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Timrå makes a strong season in SHL and looks to take a playoff spot.
One of the team’s most famous players ever, Henrik Zetterberg, now tells us what he has for relationship with the club today.
– Timrå is incredibly close to my heart, he tells the Sports Bible.
Henrik Zetterberg44, was only the twentieth hockey player in the world, the seventh from Sweden, to become a member of the so -called “triple gold club”. In 2008 he won the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings and since he had already won both the Olympics and the World Cup with Tre Kronor (2006) his name was entered into the history books.
Henrik Zetterberg about the relationship with Detroit
Many people know that he had an extremely successful time in Detroit. The Njurunda son moved to North America for the 2002/2003 season and scored 44 points in 79 matches during the debut year. He did a total of 18 seasons (he did not play anything during the last three years) for Detroit and was captain six of them.
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Are you involved in any way in the club today?
– Not so much at all, more than that I am very close to those who work there. Many who were down in Ängelholm now and met them there. We saw the Sweden-USA match (Sweden’s U18 national team won against the USA by 7-2 in early February) down there on Wednesday. There were five pieces from Detroit there. You stay involved but I do not need to write any reports, “Zäta” tells the Sports Bible.
So is “zäta’s” relationship with the favorite club Timrå
The second club that the 44-year-old is associated with is Timrå IK. In 1999/2000 he entered the A-team, which then played in the Hockey Allsvenskan. But already the following season he got to try playing in the elite series. There were a total of three seasons – plus the lockout 2004/2005 – in Timrå before moving to the USA. But even today he has a nice relationship with the club he loves.
– Timrå I also have very close contact with. Me and Kimmo The Cape (Sports Manager) has played together, he was a goalkeeper when I was there, then I have close contact with many of the players there. Timrå is incredibly close to my heart, he says.
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He follows the team as best it goes from home in Ängelholm, where he lives with his wife Emma Andersson And the 9-year-old son Love. He is impressed with how they have played in SHL this season.
– It is incredibly fun with the entrance of Olli Jokinen And so, he has stirred a bit in Swedish hockey. It’s fun. The guys enjoy, think it’s fun and play well. Now it’s the end push, he says.
Henrik Zetterberg is definitely one of the biggest Swedish players we have ever had. He has really made an impression in the NHL after his years in the Detroit Red Wings.
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