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Henrik Lundqvist is the best Swedish hockey goalkeeper of all time.
Now he points out the player who is most similar to him.
“I like his style of play,” he says at a press conference where the Sports Bible meets him.
After taking two SM golds with Frölunda in 2003 and 2005, and won several individual awards, drug Henrik Lundqvist43, to North America. The years in the New York Rangers became really successful for him and that was when he established himself as one of the world’s best goalkeepers.
Henrik Lundqvist stopped due to heart failure
Henrik Lundqvist played for Rangers between 2005 and 2020. During his 15 seasons he stood 887 matches. The Swede was always popular and popular with both the teammates, the fans and even the opponents, because he was such a gentleman on and off the ice.
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Unfortunately, Lundqvist was forced to end his career in 2021 due to a heart failure. He had just moved to the Washington Capitals, but never got to play for his new club. He was forced into several heart surgeries and then chose to quit hockey. Now it has been more than three years – but he is still affected by his heart failure.
– I don’t know exactly when I will be able to do a new operation. It is well around every 15 years that I will have to intervene and then there will be checks all the time. It has been three years now since the first operation, so it is clear that it will be closer, he told Sportbladet last fall.
Lundqvist played with Tre Kronor again
He is still suffering from recurring inflammation.
– I don’t think much about the operations, there are more recurring inflammation that I have to fight with. I have had problems with inflammation around my heart. This is something that I have had to handle the last three years, he says.
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The health problems mean that he has not been able to train and live just as he wanted. When he lined up in Tre Kronor Legend’s show match against NHL Alumni in Avicii Arena in early February, it was one of the few occasions that the public could see him on the ice again.
– I’m not in maximum form directly, you should not knit under the chair with. But at the same time, the requirements are extremely low on everyone who is here, he said during the press conference before the match, where the sports bible attended and talked to the legend.
“Henke” points out the NHL goalkeeper
When he met the overall press corps, he was asked which Swedish goalkeeper he thinks is most reminiscent of him right now. It is curled by Swedish goalkeepers in the NHL and Lundqvist has a good look at the players there because he works as an expert. Finally he came up with an answer.
– I have looked at some Jacob Markström Last year. He is probably a mix of me and with better technology than I had. He stands a little deeper into the goal I did. He is bigger and probably better technology than I have. I like his style of play, he says.
Jacob Markström, 35, is currently playing in the New Jersey Devils. He is originally from Gävle and has played for Brynäs in the elite series. He has also played for the NHL clubs Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames and taken the World Cup gold and World Cup bronze with Tre Kronor.
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