With the outdoor game secured, the next big project for Tom Anselmi is to organise an international game. Sweden appears to be the venue, and rightly so. Captain fantastic Erik Karlsson hails from Landsboro, Sweden and began his career with Frolunda HC.
Double vision perhaps? You’ve seen this before? Of course you have, when the Sens took Daniel Alfredsson home to Gothenburg for the second year of the NHL premiere in 2008. Alfredsson got to play against his hometown (and old) team and an NHL fixture against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The time has come once more to bring another Swedish hero home.