February 11, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Hockey":
Business & Money: 10 Feb 12
Mats Sundin, the ex-Swedish hockey great, has made a donation supporting research into children's health at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the University of Toronto.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 12
With union leader Stefan Löfven set to take over as head of the Social Democrats, The Local takes a look at how a welder from northern Sweden found his way to the top ranks of Swedish politics.
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Sport: 6 Jan 12
After a 31-year wait and a gut wrenching game, the Swedish Junior National Hockey team are finally world champions, beating Russia 1-0.
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Sport: 4 Jan 12
The Swedish ice-hockey juniors reached the World Cup final after a gut wrenching turn against sister nation Finland during the night to Wednesday.
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Lifestyle: 12 Dec 11
Contributor Lola Akinmade-Åkerström offers up five tell-tale signs that Swedes have truly been gripped by the holiday spirit.
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Sport: 5 Dec 11
Things got out of hand at a hockey game for 11-year-olds in western Sweden after heckling of a boy by two members of the audience triggered a massive brawl amongst the parents.
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Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
The popular Swedish equestrian sport of trotting reaches a hoof-thundering climax this weekend with the V75 meet at Jägersro near Malmö, Geoff Mortimore explores the sport where "lagom" really is best.
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Sport: 2 Oct 11
Sven Tumba, one of Sweden's most famous ever sports stars, died in hospital in Stockholm on Saturday at the age of 80, following a long illness.
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Society: 27 Sep 11
Swedish ex-ice hockey pro Anders Parmström slammed a court decision to fine him after a fatal crash involving a deer, claiming that it was the "animal that hit his car".
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Business & Money: 21 Sep 11
During the first half of 2011 more than 450 former local politicians shared a total of 42 million kronor ($6.3 million) in "temporary" early retirement pensions pay out, according to a new report.
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Sport: 8 Sep 11
Grief stricken Swedish ice hockey players and fans expressed their sorrow over the death of national team goaltender Stefan Liv, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia that decimated the Lokomotiv ice hockey team.
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Sport: 7 Sep 11
Swedish national ice hockey team goalie Stefan Liv was among those killed in the crash of a Russian passenger plane that went down on Wednesday carrying members of the Lokomotiv ice hockey team.
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Sport: 29 Jul 11
Former National Hockey League (NHL) star Mike Danton, who was jailed for conspiring to murder his agent, used Twitter to announce he'd signed on with a new team in Sweden.
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Society: 14 Jul 11
Despite the nasty weather a brave crowd had gathered to congratulate Crown Princess Victoria on her birthday at the Royal Family’s summer residence Solliden on the Baltic island of Öland on Thursday.
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Sport: 1 Jul 11
The Colorado Avalanche, the final career port of call for Swedish hockey legend Peter Forsberg, are to honour their former star by making him only the fourth player to have their number retired.
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Sport: 23 Jun 11
Swedish hockey star Daniel Sedin was among the big winners at the National Hockey League's annual awards show on Wednesday, with fellow Swede Nicklas Lidström also taking another step toward making history.
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Sport: 21 Jun 11
Swedish star defenseman Nicklas Lidström has signed a one year deal with the Detroit Red Wings that allows him to play for a 20th season in the National Hockey League.
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Sport: 16 May 11
Several thousand Finnish ice hockey fans crossed the border to Haparanda in northern Sweden late on Sunday night after their spectacular 6-1 World Championship win, forcing local police to call for reinforcements to control order.
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Sport: 16 May 11
Sweden were given a hockey lesson in their World Championship final clash with Finland on Sunday, with their Nordic neighbours coming back from a goal down to walk away with the title 6-1.
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Sport: 14 May 11
Sweden reached its first ice hockey World Cup Final in five years on Saturday, following a comprehensive victory over the Czech Republic.
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National: 5 May 11
Sweden clinched top spot in Group C at the world hockey championships in Slovakia on Wednesday after comfortably beating the United States 6-2.
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Sport: 1 May 11
Norway came from behind to claim a first ever ice hockey win over Sweden on Saturday as the teams opened their Group C campaigns at the world championships in Slovakia.
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Sport: 20 Apr 11
Teemu Selänne aka "The Finnish Flash" has confirmed rumours that despite being one his country's most faithful servants on the ice, he has been bearing a terrible tattooed secret since a drunken stag night over a decade ago.
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Sport: 15 Apr 11
Färjestad BK were crowned champions of Sweden's top professional ice hockey league for the ninth time on Thursday night following a convincing 4-1 victory over Skellefteå.
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Sport: 1 Apr 11
Swedish hockey star Daniel Sedin scored and set up the winner as the Vancouver Canucks claimed their first Presidents' Trophy on Thursday, beating Los Angeles.
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Sport: 21 Mar 11
Swedish NHL star Nicklas Lidström has been honoured by his US hometown in recognition of his sporting achievements with the Detroit Red Wings.
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Politics: 12 Mar 11
A squad featuring hockey playing diplomats from the Finnish embassy took home gold in the second annual Stockholm Diplomatic Cup hockey tournament on Friday.
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Sport: 14 Feb 11
Swedish hockey legend Peter Forsberg has given up on his bid to make a comeback in the National Hockey League and is retiring from ice hockey.
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Sport: 31 Jan 11
Veteran Swedish defenceman Nicklas Lidström captained his all-star squad to a 11-10 win against Team Eric Staal in the National Hockey League All-Star Game in Raleigh, North Carolina on Sunday.
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Sport: 22 Jan 11
Swedish hockey star Peter Forsberg plans to practice with the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday to see if he’s ready for a comeback in the National Hockey League at age 37.
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Lifestyle: 20 Oct 10
As Sweden hunkers down to face the onset of winter, contributor Joshua Gregory explains how fans of America’s favourite pastime cope with having their remedy for the winter blues remain a world away.
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Sport: 9 Oct 10
The National Hockey League's (NHL) San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets opened their 2010-11 season in Stockholm on Friday night, with the Sharks edging the Jackets 3-2.
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Lifestyle: 7 Oct 10
Sweden’s passion for ice hockey will be on display this weekend when teams from the National Hockey League square off in Stockholm, but the fast-moving sport wasn’t always near and dear to Swedes’ hearts, The Local’s David Landes discovered.
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Lifestyle: 6 Oct 10
What’s on in Sweden: Fringe Festival and ice hockey in Stockholm, John Cleese silly walks into Gothenburg, and the sound of the Theremin haunts Malmö.
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Society: 2 Sep 10
Princess Madeleine is one of three celebrity women who came out on top when Swedish men were asked to plump for their dream woman in a survey of fantasies, health and the fairer sex.
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Business & Money: 14 Jul 10
Swedish ice hockey legend Peter Forsberg has announced the closure of his shoe firm Pforce which became synonymous with the Crocs brand of sandals in Sweden - known as "Foppatofflan" after the star's nickname.
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National: 28 Jun 10
It has become more expensive to be a parent in Sweden with the costs incurred from having a baby climbing 43 percent in real terms over 30 years, due to parents demanding a higher living standard for their children, a new report shows.
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National: 14 Jun 10
BP’s problems are proving to be the toughest test yet in the career of Swedish business’s golden boy Carl-Henric Svanberg, writes James Savage.
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National: 13 Jun 10
When Carl-Henric Svanberg jettisoned telecoms giant Ericsson for British Petroleum last year, he could not in his worst nightmares have forecast the severity of the spotlight in which he now finds himself.
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Sport: 24 May 10
Sweden rounded off their ice hockey world championships with a 3-1 win over hosts Germany to claim the bronze in the the third-place play-off in Cologne on Sunday.
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National: 23 May 10
Sweden fell at the semi final stage in the world ice hockey championship as the "Three Crowns" were edged out 3-2 by the Czech Republic in a penalty shoot-out in Cologne on Saturday.
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Sport: 21 May 10
Sweden's Tre Kronor will face the Czech Republic in the semi-finals of the World Hockey Championships.
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Sport: 19 May 10
Following his first season in the NBA, Jonas Jerebko has returned to Sweden to a warm reception from both the media and fans.
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Sport: 18 May 10
Swedish hockey player Nicklas Bäckström has signed a 10-year $67 million contract with his NHL team, the Washington Capitals, after completing the best season of his career.
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Society: 6 May 10
The ruins in the medieval city of Visby on Gotland are set to become a popular offbeat choice for Swedish couples to tie the marital knot after Gotland's Museum took over the sites and loosened up rental restrictions.
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National: 25 Apr 10
HV71 left the capital clutching the Swedish ice hockey championship trophy on Saturday after a dramatic victory over Stockholm team Djurgården in game six of the final series.
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Sport: 9 Apr 10
A 36-year-old Hammarby supporter has successfully appealed a conviction for assault following an arranged fight between around 100 rival football fans in a small town in southern Sweden.
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Society: 30 Mar 10
Sweden's national lottery operator, Svenska Spel, has managed to track down the winner of a record 214.6 million kronor ($29.5 million) jackpot, who now plans to spend some of the money on better seats to watch his local football team.
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National: 15 Mar 10
Sweden's sledge hockey team received a thumping in Vancouver on Sunday as Canada posted a 10-1 win in the second group game at the Paralympic Games.
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National: 25 Feb 10
Sweden, the defending Olympic men's hockey champions, has been eliminated from the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Wednesday, losing to Slovakia 4-3 in their quarter-final.
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National: 22 Feb 10
Sweden clinched a place in the last eight of the Vancouver Winter Olympic
hockey tournament with a 3-0 win over Finland on Sunday evening.
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Sport: 18 Feb 10
Sweden opened their Olympic hockey title defence with a 2-0 victory over Germany on Wednesday with goals from Mattius Öhlund and Henrik Lundqvist.
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Sport: 16 Feb 10
Swedish ice-hockey's talisman, Peter Forsberg, reports that he is winning his fight to be fit to seek his third Olympic crown with the Tre Kronor national team.
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Sport: 15 Feb 10
Tomas Holmström's Olympic dream came an abrupt end this weekend as the Swedish right wing suffered an injury to his left knee while playing for the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.
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Sport: 12 Feb 10
The Vancouver 2010 Olympics gets underway on Friday at 7pm Swedish time. The opening events include ski jumping, the men's downhill and Sweden's women's hockey team in action against the Swiss.
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Sport: 10 Feb 10
Stockholm has been named as one of three cities which will play host to the six opening games of the National Hockey League next season.
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Sport: 5 Feb 10
Sweden has declared a target of ten medals at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, despite a record haul of 14 in Turin four years ago.
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National: 31 Jan 10
An ice-hockey referee died on Saturday when he was hit by a puck during a game.
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Sport: 26 Jan 10
A Swedish bandy player has been reported for hate speech after calling for Liverpool to "push forward harder than the Germans did on the Night of the Broken Glass" in their recent match against Tottenham.
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Sport: 29 Dec 09
A day after forward Mikael Samuelsson slammed the Swedish ice hockey team leadership for leaving him off the provisional Olympic roster, coach Bengt-Åke Gustafsson said he had no plans to reach out to the disgruntled right winger.
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Sport: 28 Dec 09
More than 31,000 spectators are expected to brave Sweden’s chilly winter temperatures to attend a hockey match in Gothenburg on Monday night, setting a new European record in the process.
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Sport: 28 Dec 09
Swedish hockey legend Peter Forsberg, who has twice helped his country capture Olympic gold, was among the 23 players provisionally named on Sunday to the squad heading to Vancouver to defend Sweden’s Olympic ice hockey title.
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Sport: 27 Dec 09
While Sweden was set to release its provisional roster for its 2010 Olympic hockey team on Sunday, the Ottawa Senators announced that their captain, Daniel Alfredsson, a key player in Sweden's 2006 Olympic gold medal run, will be out four to six weeks.
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Sport: 14 Dec 09
A quick thinking referee saved the life of a Swedish ice hockey player after the player’s heart stopped during a match on Sunday.
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Sport: 18 Nov 09
A Swedish ice hockey player who was sentenced to two months in prison after fighting with an opposing player has had his conviction upheld upon appeal, but will not have to spend time behind bars.
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National: 13 Nov 09
Plans for the proposed 30,000-seater arena in the Swedish capital can begin after Stockholm City Council announced a financial agreement with AEG Facilities, the company that will run the stadium.
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Sport: 29 Oct 09
A Swedish ice hockey team has come in for withering criticism after it was revealed on Thursday that the squad’s players were vaccinated for the swine flu ahead of pregnant women and the chronically ill.
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Sport: 16 Oct 09
Swedish hockey player Nicklas Lidström made National Hockey League history on Thursday when he became the first European defender and only the eighth defender overall to reach 1,000 points..
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Sport: 10 Oct 09
Swedish ice hockey star and Detroit Red Wings forward Johan Franzén will be out for four months with a torn knee ligament and risks missing the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.
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Lifestyle: 6 Oct 09
The Year in Sweden - October: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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Sport: 30 Sep 09
Swedish hockey great Mats Sundin announced his retirement from professional ice hockey at a hastily announced press conference in Stockholm on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 22 Sep 09
Actor George Clooney is a "communist amateur" and Swedish actress and comedian Nour El-Refai is a "feminist bitch", according to someone, or several people, using computers traced to the Riksdag.
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Sport: 16 Sep 09
Swedish rookie goaltender Jonas Gustavsson has surgery on Tuesday to fix a heart problem, but is expected to back in uniform with the National Hockey League’s Toronto's Maple Leafs within a few days, the team said.
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Sport: 16 Jul 09
A number of Swedish stars from North America’s National Hockey League (NHL) will have the chance to open their 2009-2010 season in Stockholm, the league announced on Wednesday.
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Sport: 2 Jul 09
Sweden’s star ice hockey twins, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, have both agreed to extend their contracts with the National Hockey League’s Vancouver Canucks.
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Sport: 28 Jun 09
A record five Swedish ice hockey players were among the top 20 selected in this year's NHL draft announced in Montreal this weekend.
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Sport: 26 Jun 09
Jonas Jerebko, a native of Borås in western Sweden, became the first Swedish national to be drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA), being picked by the Detroit Pistons as the 39th pick overall.
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National: 23 Jun 09
A 31-year-old resident of Söderhamn in eastern Sweden has been charged with copyright infringement after publishing online streaming links to televised ice hockey matches on his personal homepage.
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Sport: 31 May 09
Swedish hockey star Johan Franzén opened the scoring in the NHL Stanley Cup finals on Saturday as defending champions Detroit seized the early advantage with a 3-1 victory over Pittsburgh in game one of the series.
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Sport: 25 May 09
Swedish star Henrik Zetterberg netted two goals as the Detroit Red Wings completed a 6-1 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks to extend a 3-1 lead in their Western Conference final series.
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Sport: 11 May 09
Sweden battled from a goal down to beat the United States 4-2 and claim the bronze medal at the World Ice Hockey Championships in Berne on Sunday. Russia won their second consecutive title later on Sunday.
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Sport: 8 May 09
Sweden cleared another hurdle on Thursday in its bid to reach the finals of the ice hockey World Championships in Switzerland by defeating the Czech Republic 3-1.
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Lifestyle: 5 May 09
Author and golf enthusiast Gene Oberto bisects the fairways of the nation in this above par guide to the golf courses of Sweden.
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Sport: 5 May 09
Ice hockey star Markus Näslund, who reached the National Hockey League All-Star Game five times and notched more than 800 career points, announced his retirement on Monday.
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Sport: 4 May 09
Sweden recorded a 4-1 victory over the hosts Switzerland in Berne on Sunday to book a slot in the World Ice Hockey Championship quarter-finals.
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Sport: 30 Apr 09
Sweden scored a thrilling, 6-5 come from behind victory against the United States in sudden death overtime on Wednesday night at the World Ice Hockey Championships in Berne, Switzerland.
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Sport: 28 Apr 09
Sweden suffered an unexpected loss to Latvia in the world ice hockey championships on Monday, falling 2-3 in a penalty shootout.
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Politics: 13 Apr 09
Lars Ohly, the leader of the Swedish Left party, was rushed to hospital on Friday. After experiencing stomach pains Ohly underwent an emergency operation.
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Sport: 9 Apr 09
Champagne flowed through the night in Karlstad in western Sweden on Wednesday as local heroes Färjestads BK secured the Swedish ice hockey title with victory over Jönköping team HV71.
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Lifestyle: 2 Apr 09
With the Swedish football season kicking of this weekend, Nic Townsend separates the title hopefuls from the relegation woefuls in a team by team analysis of the Allsvenskan.
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Analysis & Opinion: 25 Mar 09
Every week, we ask a regular panel of readers to discuss a particular aspect of life in Sweden. This week: linguistic faux pas.
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Sport: 29 Jan 09
Swedish star Henrik Zetterberg signed a 12-year multi-million dollar contract with Detroit in a deal that will likely keep him with the Red Wings for the remainder of his career.
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Sport: 26 Jan 09
Sweden claimed its ninth bandy world championship on Sunday, overpowering Russia 6-1 in a come from behind victory.
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National: 16 Jan 09
A 14-year-old in Linköping in central Sweden suspected in dozens of crimes continues to evade authorities in part because he is too young to be investigated by police.
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Lifestyle: 8 Jan 09
What's on in Sweden: January 9th - 15th. The Stranglers and Lindy Hop in Stockholm; Manfred Mann and Belgian electronica in Gothenburg; Future Cop! in Malmö.
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Sport: 8 Jan 09
Mats Sundin made his long anticipated debut for the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday as his new National Hockey League club posted a win with the Swedish star in its lineup.
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Sport: 19 Dec 08
Swedish ice hockey forward Mats Sundin has completed a high profile switch from the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Vancouver Canucks
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Science & Technology: 27 Nov 08
Computer games are nearly three times more popular among Swedes than football and ice hockey combined, according to a new study.
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Lifestyle: 18 Nov 08
Jennifer Heape checks out what Malmö has to offer in terms of entertainment and activities for families with kids this winter.
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Sport: 31 Oct 08
The Swedish captain of the Ottawa Senators, Daniel Alfredsson, has signed a four-year contract extension to remain with the National Hockey League club, team owner Eugene Melnyk announced Thursday.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"Remember how your kids used to dance around the room to The Gummy Bears and Astid Lindgren? And now, since they started gymnasium, they listen to guitar or electronic music, or reggae, or hip hop, or Sean Banan?? That's not proper music! They are clearly junkies!" READ »
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