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Here comes a recruitment coup that will make everyone raise their eyebrows.
Leksand takes two star defenders from the SHL rival.
– I have no comments on that, says Leksand’s sports manager Thomas Johansson to Expressen.
Leksand is in seventh place in the SHL table after 42 rounds played. With only two points up to the important sixth place and one match less played, the direct place to the quarter-finals is very much alive.
Leksand’s coup
Six in the table is precisely Timrå, and now a brazen recruitment coup between the teams has exploded. Because Leksand has agreed with not just one but two star defenders from Timrå’s team, Expressen reports today.
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It is about the Finnish top slopes Joonas Lyytinen and Axel Rindell, who will move to Dalarna for the next SHL season. Leksand currently has only five backs with contracts for the coming season and is now securing a welcome addition.
Changing SHL teams
During this year’s season, Rindell has delivered 20 points and averaged over 20 minutes of ice time per game for Timrå IK. While back colleague Lyytinen has also impressed but had large parts of the year ruined due to injury.
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Both Finns came to Timrå last season and quickly became key players in the backup set. But now the careers continue at Leksand, according to the evening newspaper’s information.
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Even if the track manager Thomas Johansson do not want to confirm the double enrollment.
– No, I don’t want to comment on that, he tells the newspaper.
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