Team Sweden line combinations announced

[Kwame_Kilpatrick 0]

bengt is too Swedish he will need to understand NHL style tactics to win, the Russians know this but sadly bengt will be Tommy salo for the swedes this year. the only hope is weinhandl is truly a legend, maybe bag is rating the khl very highly

[Datsyuk2Zetterberg 1]

sick top 3 lines. Weinhandl on the line creates soooo many other solid lines. I like Hornqvist on L2 with Z and Forsberg, my only beef is that Franzen should play with Backstrom instead of Eriksson.

[Zetts 236]

Wow, this is actually the only roster I've seen where I really don't like the lines.

I mean, I love Sweden's roster itself, and they've got crazy skill. Somehow they managed to screw up the lines though imo.

[Wings_Dynasty 267]

Never thought I would think this but Sweden's defense is a little weak.

[Guest Lidstromboli]

what's weak about their defense?

potential weak spot is Oduya. never seen Johansson play

Edited February 17, 2010 by Lidstromboli

[Pavel Hossyukstrom 2]

eeeeeeeeeeeeewww!! Zetterberg is playing with Floppa?? Insulting

[titanium2 867]

I thought Gretzky was Zetterberg's favorite player, not Forsberg. I mean, Z had comparisons to Forsberg when he first came over but he wasn't his favorite player.

[up2here 41]

Enstrom on the first pairing? That guy is as soft as a marshmallow! With the forechecking I saw from Canada and the U.S. he wont last a period against them.

[SweWings 45]

Enstrom on the first pairing? That guy is as soft as a marshmallow! With the forechecking I saw from Canada and the U.S. he wont last a period against them.

Which is why he's paired with Öhlund. Not really crazy about those two as the top pairing but most likely BÅG will try to roll 3 offensive lines. Depending on how fit and ready Forsberg and Franzén are I'm guessing they'll switch some of the placements around.

[Zoidberg#40 8]

Forsberg and Zetterberg together? But what if their beards get tangled up with eachother??

[up2here 41]

Which is why he's paired with Öhlund. Not really crazy about those two as the top pairing but most likely BÅG will try to roll 3 offensive lines. Depending on how fit and ready Forsberg and Franzén are I'm guessing they'll switch some of the placements around.

I hope BAG knows what hes doing because Im cheering for Sweden to medal. I think Enstrom would be much better served on the second or third pairing normally and maybe on the Second PP unit. He may be soft but he sure can pass.

[dat's sick 1,002]

never seen Johansson play

Think Rafalski. But softer.

Wow, this is actually the only roster I've seen where I really don't like the lines.

I was actually pleasantly surprised.. we'll see how it works out but I have a good feeling about these lines.

[Guest mindfly]

Sweden will also start with 4 five man units and will rest none, everyone will play and there will be no special pp/pk units they will just roll around the first games to see which ones got chemistry and plays better.. etc... typical swedish thinking here.

[Sergei Red Wing 0]

22) Daniel Sedin– 20) Henrik Sedin – 80) Mattias Weinhandl

2) Mattias Öhlund – 39) Tobias Enström

21) Peter Forsberg – 40) Henrik Zetterberg – 27) Patrik Hörnqvist

5) Nicklas Lidström – 55) Nicklas Kronwall

91) Loui Eriksson – 19) Nicklas Bäckström – 11) Daniel Alfredsson

10) Henrik Tallinder – 6) Magnus Johansson

93) Johan Franzén – 26) Samuel Påhlsson – 33) Fredrik Modin

3) Douglas Murray – 29) Johnny Oduya

Goalies:

30) Henrik Lundqvist 1) Stefan Liv 50) Jonas Gustavsson

That is a defending Gold Medalist roster right there.

I don't get it - both Nicklas'es a second D pairing?

[Guest mindfly]

It's not the NHL you need to understand, the 1st pair dont necessarily get most minutes of icetime etc... if you're on the third or first line dont matter either.

[dat's sick 1,002]

Sweden will also start with 4 five man units and will rest none, everyone will play and there will be no special pp/pk units they will just roll around the first games to see which ones got chemistry and plays better.. etc... typical swedish thinking here.

To be honest that's almost more typical Russian thinking. They're the ones who started with the 5-man units and they're doing the same thing in this Olympics.

It doesn't have to be a bad thing, looking at those lines all of them except the 4th line look like really good PP lines. Forsberg-Zetterberg-Hornqvist-Lidstrom-Kronwall? How would you change that to make it better for the PP?

[Guest mindfly]

Well I still think the first three lines should get more ice time than the fourth (move up franzen switch with eriksson)

and then play more oduya&murray against tougher teams and play them less against germany etc...

[GMRwings1983 8,803]

Why isn't Franzen playing with the Sedin twinks?

He's better than Weinhandl. That doesn't look like a very scary first line to me.

[Guest mindfly]

Why isn't Franzen playing with the Sedin twinks?

He's better than Weinhandl. That doesn't look like a very scary first line to me.

Get the team more even I assume...

[Heroes of Hockeytown 694]

Get the team more even I assume...

Maybe a better question is, what's he doing on the bottom line with the weakest offensive players on the team, instead of, say, with his linemate in Detroit?

[Drake_Marcus 890]

"Bengt-blahblahblah" to you too buddy!

I lol'd.

[dat's sick 1,002]

Maybe a better question is, what's he doing on the bottom line with the weakest offensive players on the team, instead of, say, with his linemate in Detroit?

To fool other teams into thinking "oh here comes the s***ty 4th line.." and then Mule scores a hat-trick before they realize what happened.

[Datsyuk2Zetterberg 1]

Forsberg and Zetterberg together? But what if their beards get tangled up with eachother??

crossing beards?

[blikst 1]

Why not let the team play before you announce to the world that X player gets too little or much ice time and such things?

[NGKEIB 32]

I think that the Mule is on the fourth line because Gustafsson is for the moment watching his ice time (it seemed apparent in the game against Germany). I'm sure that he'll get more ice time as the tournament progresses.

Murray was fun to watch as usual, Germans were bouncing off of him as they tried to hit him.

Magnus Johansson played as expected - soft, unable to handle the German players in his own zone etc (but decent offensively). I have no idea why Gustafsson chose him - if he wanted a SEL defenseman, he should at least have taken a bigger one. He won't be able to handle any of Canada or USA's players...