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Coach Pär Mårts featured an experienced squad for the Karjala Cup.
Head coach Pär Mårts presented last season’s first landslagstrupp.
The World Championships in Moscow in May will Mårts last assignment as coach of the Three Crowns.
– Almost my whole life has been marked out so it feels quite exciting not knowing what will happen after June 1 next year, says Mårts.
Coach Pär Mårts presented last season’s first landslagstrupp.
World Championships in Moscow in May will Mårts last assignment as coach of the Three Crowns.
– Almost my whole life has been marked out so it feels quite exciting not knowing what will happen after June 1 next year, says Mårts.
– As a hockey coach thinks you Always on the next thing and it stops almost never up and enjoy. Therefore, it feels like a freedom that I do not already know what the next step in life will be.
The 62-year-old Pär Mårts are on the final stretch. In all cases as coach.
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At a hotel in Stockholm he presented on Monday Tre Kronor squad for the season’s first national team tournament Karjala Cup, being held in Örnsköldsvik and Helsinki.
Thus, the countdown begin.
The Spring Championships in Moscow becomes Pär Mårts last championships as head of the Three Crowns. After the World Cup taking the Junior crown current coach Rikard
On Par Mårts track record over time as coach, he appeared before the 2010-11 season, include a World Championship gold in 2013 at home in Stockholm and Olympic silver in 2014 Sochi.
– If you want to develop as a hockey coach is great to get the chance to work as a coach. I feel I am a much better hockey leader today than I was when I started this job. You get the opportunity to travel the world, see different cultures and meet all these people. It gives a lot, and you learn a lot both as a person and as a leader, says Pär Mårts.
– In addition, it is luxurious there is little time between games. It provides a time to reflect both of the matches that have been played and to be played, continues Mårts.
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How do you think you have changed as a leader over the years as coach?
– I think I have become tougher and that I better have learned me to move on after adversity. It blows more at the top, but have this job, one must tolerate it, says Pär Mårts.
– I also think that I have achieved greater clarity in myself of how I want the team to play .
When coach Mårts presented the season’s first landslagstrupp was a squad with great routine. The squad for the Karjala Cup include players who Staffan Kronwall, Joel Lundqvist and Jimmie Ericsson.
The squad only debutant is Skellefteå forward Martin Lundberg.
The decision to invest in an experienced squad is a conscious choice by coach Pär Mårts.
– I have felt we were previously young, little valpiga and a little greener, he explains.
When presentation of the squad for the Karjala Cup also told Mårts that he and assistant coach Peter Popovic during the summer sketched a plan B for the Tre Kronor to play.
As the opponents have become adept at read the Swedish game, they have also become adept at finding effective ways to stop it, but now opponents by surprise again.
– We wanted to find something new to work on since we last season noticed that teams played differently against us, says Pär Mårts.
How to Plan B looks in detail he would not be going into.
– The other teams will have to think about what it involves, he says with a smile.
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