Z: I want to spend my career in Detroit

[Dixi 0]

This is my first post here at this redwings forum.

Henrik Zetterberg grew up in a typical Swedish middleclass home in Njurunda, a suburb to Sundsvall. Sundsvall has a population of 100 000 people. He has played in Timrå before going to Detriot. And he would not play for another elite team in Sweden. Thats the guy he is.

Hes girlfriend got famous in the Swedish version of Survivour. Without her silicon boobs she would not have gotten where she is now, in bed with Z. However she is not a stupid girl.

Most icehockey players in Sweden comes from a middleclass homes because icehockey is a expensive sport to have your kids playing. In Sweden it is bad to brag abut how much money you are earning.

If you compare this with a Russian guy who allmost everyone has grewn up in a poor home. If you are rich in Russia you have connections to high people in the goverment or the mafia. I beleve they are the same sometimes. When a young Russin guy comes to NHL and earn alot of money you want to earn so much money as you can.

The past is what you are!

[naranja 1]

Sorry to dig out this thread. But I found a translated version of the Expressen article in the Freep, and thought some are perhaps interested.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...651/1053/SPORTS

Zetterberg: I'd stay with Red Wings for entire career

July 15, 2007

About the only things that get Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg down are rainy days and paparazzi.

In an interview this month with Expressen, a newspaper in his native Sweden, a reporter and photographer caught up with Zetterberg, who spends the off-season at his home in Alnön, Sundsvall.

Zetterberg is a popular figure in Sweden, where he is considered to be the heir to Peter Forsberg. But it isn't just Zetterberg's hockey skills that fascinate, it's also who he's dating (Swedish TV personality Emma Andersson) and his disheveled looks (he's described in the story as a guy who "looks like he has stepped out of a beer commercial").

It turns out Zetterberg, known in Sweden as Zäta, wields quite a bit of star power in his hometown. The article tells of how Zetterberg and Andersson walked into a restaurant and immediately were seated at a coveted outdoor table (the reporter, there separately, had been told no such tables were available). On top of that, they were served their food before patrons who had been there longer.

Zetterberg deftly deflected several questions about his girlfriend of nearly a year, and he flat-out refused to let the photographer take pictures of him and Andersson. Zetterberg did reveal that Andersson will be moving in with him when he returns to his suburban Detroit home in the fall, prompting the reporter to ask whether there are any mini-Zs on the way.

The answer: no future draft picks coming just yet. But if they do arrive, he says, they'll likely be born in the States.

"As long as Detroit is willing," he says, "I'll sign for the rest of my career."

That's hardly going to be a problem: The Wings see Zetterberg as the next captain after Nicklas Lidstrom, and they'll work on signing him to an extension next summer, the earliest time permitted under the collective bargaining agreement.

However, Zetterberg, 26, explained that "I'm not thinking of becoming the new Chris Chelios," referring to his Wings teammate who will turn 46 during the upcoming season. Zetterberg estimates he'll play until he's 35 and again said "preferably in Detroit."

As for the two injuries that nagged him last season, Zetterberg said the pain that hampered his left wrist for years is gone and that his back (spasms sidelined him the last 19 games of the regular season) "feels much, much better."

Finally, Zetterberg revealed his likes and dislikes.

On what he misses while in Detroit: "Sibylla," a beloved chain of hot dog/hamburger stands in Sweden.

On what he loves: "The freedom of the sea on a summer day."

On what he hates: "Rainy summer days."