VIEW FROM SWEDEN<\/p>\n
Team Sweden coach Sam Hallam is back in Stockholm after spending a couple of months scouting NHL games in North America for Olympic candidates.<\/p>\n
And, like Armstrong, he feels like Sweden\u2019s potential roster construction is in a good place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say my confidence in our process is huge right now,\u201d Hallam told NHL.com in a phone interview. \u201cI think we are pretty sure about 14,15 guys. And then, for the last 10 spots, it\u2019ll be how the guys are playing right down to the deadline.<\/p>\n
Hallam said one of the situations he and his staff are monitoring involves Minnesota Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt<\/a>, the 23-year-old who is 8-1-2 with a 1.95 GAA, .936 save percentage and four shutouts.<\/p>\n \u201cSure, you can look at experience or, in the case of younger guys, a lack thereof,\u201d Hallam said. \u201cBut at that position, I think a lot has to do with how you are playing at the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not a surprise. If you go back, he\u2019s been top ranked going back to his days as a junior. We all expected him to play this way sooner or later, and now he\u2019s in a good place in Minnesota. So he\u2019s showing he\u2019s really ready for it. We\u2019re monitoring that situation really closely.\u201d<\/p>\n Two players Hallam said that have caught the collective eyes of the team brass: forward Emil Heineman<\/a> (10 goals, six assists) of the New York Islanders and defenseman Philip Broberg<\/a> (two goals, eight assists) of the Blues.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve played their ways to the point where they\u2019ve caught our attention,\u201d he said. \u201cJust a couple more decisions we\u2019ll be facing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIEW FROM SWEDEN Team Sweden coach Sam Hallam is back in Stockholm after spending a couple of months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-331984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}