy Boustedt, Peter Forsberg and SHL’s president and sporting director, Jörgen Lindgren and John Hemlin been in place in the United States during the week to arrange NHL Swedes JVM squad. The three current Swedes were William Nylander, Adrian Kempe (Los Angeles) and Oliver Kylington (Calgary).
All of the currently playing AHL hockey and when they should, according to the agreement between the NHL and the Swedish Ice Hockey Association, released to Junior World Championships.
“Great Fun”
However, it had been speculated that Toronto does not want to let William Nylander, who convinced a lot in the AHL and is located in the top of the scoring leaders.
– They just wanted to look at some things and come back. I do not see this as a problem, said Peter Forsberg Sportbladet on the situation Wednesday.
Today it is clear that the junior crowns will be strengthened. Forsberg confirmed to Expressen that it had received the go-ahead to call both Nylander and Kempe championship.
– It feels great to get to play the Junior World Championships again. It will be pretty damn funny, actually, says Kempe Expressen.
Both Kempe and Nylander played in last year’s tournament in Canada.
FOOTNOTE: This year’s tournament is played Helsinki between 26 December and 5 January.
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