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Deep Dive #1 - The Nation that will stand
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AlerisSMJHL GM Sundress Spouse
09-07-2024, 11:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2024, 03:59 PM by Aleris. Edited 4 times in total.)
There's been some recent news shaking up the IIHF and with that I would like to throw in my 2 cents on an IIHF Fed. Since Kiwi is Unassigned right now but played in the VCHL for Visby, Sweden. It only makes sense to do a roster breakdown and recent history look at Team Sweden. Sweden has last won gold in S68 and really since then, the IIHF has lost all parity as the Gold Medal has either gone to Ireland or Germany (basically). But Sweden has been the third best federation behind Ireland and Germany since their Gold in S68. They've won 3 bronze medals and 2 silver medals. Sweden is definitely in a transition period, but with announcement of a Quebec Fed. I think Sweden will come out one of the stronger Federations in the IIHF (poor Canada). There's basically 2 camps of Sweden players. Those before S70 and those after. Players in red will obviously be done soon. Players in orange will have a few more seasons and the players in yellow are the core for the next few seasons. S69 - S71. Blue players are newer but will become core soon and green players are from the last two classes S77 and S79.
S60ish players Dogwood Maple - C - S58 Adelie de Pengu - LD - S61 Dave Heinrich - C - S63 Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson - RD - S63 Luke Laraque - RW - S65 M'Baku Olubori - RW - S65 Matsmith Söderberg-Tremblay - LW - S65 Graj Virrok - C - S66 Sven Panda - RD - S67 Rasmus Bergling - RD - S67 Jølngüštrâädüvich DuBølk - LD - S69 John Hopoate - LD - S69 S70 players Tony Soprano - C - S70 Willow Söderberg-Snooks - RD - S70 Johnny FourStar - RW - S71 Andren Akerson - RW - S71 I-Stir MyPudding - RD - S72 Florian Söderberg-Motyla - C - S73 Dag-Otto Björntjänst - C - S74 Will Tomlander - LW - S74 Emil Karlsson - C - S74 Slava-Ukraini Heroyam-Slava - C -S75 Niclas Sundqvist - LD - S75 Violet Stoica - C - S75 Niclas Wastlund - C - S75 Swedish Chef - RW - S77 Pohler Beargeron - C - S77 Kenneth Lind - LD - S79 Jeremy Snugglemuffin III - RD - S79 Abbe Wass - LD - S79 Afb Nohab - C - S79 So looking at just the yellow and blue (i may have colored this very intentionally). We see Sweden has 5 Defensemen and 7 Centers and only 2 Wingers. Really in the next few seasons, Sweden loses a lot of their firepower upfront with players like Mbaku, Dave, and Matsmith aging out. What is even crazier is Sweden had 3 Defesnemen (and defensecats) just created. Putting their future total D players up to 10. Sweden just saw their biggest class create in the last four years with Lind, Snugglemuffin, Wass and Nohab all creating just now in S79. Really creating quite a log jam for Sweden at Defense. Of course itll be a few seasons before these players are ready for the IIHF, but Sweden won't be short players anytime soon. Swedens real future stregnth comes in the form of their two newish goalies,Anastasia Söderström - S76 and Denebor Milasch - S74. Both are young and either just finished up their J careers or starting their SHL careers. Having both goalies will be a massive help in the IIHF tournament. Match that with the overload of Defense and Sweden is going to be a very hard team to score on in the IIHF and when the knockout rounds come down to just one game, you want to have the good goalie and deep defense to rely on. Sweden can figure out the missing Forwards later and even have defensemen they could play there and should never lose a faceoffs with the number of Centers they have. With the shake up of Russia turning into Quebec, I can see Sweden being a real threat in the next few seasons in IIHF just with the natural born players from the Analytics site. This doesn't even include those who are unassigned or might transfer in from Russia. The future is definitely golden in Sweden. ![[Image: 35broks.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/35broks.gif) ![[Image: sN8N4xa.png]](https://i.imgur.com/sN8N4xa.png) ![[Image: aRCIyeu.png]](https://i.imgur.com/aRCIyeu.png)
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I have denied because without your lists your word count come in at 325 words. I typically don't include lists in my word count as it is an easy copy paste. If you want to pad out your text some more to the 500 word minimum and tag me I can reassess
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