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All-Time Top Swedes
by Paul on 10/04/09 at 08:21 AM ET
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from Stephen Ripley of Sun Media,
There’s Hakan Loob, whose brief tenure with the Calgary Flames included a 50-goal season; budding superstar Henrik Zetterberg, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy in Detroit’s 2008 Stanley Cup run; gritty winger Tomas Sandstrom, who scored 857 points in 15 NHL seasons; and Flyers goalie Pelle Lindbergh, who won the 1985 Vezina Trophy before dying in a car crash that same year.
And those are the guys who didn’t make the list.
10. Anders Hedberg
Like the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the now-demolished Winnipeg Arena was the spot where Swedish players first gained a foothold in their invasion of North American hockey. Together with countryman Ulf Nilsson, Anders Hedberg was one of the first players to storm the beach in 1974, scoring 100 points in his rookie season with the World Hockey Association’s Winnipeg Jets.
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