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CLEVELAND. When Sportbladet during the long hockey break this spring featured the best Swedes in NHL history, it finished in ninth place.
It was too low a position, we can now say that he, as the third blue-yellow star, won the Conn Smythe Trophy.
Victor Hedman is one of the largest we have exported to North America.
Hart and Vezina and Norris and all that trophies are called in all glory:
There is no bigger individual award in the world of hockey than Conn Smythe.
The one who wins has been the best when it meant the most, and what could be more valuable?
Until last night, only two other Swedes in history, Nicklas Lidström in 2002 and Henrik Zetterberg in 2008, had received this treasure, but now the most exclusive blue-yellow hockey society consists of three immortal icons.
Because it was Victor Hedman who, after the crazy celebration of new Stanley Cup champions, Tampa Bay Lightning on the ice at Rogers Place in Edmonton, had to run up to Commissioner Gary Bettman and greet Conn Smythe.
Photo: Jason Franson / TT NEWS AGENCY
It’s especially impressive because the champion team’s competition was excellent to say the least. Brayden Point, Nikita Kucherov, and goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevsky also made worthy contributions to entire collections of poems.
But “Vigge” from Fäbodvägen in Varvet in Örnsköldsvik was probably the most indispensable of all. Without the bastard who broke the Swedish point record for defenders, and with his ten hits to third place on the all-time list of defenders signed for playoff goals, there would have been no championship. It was absolutely outstanding, from start to finish.
And yes, we have to lift it several places as well on that Sportbladet list from last spring.
Victor Hedman is, not talked about after this late summer show, one of our biggest.
Photo: Jason Franson / TT NEWS AGENCY
We can also affirm that the Tampa Bay Lightning now “made” a Washington Capitals to 2018 and expelled its demons.
They have been good at hockey for many years, but you also have to learn how to win and for a long time it seemed that the Bolts, like the Capitals until two years ago, could not absorb that lesson.
Especially after last year’s collapse against Columbus in the first round, many were convinced that they would become one of those brilliant teams that never made it to the kingdom of heaven.
But now it’s there, because in this year’s playoffs, Tampa was clearly “on a mission from God,” playing its best hockey at the most critical moments and de facto never losing two games in a row.
So you have developed exactly the right kind of mental strength, and then you are a worthy teacher.
Another finding:
The pandemic version of the Stanley Cup playoffs was as quirky and apart as a sporting event can be, and I sincerely hope we never see anything like this again, but the NHL and its administration are to be congratulated on how incredibly well it was handled. cape. Under the circumstances, it was a resounding success.
It also ended up with the correct champion and the correct winner from Conn Smythe.
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