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Cheers to you, Joel Lundqvist!
You are one of the fittest to ever be in the Masters of Masters.
Now is the time to start proving it and stop playing around.
This is a comment. The opinions are the writer’s own.
We have reached episode seven of the acclaimed SVT program “Master of Masters” and now it is getting serious. The honeymoon in Catalonia is over, the polite phrases are finished and now it’s time to start delivering to reach the coveted finale.
Disappointed with Joel
This year’s season has offered many impressive efforts in the competitions and an extremely good atmosphere among the participants. But what has disappointed me the most so far is Joel Lundqvist and his half-ass attitude.
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It feels like the “Captain of Captains” is on vacation in Spain and just enjoying the view. Where’s the glow? Where is that intense look that we remember from the ice? Where is your goddamn anamma!?
Lundqvist may have turned 42 years old, but he ended his elite career as a hockey player at the highest Swedish level in April 2023. That is, just four months before the filming of Mästarnas mäster started in September, making him one of the fittest participants in the program’s history.
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Lundqvist’s advantage
Which is really noticeable when he takes off his upper body and flexes his muscles, something we got to see twice in tonight’s episode. But if we compare with Anja Pärson and Jimmy Samuelssonwho ended their elite careers over 10 years ago, Joel has an incredible physical advantage.
Still, it’s so incredibly strange that he’s now ready for his second straight night duel. Sure, he’s had some bad luck with wooden posts to the skull and dropped flags, but come on, one of the SHL’s all-time best players should be slaughtering this opposition through sheer strength and willpower.
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Then he actually has himself to blame when he doesn’t seem to take the competitive moments seriously and is more enjoying the surroundings in beautiful Catalonia and the good company. In a qualifier against Anja Pärson and Johanna Davidsson he therefore chooses dominoes and is defeated again.
Watch “Sebbe”
Just make it easy for yourself and take the stomach killer to excel completely, Lundqvist is known for having won all the pre-season tests in Frölunda and such a challenge would have been child’s play. But now he risks going out next week and it’s time to get tougher.
Just look at the roommate Sebastian Larsson who has won three straight episodes and knows exactly what it’s all about. It’s time to stop playing around and start performing properly, Joel.
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