Jacob Moverare arrived at Frölunda in at the end of September, having spent some time with the club during summer for some extra training. Rather than try to fit in onto the Ontario Reign’s crowded blue line or spend time in the ECHL, he had asked the Los Angeles Kings for permission to play the season in his native Sweden.
Frölunda prides themselves on ‘being the closest European team to the NHL’, with many NHL players having gone through their ranks, and a few of them having gone directly from the SHL to the NHL (Mattias Janmark, Artturi Lehkonen and Rasmus Dahlin are leading examples in recent years).