Just a couple of updates to bring together today. As always, check out the team line-ups on their respective pages (accessed via the main menu).
Skellefteå
Skellefteå have promoted seven junior players to their squad for Wednesday’s training match against MoDo. I’ve decided not to update the main Team Line-Up to reflect this, as it’s not going to be representative of the team they will be using in future.
For completeness, these are the lines as stated on Skellefteå’s official website.
Forwards
14 A. Johnson – 22 J. Johnson – 28 Brandsegg-Nygård
19 Dzierkals – 33 Z. Forsfjäll – 26 Heikkinen
11 M. Lindholm – 17 P. Lindholm – 20 Eriksson
27 Vuollet – 12 V. Lindberg – 73 Nordlund
40 Ekblad
Defensemen
2 Sundqvist – 64 Pudas
25 Johansson – 52 Lundberg
4 Bergqvist – 58 Nilsson
29 Lindfors
Goalkeepers
30 Lindvall
( 31 Törnqvist).
MoDo
As for MoDo, there is an interesting interview on HockeyNews.SE today by Matthias Persson with MoDo’s Sporting Director Henrik Gradin.
The main news is that defenseman Mattias Norlinder is still training with the team. The expectation is that he will pursue a two-way contract with an NHL team, but one to his liking has not been put on the table as yet. That leaves the door open for a return to MoDo, although Gradin is doing his best to dampen down expectations.
The other news concerns centre Adam Pettersson who has had a setback in his return from injury. In truth, it’s likely he might have left MoDo this summer if he hadn’t been rehabbing so this setback probably doesn’t have much impact on Gradin’s team-building plans.
