Sweden’s preliminary WJC roster announced

Sweden's junior coach Roger Rönnberg today announced a preliminary roster for his defend that is to defend the gold from last season's World Juniors. Most notable is that Mika Zibanejad is not on the roster as he is not release by Ottawa Senators who rather wants him to play in the AHL. A decision that Rönnberg and the Swedish Association is not happy with and they will try to get the decision changed. Two other important players missing are defenders Jonas Brodin and Oscar Klefbom who are both injured.

The roster contains mainly of players playing in Elitserien, but Nick Sørensen who plays in the QMJHL was a surprise in the roster.

GOALIES
  1. Joel Lassinantti
30. Niklas Lundström
35. Oscar Dansk


DEFENDERS
 2. Emil Djuse
 3. Jesper Pettersson
 4. Christian Djoos
 5. Rasmus Bengtsson
 7. Tom Nilsson
 8. Linus Arnesson
 9. Mikael Vikstrand
12. Hampus Lindholm

 
FORWARDS
10. Alexander Wennberg
11. Jeremy Boyce Rotevall
13. Viktor Arvidsson
15. Sebastian Collberg
16. Filip Forsberg
17. William Karlsson
19. Elias Lindholm
21. Max Görtz
22. Linus Fröberg
23. Victor Rask
24. Rickard Rakell
25. Jacob de la Rose
26. Nick Sørensen
29. Emil Molin

 

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