Erik Karlsson with spouse Melinda.

Photograph: Suvad Mrkonjic/Bildbyrån

Melinda Karlsson.

Photograph: Suvad Mrkonjic/Bildbyrån

Within the hockey WC, Erik Karlsson has been a powerful contributor to Tre Kronor profitable all of the video games.

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Erik Karlsson, 33, is certainly one of Sweden’s greatest stars.

Photograph: Maxim Thoré/Bildbyrån

Erik Karlsson, 33, is certainly one of Sweden’s greatest stars on this 12 months’s hockey World Cup, which takes place within the Czech Republic in the course of the month of Could.

That is the primary time since 2016 that Karlsson represents Sweden in a global competitors context.

Quite a bit has occurred since then.

Within the meantime, Karlsson has change into a father of two and married Melinda Currey, whom he proposed to in autumn 2016.

Melinda accepted after having the ring delivered to her – in a pizza field.

– It is true! Our first date was really at a pizzeria and we like pizza quite a bit. Once I was going to suggest, I drove a quick supply on the road to shock her.

Was it profitable?

– Sure, as a result of she has at all times mentioned that she would know once I would suggest to her. She’s good at figuring issues out, so I needed to pull out my finest playing cards and I nonetheless managed to shock her. She will admit it in the present day, that I succeeded fairly nicely. I am glad it labored out.

Revealing the way it occurred

Karlsson says that the proposal required planning.

Along with an area pizza baker in Ottawa, the place the couple relies, he managed to shock her in a metropolis sq..

– We needed to reduce a gap within the center, so the ring was there. The ring was secured, so no cheese might lay on it. Then we all know a man who owns a pizzeria the place we ate quite a bit and he despatched an individual from the restaurant that Melinda did not acknowledge. He came to visit and mentioned we had ordered pizza, she simply answered “no, no, we have not ordered something, we’re in the course of a sq.”. Then she opened the field after which I ran the entire thing after that.

That very same night the couple had been engaged, and if Erik could say so himself, it could not have gone higher.

– That is as romantic as I will be, I believe, concludes Karlsson with fun.

Erik and Melinda Karlsson have two kids, Harlow and Stellan, collectively.

Within the hockey WC, Erik Karlsson has been a powerful contributor to Tre Kronor profitable all matches within the Czech Republic. He has produced six factors, distributed amongst three targets and three assists.

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Philip Cederqvist.

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In January, Expressen was able to tell that Filip Cederqvist, after two seasons in North America, chooses to move back home to Sweden.

Cederqvist, who originally comes from Skara, has signed for three years with the Gothenburgers.

– When I was little, I attended Frölunda. Kallio (Tomi) was my favorite and I still have a number 71 shirt at home. It is a good time to come to Frölunda right now, he says to the club’s website.

Already finished last winter

Despite his young age, Filip Cederqvist has quite a lot of experience in SHL games. He came up in Växjö’s organization, but never took a real place. It was Tingsryd, where the breakthrough came. A short loan to HV71 was also in that vein, before he had his big SHL breakthrough in Djurgården. The 23-year-old also got to represent Tre kronor.

When Djurgården left, Cederqvist was ready to play in Leksand, but never got to represent the club. Instead, he signed an NHL contract, but in Buffalo’s organization there was never an NHL game and last winter he was ready for Frölunda, who can now present his signing.

– Filip is a player from the region who has good size and is a good skater. We like the character and he has the tools to be a power forward. He has shown that before, comments Fredrik Sjöström.

John Nyberg.

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That HV71 recruits John Nyberg has been an open secret.

Expressen has previously told about it and now it is official that it will be so.

Nyberg has previously played SHL hockey for Frölunda, Brynäs and Linköping. Now games await in his fourth SHL club.

– There have always been good matches when I have played here as an opponent, so I am really looking forward to having Husqvarna Garden as my home ground. I hope to contribute with a stable defensive and also be a threat in the offensive zone, says John Nyberg himself in a comment.

Recruited from the archrival

John Nyberg recently arrived from Linköping. He has been with the club for the past three seasons. In fact, he is coming off his best scoring season since returning to Sweden from the Dallas Stars organization in 2020.

But it is not primarily to score points that HV71 recruits him. But for a stable two-way game.

– In John we get a back who gives us security in the defensive, but also with an offensive upside and a good shot. He does not shy away from using his size and is happy to be active in the physical game, says Kent Norberg, director of sports in HV71, in a press release.