Olle Alsing’s fine tribute to his grandfather Lasse Svensson

Olle Alsing remembers his dead grandfather Lasse.
The HV71 captain has done something special to honor his dear family member.
– He watched all my hockey games, regardless of age. That means a lot, he tells Jönköpings-Posten.

He changed SHL club before the season and left Leksand for HV71. There he was appointed team captain immediately. Olle Alsing28, is one of Småland’s most important players under the coach Anton Blomqvist.

Been around many clubs

Alsing began his career in Almtuna, but moved early to Leksand where he was for two seasons before there was SHL play with Djurgården. The Uppsala son has also represented the Grazz99ers in Austria, the Ottawa Senators in the NHL and Barys Nur-Sultan in the KHL. After a short stay again in Leksand it was now HV71. He has previously played 21 international matches for Tre Kronor.

– Since then I’ve moved around quite a bit, played in different countries and it’s been covid here and war there, one thing with the other that has meant that you’ve had to move. Now I’m here and I’m really happy to have signed three years with HV71, it feels very good, says Alsing in an interview with the local newspaper Jönköpings-Posten.

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Olle Alsing’s fine tribute

When you take a look at Olle Alsing, you quickly react to his many tattoos. He tells the newspaper that he did his first as an 18-year-old, then there have been quite a few more over the past ten years. Many of his motifs have been inspired by his family. His grandmother, grandfather, grandmother and grandfather are all with him in some way in his tattoos.

Among other things, he has a tribute to his grandfather Lasse Svensson. All of hockey Sweden thinks it’s touching and nice that the SHL professional chose to tattoo something that reminds him of his grandfather. It is a crumpled up bill that is on his right arm, almost at the wrist.

– It’s a crumpled up 20 note. I always got 20 kroner from my grandfather after every hockey game when I was little. He didn’t want to show everyone else that I got money, so he crumpled up the bill and I had it hidden in my hand after the game. “Good match, Olle,” he said. That tattoo is for him, he passed away recently, says Alsing.

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He says that he was close to Lasse and that he thinks that the grandfather is with him in some way. Not only in memory, but now also physically on the skin.

– Yes, exactly. He watched all my hockey games, regardless of age. That means a lot and then you are stupid enough to put it on your body, even though you remember it in your memory. But that’s probably something we young people are doing these days, we mess ourselves up, says Olle Alsing.

So very nice of you, Olle. Your grandpa Lasse would have been honored and happy if he heard about your tattoo that reminds you of him.

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