Eight players from Djurgården Hockey to represent Team Sweden

Djurgården Hockey goalie Adam Reideborn. (Photo by Marcus Vilson | Swe Press Photo)

On Monday, December 3, 2018, Team Sweden coach Richard Grönborg presented a 20-player strong group who will represent Team Sweden in the Channel One Cup Dec. 13 – 16 and notable to this, is that eight players are from Djurgården Hockey.

It didn’t come as a big surprise that Swedish Hockey League team Djurgården Hockey was represented by the most players in the national team. Djurgården have been playing well so far this  season and most of the players are in good shape. So well in fact, that the coach of Team Sweden, Richard Grönborg, picked eight players to represent Team Sweden.

These are:
Adam Reideborn (goalie)
Jesper Pettersson (defenseman)
Tom Nilsson (defenseman)
Jakob Lilja (forward)
Daniel Brodin (forward)
Marcus Davidsson (forward)
Jonathan Davidsson (forward)
Axel Jonsson Fjällby (forward)

The tournament will be played in Ice Arena and Park of Legends in Moscow, Russia. It will also be played in Hakametsä in Tammerfors, Finland, Dec. 13-16.

The rest of the roster:

Lars Johansson (goalie)
Klas Dahlbeck (defenseman)
Jesper Sellgren (defenseman)
Philip Holm (defenseman)
Lukas Bengtsson (defenseman)
Viktor Lööv (defenseman)
Joel Persson (defenseman)
Petter Emanuelsson (forward)
Joakim Nygård (forward)
Joel Kellman (forward)
Nick Sörensen (forward)
Michael Lindqvist (forward)
John Norman (forward)
Anton Wedin (forward)
Linus Johannson (forward)
Linus Fröberg (forward)
Jesper Boqvist (forward)