The tousled blonde locks. The boyish face. The pale whiskers around his upper lip and chin that serve as a sorry excuse for a playoff beard. They don’t come close to telling the tale of Hampus Lindholm.
Despite his athletic 6-foot-2 frame, if you saw him walking around, say, the Irvine Spectrum near the home he shares with a teammate, he’d fit right in with the rest of the 20-somethings. You’d hardly peg him as one of the best young hockey defensemen in the world and a vital part of the Anaheim Ducks in their run for another Stanley Cup.