Why the Canucks Are Addicted to Sweden

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[@HecticHockey]

Guys I’m not too familiar with Swedish meatballs obviously. Apologies to any Swedes I offended.

[@lenaforsgren]

I’m Swedish and for some reason watching this video makes me proud 🥰🇸🇪 Detroit fan with Vancouver as a runner up.

[@CashMacGregor]

should be pulling for the runner up, bro.

[@Statsy10]

Detroit having also done well with Sweden.

[@lenaforsgren]

@@Statsy10 Indeed 😎

[@lenaforsgren]

@@CashMacGregor I don’t choose my favorite team, it just “is” 😅 I like many teams, too many probably. 😁

[@vizzez]

Proud until you remember you got a muslim invasion going on? 😊

[@omfg322]

|I cant wait for the day both pettersons to be on the same team and the announcers get confused

[@Statsy10]

They'll figure it out. Don't forget, we had two guys named Greg Adams at the same time! 😊

[@baiqi44]

@@Statsy10 Yeah, they call one Greg C Adams and the other one Greg Adams. I'm not sure if the C was a middle name or it stood for Center. They're already calling one of the EP's, D Pettersson as the D is short for d-man.

[@Statsy10]

@@baiqi44 Yes, it was his middle initial. The other Greg also went by Gus, which was his dad's name.

[@ethanparker7900]

speaking of petterson, i kinda wish that the sedins had played just 1 more season than they did so they could've been with petterson's rookie year the 2018-2019 year. Imagine those 2 playing with him and if they had stuck around for just 1 more year and wait until after the 2018-2019 season they would've been able to do so and still would've been inducted into the hall first ballot in 2022

[@jmstransit]

Bring back lane pedersen

[@alanmoore4952]

Important to highlight Thomas Gradin's huge role in all this! He returned to the Canucks as a scout in 1994 and has been their top European scout since 1998. He's had a big hand in every Canucks draft selection out of Sweden since Ohlund - he's the one who convinced Burke to move mountains to draft both Sedins in 1999, and convinced Benning to pick Pettersson over Cody Glass in 2017, etc.. Seems like he's quietly started stepping back from scouting in recent years and just retired this offseason, so especially timely to acknowledge the massive legacy he leaves within the organization as a builder in addition to his accomplishments for the team on the ice. Also worth adding that the Sedins rejoined the Canucks hockey ops as advisors in 2021 and have taken on increasing responsibilities to support the coaching staff and player development program for the team. And Nils Aman was another Swede on the roster for the majority of last season, playing in 43 games plus 5 more in the playoffs.

[@uncleweed]

I came here to say all of the above… Thomas Gradin has done incredible work behind the scenes and having the scenes (and was hugely underrated really as a player as he was a slight built guy playing in a rough and tumble conference and era, and would've thrived in the modern game. Having the being active with the coaching staff should continue to improve the skill of so many players, especially as the Canucks are choosing deeper in the draft and have to make every pick count (yes, I'm super aware of the dodgy draft history in years past)

[@SalSagev-n3s]

Glad you pointed out all the eerie numbers from the Sedin twins last game. That was crazy. Great overall vid once again.

[@jnsl1982]

Fun fact: Markus Näslund and the Sedins (as well as Peter Forsberg, Victor Hedman and plenty others) all come from the same small town in northern Sweden. With only around 80000 in the entire municipality of Örnsköldsvik, having produced 20 NHL-players over the years is kinda impressive.

[@cia5649]

it being constantly cold and one of the few sports actually viable might have something to do with that

[@glenw-xm5zf]

Forsberg was a beast. A Swedish mark messier and hedman makes a case for Swedes being able to play this game, but the best stomping fgounds a found between Vancouver and halifax

[@hampusjohansson8987]

​@@cia5649 its not constantly cold, we have summer aswell you know

[@GALENGODIS]

@@cia5649 Nah, that is not true. It's quite warm in Sweden, ice on the lakes are just for a couple of months in the winter...

[@cia5649]

@@GALENGODIS i live in sweden maybe in stockholm is like that but Örnsköldsvik? nah almost no sunlight in the winter

[@boxvango9021]

Swedish players are among the world's elite talents. Period. No more need be said. Loving our Swedish connection!

[@hjallebyss2603]

As a swede with roots from Övik (home town of Nazzy and the twins) Imma Nuck for life!

[@alexyu1236]

As you a Swede what's your thoughts on leafs swedish culture? Salming, sundin, hammerstrom, and current swedes like jarnkrok, lilegren, nylander.

[@hjallebyss2603]

@@alexyu1236 I follow two teams in the NHL, Canucks and the Leafs! If the leafs plays any one i cheer for the Leafs (exept when thay play the Nucks.) So i like the Leafs alot.

[@TheBEARofHIGHWAY1]

You missed the Canucks having Mats Sundin....

[@uranusismightybig5111]

We are all still living in denial about having seen Sundin in a Canucks jersey 😂

[@adammckenzie6074]

Torontos longest standing captain too. A beauty

[@TheBEARofHIGHWAY1]

@@adammckenzie6074 he almost was signed for a 2 year ridiculous contract which would have gone down as the Canucks worst signing even beyond Messier.

[@vincemorgan6730]

haha

[@glenw-xm5zf]

The ten million dollar 36 year old

[@Statsy10]

That Naslund/Stojanov trade was wild! Nazzy had 52 points in 66 games when he was traded for Stojanov, who had one point in 58 games. I feel like the trade must have also included an envelope of compromising pictures of someone. 😂

[@aXXis-YT]

The thing North americans doesn't seem to understand is the fact that sweden is a very small country. We are about 10 million people living here. The country is the size of Florida. We have the 3rd most players in the NHL after Canada and the USA. That is remarkable, according to me.

[@HecticHockey]

Incredible. As a Ranger fan I love Sweden.

[@juLLLe82]

It's actually roughly 2.5 times the size of Florida, but with half the population.

[@hanszickerman8051]

It's a bit larger than California.

[@ThEMarD]

I miss the Sedin Twins era... 2010-2011 Canucks were definitely a powerhouse and it's very unfortunate that Boston got the win over them... Still, the current age Canucks are impressive too. That 2023-2024 Round 2 versus the Oilers was easily my favorite part of the playoffs and that game 7 conclusion was epic! I'm an Oilers fan too, but i have nothing but major respect for the Canucks and I do hope one day they can win their first cup with the help of fhe Swedes 👍

[@johncastro2148]

And they have so much more upcoming players like petey 2, Tom Wallander, and lekkermaki, and much more. So excited for upcoming seasons go canucks go

[@rainbob7]

that serendipity that happened during the Sedins' last game was insane! I had no idea!

[@TheBoyer19]

Detroit is also obsessed with Swedes

[@WarioSaysSo]

Thomas Gradin, Patrik Sundstrom, Mattias Ohlund, Markus Naslund, Daniel & Henrik Sedin twin brothers, Johan Hedberg, Alexander Edler, Elias Petterson etc. Like it or not but the Canucks have really found tallents others either overlooked or underestimated to go for - And that Swedish track record proves solid. Only for some reason, Anders Eldebrink never panned out in the NHL despite on International and European level was a elite level defender (!). It is near legendary how the Canucks earned Markus Naslund for "nothing" in trade and trading drafts to aquire BOTH the Swedish teenage wonders Sedins (in what was beside 5 players in total a very weak draft year). My favourites was Markus Naslund 19# and Mattias Ohlund 2#. Naslund was a elite scorer while Ohlund a rough hard working defenseman with a very humble and friendly persona.

[@WarioSaysSo]

@@lennartforsberg1519 Yeah he proved he could be a big scorer when all was alined.

[@nathanadrian7797]

A bucket full of Swedes and no Stanley Cup! Maybe, just maybe there is a lesson to be learned here.

[@glenw-xm5zf]

Gradin was a complete player with a good work ethic. Sunndtrom floated like a CORK. Ohlund was a beast, much like Zadorov, and he would fight.

[@glenw-xm5zf]

@@lennartforsberg1519 Well, from row 31, he floated like a cork.

[@nocturne7371]

Swede here, in in spring of 1997, I just happened to be visiting Vancouver. I begged my friend that I was visiting to ask his sister, that had season tickets, to give them to us so that I could see Marcus Näslund play. She did and I was so happy. Even if that game was mostly him taking a beating, I had a feeling he was going places.

[@johanf9279]

You are wrong about hockey program in Europe not developed in the past. There were tons of good players already in 40s and forward. The NHL did not discover europeans from beginning, were not open for the style they provided. Then many turned down NHL because the salary was not higher than good paid jobs in Europe (Sweden, Finland).

[@MSmith-cp1tz]

The Canucks have had a ton of success drafting Swedes. And trading for them too.

[@nathanadrian7797]

And going nowhere!

[@MSmith-cp1tz]

@@nathanadrian7797 no Canadian team has won the Cup since 1993. I think were all in the same boat.

[@nathanadrian7797]

@@MSmith-cp1tz The Canucks are my second favourite team right now, but amongst Canadian teams, they are tied with the Leafs for longest drought! I don't think the Swede connection is helping much, the Sedins disappeared in the playoffs every year and Pettersen did the same last spring.

[@glenw-xm5zf]

We have no success until we win a cup.

[@TheBEARofHIGHWAY1]

Sedins were amazing players but I remember when they were drafted and all I could think is "Yeah they're kinda funny looking" (the line from Fargo).

[@boxvango9021]

Great movie reference! Hahaha

[@PrincessErica84]

fuck yeah we are! Swedish players have almost never failed us.

[@ClownTown15000]

The Canucks have never won a Stanley Cup. The Swedish players have ALWAYS failed us.

[@ryanbencze]

I love my sweeds but I’d still much rather have a good old fashioned Canadian kid on our team. The power forward type where they can skate hit score pass fight, think Iginla. My favourite type of players, old time hockey.

[@genoric4094]

@@ClownTown15000Imagine how bad you’d be without them lol

[@nathanadrian7797]

Your goal is to never succeed? Well, your team is doing a bang up job!

[@glenw-xm5zf]

That's why we have won so many Cups with them. Against Boston; the twins did nOT deliver. k? yes they were good but All I can remember is henrik being slapped repeatedly by Brat marchand. None of the Canucks did a damned thing. At that point, I began to H*Te this team.. and henrik was 3 sizes bigger than machand. We should have grabbed Matty T chuk cuz he is the kind of guy you win with.

[@nodefense]

Been binging tf out of your videos lately haha, love your channel from Aus 🇦🇺

[@mattblom3990]

In my opinion, I think the core reason there was a stereotype against Swedish players many decades ago was lack of communication and understanding on the North American game vs. The European/International game. No internet, no websites to research this stuff. Swedish players in the NHL now are prepped since they show promise in their early teens for the NHL game and many come over for Major Junior, if they can. Even if not, from an academic level they get it. Tom Wollander if you've seen his interviews is 100% prepared for the NHL.

[@shanebarnes6783]

Europeans were thought to be not tough enough to play in North America. This changes first with Salming with Toronto then the influx of Swedish players playing for the Winnipeg Jets in the mid 70’s. This opened the door for other Swedish and European players

[@Bjösk]

as a swedish person this video was really interesting, i'm also very impressed with how good you could say all the swedish players name. keep up the good work

[@imulippo5245]

I wish Finland would have as much skilled, offensive defenseman's as Sweden has. Only got Heiskanen right now.

[@kobaltseven]

Finland makes up for it with so many great forwards tho.

[@filipnassen9076]

Finland’s got great players. Argubly more offensive threats than Sweden who has more roleplayers.

[@boxvango9021]

But Fins are much better drivers

[@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556]

I wish there was more Top4/6 NHL Caliber Finnish Defenseman i dont even care if their Offensive or Defensive minded, theres just a huge lack of talented D-men in Finland. Heiskanen and Lindell are only good D-men Finland have after that it drops of massively.

[@filipnassen9076]

@@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556 I do agree that Sweden has Finland beat on the defence. Though 10 years ago it looked even better.

[@BurghFinsFan]

Going to like this video before I even watch it just for the awesome title. 🇸🇪

[@Steinbock23]

This video was great. I'd love to see one about the Stars and Fins

[@GLrebirth]

Looks like Nils Aman from Avesta, Sweden will make the roster again

[@StarlightNightflame]

You forgot to mention the Sedins are now working for the team under Allvin, giving the Canucks two more Swedes in the front office :) Good video, will have to check out your channel!

[@lazer6832]

W vid Keep posting i am addicted

[@mitchellskene8176]

7:11 is a bit misleading. Naslund didn't retire. Vancouver chose not to re-sign him, so he left. He retired the next year.

[@chickenalaking1319]

I was bummed he didn't sign in Pittsburgh, would've been great to see him return and contribute to the 09' cup victory.

[@mitchellskene8176]

@@chickenalaking1319 Given he tallied almost 50 points in New York, he would have been a valuable asset that season!!! He could have been the difference maker in hindsight.

[@chickenalaking1319]

@@mitchellskene8176 totally agee, he would've been more effective than Sykora, Fedotenko or Satan.

[@NOMORET1ME]

He chose to retire in his home town team Modo

[@mitchellskene8176]

@@NOMORET1ME From Pro hockey yes, but he retired from the NHL the year prior, after his stint with The Rangers.

[@dorkflassbury1164]

What a shame that the Sedins were unable to crown their careers with a Stanley Cup. Exceptional players.

[@hellmalm]

Happy we’re representing! 🇸🇪

[@FlightdeckJohnny]

A very good and interesting video! Greetings from Sweden

[@CashMacGregor]

vikings make great hockey players. gradin, sundstom, ohlund, naslund, edler, sedins, pettersson. lindholm for a cup of coffee. future looks bright with lekerrimacki, willander and pettersson.

Hoglander!

[@Gammaskalle]

Teal´c “I believe the Canucks of Vancouver are the superior warriors.” From Stargate :D

[@sparrelainen]

The head of the european scouts were swedish and former NHL player Inge Hammarstrom at the time when they drafted Pettersson right? I dont know how many years Inge was scout for Canucks, 5 or 6 years?

[@benktlofgren4710]

No matter all these Swedes, Anders Eldebrink is still my fav player!

[@AD_RC]

Fun fact about Nils Höglander, his number is always roughly the population of the town he's from (21).

[@JohnSmith-cy9tt]

Plenty new Swedish players that will fitt canucks 2025 - SHL got like 12 of them now. defence is what we need now in Canucks

[@user-ys7eh9kx9p]

im a ducks fan first , but only becuse canucks love the swedes i allways cheer for them to.

[@Firebeastplaysgames]

10:54 did Is it just me and did I hear him say calglary. edit thx for a Canucks video before people say I have a blue jackets player for my pfp it’s for Johnny 13 Hockey

[@gavin7772]

Van loves swedes who make up a majority of their cap and disappear in t he playoffs

[@glenw-xm5zf]

Gavin, you might like my posts here. All in the last 30 minutes. One thing I will say for Swedes, they don't give you a lot of grief. but I like the Richie Sutters of this game. My fav' Canuck of all time: STEAMERRRR!! Heart and grit are very under rated today and 'Talent' is over rated. Also, do our Swedes ever get through the playoffs without injuries?? Edler, EP40, et cetera

[@MatzeMB85]

That's a lot of prime quality Swedes, only Detroit beat the Canucks when it comes to blue and yellow. No wonder they are among most popular NHL teams in Sweden with Avs, Rangers and the Leafs giving chase.

[@BloodRider1914]

Maybe we can have a team like the Kraken become addicted to Norwegians next

[@dumbestoyster]

Calgary has been known as the Swedish Mafia, for the last 5yrs

[@hangemhigh7069]

Thanks you celebrate our player! You can enjoy them and we have only memory of them.😢 NHL without Swedes should be boring. We are happy if we can enjoy some of them who not go to playoffs in VM! Like Mats Sundin who play in a shit team Toronto in his career!😊

[@hjallebyss2603]

And fun fact: Edler also played on MoDo as well as Gradin played in MoDo and was from Övik.

[@hangemhigh7069]

@@hjallebyss2603 AND PETER FORSBERG AND VICTOR HEDMAN! FROM A LITTLE VILLAGE IN THE NORTH OF SWEDEN! I'M NOT SURE ABOUT NIKLAS LIDSTRÖM?

[@hjallebyss2603]

@@hangemhigh7069 Ofc! And Ullmark and Anton Forsberg, and Niklas Sundström and Victor Goalofsson!

[@hjallebyss2603]

@@hangemhigh7069 was Thinking about Canuck players 😎

[@hangemhigh7069]

@hjallebyss2603 Aha I thought you mean MoDo!

[@hjallebyss2603]

@@hangemhigh7069 yeah MoDo players that also played in Vancouver 👍

[@nathanadrian7797]

Maybe this is why they have never won The Stanley Cup. I remember the Sedins disappearing in the playoffs every year, and come to think of it, didn't Pettersen disappear in last years playoffs?

[@glenw-xm5zf]

Agree 100% Give me a Gilmour and a Sutter, and of course a Vaive, and we get er done

[@viijager4299]

Blues get hella players from Sweden too!

[@Hattifnattens]

Lekkerimäki is really something. Watch out NHL

[@mbergstrommedia]

We are all Swenucks :)

[@edwinsparda7622]

Nils Big Hog Höglander.

[@EZ-Videos]

Did you just add a picture of meatballs in gravy on tagliatelle?

[@Idofz]

0:04 wth is that? Do not use that picture ever again to refer to Swedish meatballs. It should be with mashed potatoes, Brunsås and Lingonberries

[@RoyalMela]

1:30 I am sure there has never been an Italian, British or Irish player in NHL. Only one Dutch too, and he did not play in NHL until few years ago. They are players who have born there but are citizens of Canada or USA.

[@HecticHockey]

I was going off of the quant hockey website

[@donjohnson7768]

It's pronounced Stoya-nov lol

[@Statsy10]

I was also going to point that out, but then again he's really just a footnote in hockey at this point, and only if you live in Vancouver or Pittsburgh. Interesting to note that Stojanov was actually taken eight places higher than Naslund in the same draft.

[@wmcduff]

"On offence they had players like Mark Messier-" Boo! Hiss!

[@Mabbah066]

Maybe they should be more addicted to winning a freaking Stanley Cup???

[@the6ig6adwolf]

Sweds are fine as supporting pieces of a team but not as key contributors or in leadership roles. They are too soft for playoff hockey and do not grow up dreaming about winning the Stanley Cup like N. American born players do.

[@AdamEHuss]

And where do most of these players come from? Örnsköldsvik 💪

[@vincemorgan6730]

I am Canadian but love the Bruins so I don't know about the B's going out and getting a swede and a russian I can hope I guess

[@glenw-xm5zf]

They had the brains to grab Zadorov. he shows up BIG TIME in the post season, too. but hey, he and a Swedeheart. Am in on a rant yet? No? just wait Til the puck drops

[@macjonte]

Is there another team that focused on Finland? 😄

[@rollnryan27]

@ 10:52 🤔 Markstrom left to play in CalGareLEE .... 🤷🏻 uuhhmmm, WHAT !!!? 🤦🏻

[@Overseer190]

Now make a video covering the Florida Panthers and their Finnish roots

[@alexyu1236]

Leafs are more know for the leafs since salming go leafs go

[@MillaQ9999]

Swedish players have helped them to choke for decades. Why fix something that already works. Canucks clearly don't want to win a cup. 😭😭😭👍👍

[@MatzeMB85]

You're acting like canadian teams can win the cup. That has not been the case for decades. Most if not all cup winners during the same period has had Swedes playing for them however. But blame the europeans, it will solve the problem for sure. 😂

Alex sto-YON-ov.

[@vincemorgan6730]

that's why they have 0 cups

[@glenw-xm5zf]

You read my post and copy pasted??? Good to see some guys are still able to think things through.

[@MrDozedoff]

They enjoy falling short of a cup?

[@JarodJoseph]

Cause Swede draft picks adjust well because of the similar shitty, gloomy weather.

[@glenw-xm5zf]

When Vegas won that cup. how many Euros did they have on that team/ i ask cuz i am not sure

[@HecticHockey]

7 Europeans, the rest were mainly Canadian with a few Americans.

[@SoggySyrup8713]

🇸🇪

[@PenguinNote67]

Just wait. The Blues will Swedish soon as well

[@gabriellyberg7252]

Metaballs with PASTA??? Consider this swede severely triggered

[@georgehe1473]

make a video on dallas being addicted to finland

[@BrandonHilikus]

and you have old canadian doods in the stands askign where the canadian players are lol

[@metuberob]

totally not related to how team sweden beat team canada for a gold medal or some kind of championship final ... no ... couldn't be when you can't beat them you join them ..

[@petter5721]

Markus Nazgûl 😀👍🏻

[@torgrim123]

3 Italians? lol wow

[@AD_RC]

Because nobody else is lmao

[@L1MERS]

I'm from sweden and Lekkerimäkki is really good, he hit a lacrosse on my teams rival so i'm happy

[@glenw-xm5zf]

he is good only if he shows up in the post seasojn

[@czechD]

Öman and Karlsson?

[@caz_shen]

you should do a video on why dallas has so many finns

[@glenw-xm5zf]

and San Jose has so many Sharks

[@caz_shen]

a likely place for them to be

[@rtzeexy374]

dont vancouver have more swedish players maybe they are on the ahl team or not staying with them isnt Nils Åman on the team, Linus Karlsson?

[@HecticHockey]

Yes!

[@jeffwenberg4321]

And yet still no cup!

[@AnitudeX]

Tim Willander.

[@nickmorgan8701]

“Tom” Willander, not “Tim”

[@djembejambi]

You actually didn’t tell us why you told us what and who

[@shatushka246]

What the fuck were those meatballs

[@Mulder-Scully]

I agree totally, it scares me to think were relying on Petey to take us to the cup? As much as i love him i just don't think when push comes to shove in the playoffs we can count on him to step up? Just look back to our chance to will the cup in 2011, the Sedins were manhandled against Boston and basically turtled in the finals when we needed them most......Sigh

[@ethanparker7900]

we tbh everyone disappeared in the finals mostly cause like 8-9 people were crippled with injuries by that point. Obviously the sedins were the 2 biggest faces of the franchise but it takes everyone to win and tbh despite the lack of goals the canucks scored in that series, the series still went a full 7 games. I ofc was glad to see the bruins win but ofc the canuck players and coaches i gotta hand them my utmost respect too. Ofc their fans are ruthless but the people in the organization are a different story

[@SportspIus]

NO WERE NOT! Were just desperate.

[@ThreadDaNeedleUSA]

Hey Man I own a hockey company in the US and would love to talk about a partnership.

[@HecticHockey]

email me: [e-mail]

[@glenw-xm5zf]

So how come 50+ years and no cup? Canadians are the best players on the planet..in the World Juniors we prove tis over and over again. But hey. mark Recchi playing just 230 miles up the pike, in kamloops and Quinn Drafts Rob Woodward.We also passed on matt Tkachuk for a Swede De man who never did a thing. Anyone ever heard the name Yo levie? WE are dumb. We also could have take jakob Chychrun who put up like 18 points as a19 yr iold rookie

[@viperswhip]

Messier? Lol, are you a Canucks fan? It is hard to tell based on this video haha

[@HecticHockey]

obviously not

[@charlesjohnson166]

They dont like to win

[@Y.A.A.E.G._Games]

Seems like sens are to

[@knganth3m]

Damn, didn’t even finish the video cause of how much the Canucks suck, is there an email I can complain too? 😝 that’d be awesome

[@vincemorgan6730]

leaders the seidns aren't leaders more like loosers I know I will take hate for this comment but they suck and I would never want them on my team cause I know I can't win a cup. When Vancouver figures out the way to win is Canadian they might get one