GOLDEN FIT

His career didn’t take off in earnest until he left Columbus, but now Karlsson is thriving both on and off the ice in Vegas – and he’s hoping to build an army there

BY KEN CAMPBELL

THERE ARE PROBABLY A lot of Swedish guys who have tripped the light fantastic with their moms to Dancing Queen by Abba on a starry summer night, but that didn’t make it any less adorable. And the fact Lord Stanley was looking on approvingly only a couple of feet away rendered it all kinds of outstanding. Yeah, and there are probably a ton of Swedish guys who marry American reality TV stars, right? And of all the Swedes in NHL history who have hoisted the Stanley Cup, who among them hasn’t celebrated by parading around shirtless, then falling down the stairs before dropping a bunch of F-bombs in their speech? William Karlsson insists he’s just like his compatriots from The Baltic Sea Nation That Abjectly Refuses to Produce Jerks™. Contrary to his…

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The Hockey News (Digital) - 1 Issue, World Juniors Special 2024

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