The 2022 IIHF World Juniors Championship will start on with a pretournament exhibition games on Dec. 20, and with preliminary camps underway, the first rosters are starting to trickle in. Sweden’s roster, coached by Tomas Monten, was announced on Wednesday morning.
Sweden features six first-round picks in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft, including the San Jose Sharks’ seventh-overall pick, William Eklund. This will be Eklund’s first World juniors tournament. Eklund was re-assigned to Djurgardens IF in the Swedish Hockey League after playing in the maximum nine NHL games before his entry-level contract would kick in.