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by Paul on 09/25/09 at 06:48 AM ET
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from Chris McCosky of the Detroit News,
Tomas Holmstrom couldn’t watch NHL hockey games on TV when he was a kid growing up in Pieta, Sweden. The only hockey games shown in those days were Swedish National team games.
“Yeah,” said a chuckling Henrik Zetterberg, who grew up in Sundsvall, “but when Homer was growing up it was the ‘60s. I was able to watch NHL games on television.”
But Zetterberg, who is seven years younger than Holmstrom, admitted that only one or two NHL games were shown a week and they were on at 2 a.m.
“If it was a school day, you had no chance of staying up,” he said.
Jonathan Ericsson, from Norrkoping and four years younger than Zetterberg, made it a point to stay up late, even on school nights, if the televised game involved the Red Wings.
“I always wanted to see Nicklas play,” he said, referring to his locker room neighbor Nicklas Lidstrom. “Detroit wasn’t always playing, but whenever they were I made sure I was up in the middle of the night.”
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