I doubt Raymond is among the initial 55, since Swedish coaches generally play their oldest players instead of their best. A trend Mike Babcock commented on with sarcastic words after winning his last Olympics with Canada. I guess Burakovsky or Bratt could make the team given Gatpenlov like all Swedish coaches were not open and observant enough to see see how Raymond performed during training camp. Someone should write Swedish journalist and federation to complain over this obsession. Happened to Dahlin playing in a super unimaginative team last Olympics.
I would like to see a bit more from him at this stage, but before the season started he felt given. The coach has given him everything from 10 to 18 minutes per game. He has been a bit too uneven, but yeah, I am hoping he will recover.
On the other hand the coaching team in Sweden always picks the oldest before the most creative, and hope they can find the puck from Canada and play their straightjacket obvious passes and score, so Raymond won’t have been chosen to the 55, due to his lack of experience, though a blind man following the training camp could see he could have this kind of breakthrough. So if you throw out Raymond, one of our few PPG players, Burakovsky would fit.
Lindholm and Ekholm are maybies. Klingberg right now a big NO. Compare him with Heiskanen on the same team: points and plus/minus.
Well no sh*t he’s not on Miro’s level, he’s been preforming like a Norris candidate of late, and please tell me you did not mention plus/minus as a stat to compare players, it’s one of the worst.
I know Klingberg isn’t having the best start to the year, but judging him off of 9 games compared to the past 5 years is massive recency bias. The most points Andersson had ever is 22 and the least Klingberg got in a single season is 32, I could say the same about Larsson, but he’s here for defensive reasons.
Remove Andersson and put Karlsson with Hedman, Klingberg with Brodin and Larsson with Dahlin.
I know Klingberg isn’t having the best start to the year, but judging him off of 9 games compared to the past 5 years is massive recency bias.
Yes. He wasn’t playing particularly well last year either and is taking that clear trend downward this year. Klingberg has never been the most reliable defensively, but he has made that up by putting up big numbers offensively. When he is not doing that anymore there are better options. Form beats former class. So no thanks.