{"id":116846,"date":"2021-08-11T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=116846"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:39:49","slug":"kronwall-zetterberg-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/08\/11\/kronwall-zetterberg-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrik Zetterberg, Niklas Kronwall Named Team Sweden Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Beijing Olympics will feature a few big names from Sweden. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zettehe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Zetterberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kronwni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niklas Kronwall<\/a> have been appointed advisors to Team Sweden. Chris Johnston announced the news this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Niklas Kronwall and Henrik Zetterberg have been named advisors to Tre Kronor for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1425428748854251521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Zetterberg, Kronwall Named Team Sweden Advisors<\/h2>\n<p>Zetterberg and Kronwall are two members of the elite Triple Gold Club, having won the Stanley Cup, the World Championships, and Olympic Gold. They will be a huge boon to Team Sweden as they evolve into the next era. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> legends played for Team Sweden multiple times throughout their careers, winning gold in 2006. They were the fastest players in the history of hockey to earn such honours.<\/p>\n<p>Zetterberg served as Team Sweden&#8217;s captain in 2014 and has been heavily involved in Sweden&#8217;s roster since then. To say that these two are household names in Sweden is an understatement &#8212; they&#8217;re widely regarded as some of the best Swedes to ever play hockey. Both players were huge pieces in the Red Wings&#8217; Stanley Cup victory in 2008. Zetterberg went on to win the Conn Smythe Trophy after shutting down Sidney Crosby in the Finals.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Team<\/h3>\n<p>The addition of these two titans will greatly benefit the Tre Konor. From Zetterberg&#8217;s intense two-way knowledge to Kronwall&#8217;s smart defensive play, the team will likely have a lot to work with. While the team&#8217;s roster hasn&#8217;t been announced yet, it&#8217;s likely Sweden will bring big names like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/landega01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Landeskog<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nylanwi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Nylander<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hedmavi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Hedman<\/a> to the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how much they&#8217;ll be involved with Team Sweden. Both Kronwall and Zetterberg have won Olympic Gold. They know firsthand what it takes to win. It&#8217;s likely that they&#8217;ll have a say in who makes the 2022 Olympic roster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Photo:\u00a0<\/strong><a id=\"4y_GpDNeSiRaOHgfPa9fkA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/468967593\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'4y_GpDNeSiRaOHgfPa9fkA',sig:'1g7XuWTOlXk1Yqv1Ub4T51ZkNeRgbxFfWbC7XNNergA=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'468967593',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Beijing Olympics will feature a few big names from Sweden. Henrik Zetterberg and Niklas Kronwall have been appointed advisors to Team Sweden. Chris Johnston announced the news this morning: Niklas Kronwall and Henrik Zetterberg have been named advisors to Tre Kronor for the 2022 Beijing Olympics. \u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) August 11, 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3676,"featured_media":116847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2963,4,4547,304,4548],"tags":[6368,292,447,1102,7081],"class_list":["post-116846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","category-redwings","category-hockey","category-international-hockey","category-nhl","tag-2022-olympics","tag-henrik-zetterberg","tag-niklas-kronwall","tag-team-sweden","tag-winter-olympics"],"modified_by":"Brandon Higley-Blair, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}