March 11, 2025 • 18 mins
Linus Karlsson joins us from our new Pioneer Auto Group Jeep studio to discuss his hockey journey from Sweden to North America and the challenges of adapting to a different style of play. Linus shares insights about his NHL experience while revealing the mental aspects of professional hockey that fans rarely see.
• Linus discusses his new Jeep from Pioneer Auto Group and how it fits his hockey lifestyle
• Comparison of Swedish versus North American hockey styles - bigger European rinks mean more possession, while smaller North American ice demands physicality
• Growing up in a small Swedish town of just 1,500 people that produced three NHL players
• How Erik Karlsson and Johan Franzen from his hometown became his hockey inspirations
• Reflections on international tournaments and the excitement of seeing national teams compete
• Managing the mental challenges of playing professional hockey in a new country
• Working with a mental coach to handle the ups and downs of NHL/AHL transitions
• The importance of having fun and not rushing development as a young hockey player
• Playing multiple sports growing up, particularly soccer until age 14
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up?
Welcome back to the 254thepisode of the Athletes Podcast.
You'll see we're in a newstudio today.
That is thanks to PioneerChrysler Auto Group here in the
lower mainland of BritishColumbia.
Pioneer Aldergrove hooked me uphere with this amazing Jeep
Plug-in hybrid, if you haven'tnoticed.
It's environmentally friendly.
And today's guest was alsohooked up with a Jeep Brand new,
(00:23):
thanks to Pioneer Auto Group.
And today's guest is alsohooked up with a Jeep Brand new,
thanks to Pioneer Auto Group.
And today's guest is LinusCarlson.
Kind of a big deal in the hockeyworld.
If you folks didn't know, wewere at the event with Linus
Carlson in person at PioneerAuto Group Chrysler in Mission,
where we witnessed him signingsome autographs, getting some
pictures with some fans and alsowe were able to give away a
(00:44):
couple tickets for some localhockey specifically, our winner
this week was jennifer nitroll.
So if you have not yet heard,we will be contacting you,
jennifer, and you are the winnerof two abbotsford canucks
tickets.
Thank you for being inattendance and for participating
and for you folks watching thisshow, because that's how we
(01:05):
continue to grow the AthletesPodcast.
We're at 254 episodes as of now, which is crazy, and you folks
have been along for the ride.
Let me know down below how longyou've actually been watching
for.
That way, we know who the realfans are of the AP.
And for the folks who didn'tcatch us in person at the event
or win the tickets, maybe thisis your incentive to pay more
(01:27):
attention here on the athletespodcast, as we're going to be
doing more giveaways, more waysfor you to win cool prizes,
connect with cool people andultimately continue learning,
which is what we all ultimatelylike to do here on the athletes
podcast end up performing better.
We're here to educate,entertain and inspire.
That next, we appreciate youbeing a part of it.
And, if you folks didn't know,we're brought to you by, and
(01:47):
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This is the 254th episode of theAthletes Podcast featuring
Linus Carlsen.
Here we go.
You're the most decoratedracquetball player in us history
, world's strongest man, fromchildhood passion to
(02:33):
professional athlete, eight-timeironman champion.
So what was it like making yourdebut in the nhl?
What is your biggest piece ofadvice for the next generation
of athletes, from underdogs tonational champions?
This is the athletes wherehigh-performance individuals
share their triumphs, defeatsand life lessons to educate,
entertain and inspire the nextgeneration of athletes.
(02:56):
Here we go.
I almost forget his name.
You forget his name.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, yeah, he's the commentator.
He's commentating games, soafter games, sometimes you have
to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, some of the requirements right, yeah yeah,
is it part of the job?
You got to sign autos, you gotto take pictures it's fun yo uh,
and it is fun right, yeah, itis that's perks of the job?
Yeah, not just playing hockey.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No sometimes you have to do these things, and it's
always nice when people come byright, and then you also get
hooked up with brand newvehicles.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah, I really appreciate that.
Right, tell me about the Jeep.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Europe.
Oh, we got.
They're gonna wash.
Thank you, brother.
Awesome, awesome.
That's the kind of service youget at Pioneer Auto Group.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's really nice.
I'm happy that's uh, it was areally good deal that you helped
me out with.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Right, I know where it's.
Uh, I'm spoiled.
This is my first hybrid ever,is it?
And uh, first Jeep Dude, I loveit.
I can fit all my hockey gear inthe back.
Oh, that's awesome.
I'm a goalie, so you know we'rea little crazy sometimes but
yeah uh, hey, at least we gethooked up with nice vehicles.
What's your favorite part aboutit?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
uh, I think it's just like it's.
It's this big like you can have.
Like you I travel a lot and, uh, when you get back from sweden
you have a lot, and when you getback from Sweden you have a lot
of things to bring to theapartment and stuff, so it's
really easy to just put it inthere and you can fill it pretty
quick.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, what's been the biggest adjustment?
Playing in Sweden now over herein North America, what changes
the most?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Of course the rink is so much bigger in sweden, or
yeah, uh, so like it's kind ofdifferent game, like it's more
possession in sweden, like it'shard to get stops and, um, it's
a little bit more.
You can spend more time in thed zone because like it's hard to
close the gap and uh, always,like also, the neutral zone is a
(05:10):
little bit like smaller so youcan here it's harder to make
plays, you, you, you have todump it in more often than in
Sweden.
You more like possession andtry to skate it in right and
always the physicality is alwaysso, so, so a big thing, big
difference yeah, yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Uh, I grew up watching, you know.
Roberto loango, marcus naslin,the sedine twins.
That was like the introductionto swedish hockey for me.
What was for you?
Who were your inspirations?
Who'd you watch growing up?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
uh, eric carlson was uh, he's from my hometown.
And also joan franson playedfor detroit.
Yeah, yeah, so those two he'sfrom my hometown.
And also Jovan Fransen, whoplayed for Detroit yeah, yeah,
so those two are both from myhometown, so I always watch them
play.
But then you also watch JesseDeans, you watch Seth Berg.
Those guys you watch too whenthey play for a national team.
(06:08):
But if I had to choose players,it's probably France and Erik
Karlsson.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, tough to beat Erik Karlsson, and when he's got
your last name too.
Yeah, exactly, we are from areally really small town.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All of us like I think it's like 1,500 people,
and so it's kind of crazy thatthey have like three inch ellers
, yeah, that is wild, yeah, itis so.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, of course you look up to them what, uh, what
was the the biggest adjustmentfor you?
Obviously you know you comeover here to north america, you
get drafted.
Is there a particular kind ofcanadian slang that you've been
able to get accustomed to, orany favorite words that you like
to throw out there?
Now you're Swedish friends?
No, not really actually not.
(06:56):
You didn't hear anything liketell me how that four nations
felt, with obviously Swedenbeing involved.
You've got so much historybehind those teams.
What was it like for youwatching it?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
no, it was fun.
It's uh, it's always fun towatch the best players, you know
, like uh, uh, no, it was.
It was like see how fast thegame is when all the all the
best players in the world.
Uh, it was crazy.
It was really fun.
And uh, yeah, of course, it'suh unlucky for sweden.
They didn't make their finals,but uh.
(07:29):
But now I think we I would loveto see more of those kind of
tournaments Like you see thebest playing with each other and
against each other.
So now that it was like I thinkI really want to see more of
that, like the Olympics andstuff.
I think that would be crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So much national pride.
It's been bottled up fordecades.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You can see the US ands and canada game.
Like the first game, they startfighting each other and it was
just like oh right let's go who,uh, who's been the hardest
goalie you've ever had to goagainst?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
oh?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
hardest goalie, that's a good one.
Um who do I play against?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Even in practice.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Practice, I mean Like there's probably someone over
here I played recently, maybewho did I play?
I played Edmonton.
I played Nashville Jusisaurus.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, jusisaurus, yeah, good finish.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I scored my first on him too.
That was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was going to say tell me about that first goal.
No one that was.
Everyone asked you about it,but no one picking up the puck.
What happened there?
You give the boys a little heck.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Hogs told me I asked the ref and he was like he
didn't give care.
I got the puck and I didn'treally care.
I didn't even think about itduring the game.
But I just saw someone tweetabout it after and I was like OK
, I didn't really care.
But then someone just sent methe tweet and I was like OK, but
(09:05):
I think the hogster said hetried to, but then he didn't get
the puck and yeah, it was justa fun thing yeah no, it was
crazy, it was uh.
I waited for that for a couplegames, so it was just like nice
to see it go in.
Yeah, uh, just to get it done.
You know, like you always likewondered when did it happen?
(09:26):
Can I just get the first oneand then selling it happened get
the monkey off the back.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
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The last question, or one ofthe last questions.
(10:42):
I always bring up traveling abunch.
My buddy Kalen did aninternship over in Sweden and
one of the things he said youknow, dealing with mental health
, there can be difficultiesplaying on the ice, ups and
downs going between teams.
How do you manage that?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, that's hard.
That was probably the hardestthing when you came over here.
I actually have a mental coachback in Sweden that I talk to a
lot and that's like we work withthose kind of things.
But, and you like, my firstyear was kind of a bit harder
(11:17):
because now you start learninglike how to deal with stuff and
you know how everything works.
Like my first year didn'treally know the call-ups, like
who gets call-ups, who, how doyou, how do you deserve a
call-up?
Or like now you like you, youknow how, like how I need to
play to get the call up, youknow how things work.
(11:40):
But yeah, it's differentbecause everyone in the NHL
fights for the same thing.
Everyone wants to play in theNHL.
So it's kind of competition.
In practices.
It's like every day is acompetition like who's going to
play up there.
Day is a competition like who'sgonna play up there.
(12:03):
But then also we actually havea really really good group down
in Abbotsford, so it's kind ofit's really fun to play there
too.
Like it's not like, oh no, Igot sent down.
Of course, like you always wantto play in the NHL, like you
always want to be there and youalways get pissed when you get
sent down.
But we have a really good groupdown here in Abbotsford too.
(12:24):
That's a fun group of guys thatI really enjoy to play with too
.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, and you know, you get to drive to the rink in
a new Jeep.
Your coach is Manny Malhotra.
Tell me about Manny, because hewas a Canucks legend.
There you know.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
No, he's really great .
He's intense, like he's.
No, I really like Manny.
He's a great guy.
He played in the NHL, so heknows what everyone's going
through and like, yeah, I thinkhe understands you really well.
So, no, I'm really enjoying toplay under him.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And where's one place you want to take your brand new
Jeep from Pioneer Auto Group?
I got to ask.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh I, where do I want to go, like somewhere close to
here.
Do you mean like wherever,wherever?
I would love to take you toEurope, but I probably can't do
that.
No, because in Europe everycountry is so close to each
(13:31):
other in Europe, so it would beawesome to just drive around
there, see a lot of newcountries and see a lot of new
cities and, yeah, eat a lot offood.
Italy is awesome.
What's your go-to food Back inSweden?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, if you had one dish what would you eat?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's kind of like the pizzas in Sweden is kind of
different from here.
Okay, how so?
That's like we have like thelike.
Do you know gyros, or what doyou call it Gyros?
Yeah, yeah, we have that on thepizza and like a really nice
sauce.
That's like called kebab pizza.
Okay, that's like I wouldbabpizza.
(14:19):
Okay, that's like, uh, I wouldlove to have one of those now.
Yeah, and then also like themeatballs is always good, but
you can cook them here too, likeit's not hard to to do not, not
not ikea ones.
No, not ikea ones, it's have to.
You have to make them yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Uh, so, like mom was here a couple months ago and she
made some meatballs and it wasreally really good nothing beats
mom's meatballs no, exactly uhthe way we wrap up every episode
, linus, is we ask our gueststheir biggest piece of advice
for the next generation ofathletes.
There was one thing you wishyou knew when you were a younger
hockey player growing up.
(14:56):
What would it be?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
um, I think it's no, you don't need to.
If you love the game, you don'tneed to rush uh things like
everyone has to.
I want to be the first rounder.
I have to, I have to play inthat team when I'm this young,
or uh.
But if you love the game, youlove the, you love the sport, I
think, I think you can go yourown way.
(15:20):
You know, just because one ofthe guys plays in that team, it
doesn't mean you're not going tobe a good player.
Just have fun.
I think having fun is probablythe best advice I can give
someone.
If you don't think it's fun toplay, or then you find something
(15:42):
else like you have to find.
Have the love of the sports and, yeah, just have fun when you
play.
That's I think that's the mostimportant thing, because if you
don't do that, you don't havethe energy to put down the work
you have to do, you know.
So probably, have fun isprobably my best advice.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I like it.
What other sports did you playgrowing up Fast?
Last question Any other sportsdid you play?
Soccer?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I played.
I was trying like two, threepractice.
I played bandy.
Have you seen that?
What is that?
It's kind of like a soccerfield but it's ice and they play
with like a ball and then likea kind of special.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll do some research to get a
bandy athlete on, is it a?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Swedish game.
Yeah, it's kind of a Swedishgame.
I didn't really play games, Ijust play like three, four
practices, but then, like,hockey was always, always my
thing do you think they helpedyou, like playing bandy didn't
help?
No, no, not really, it was justlike three practices, so it
wasn't like really helping, Iwas just trying it.
Yeah, yeah, uh, but I playedsoccer until I was 14 and, okay,
(16:51):
that helped then, yeah, no, forsure, like I was, I think it's
me it was good to have somethingelse than just hockey.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's just like nice to do something else, focus on
just not hockey all the time.
I think all my other friendsplay hockey too, so like yeah,
it was just like fun to bearound friends and have fun.
Yeah, that's probably it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I love it, hey quick episode here with Linus Carlson
on the Athletes Podcast, episode254 with number 94.
Oh, that's awesome 254,.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
crazy, it's a couple 254, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Hey, thank you for coming on Seriously we'll look
forward to when you are leadingthe points for another.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Just want to say thank you, folks, for tuning in
to the 254th episode of theathletes podcast.
Obviously, this is a new formatwe hope you enjoy.
Let us know what you thinkbelow.
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It is getting me everywhere Ineed to go on a daily basis.
We're just having a great time.
I hope you guys are enjoying it, because I am myself personally
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(18:44):
I get to have these amazingconversations with these
individuals and hopefully you'regaining something from it again
.
Sincerely, thank you for tuningin.
I hope you enjoyed it.
We'll see you next week foranother episode.
Bye.
Hey, what's up?
Welcome back to the 254thepisode of the Athletes Podcast.
You'll see we're in a newstudio today.
That is thanks to PioneerChrysler Auto Group here in the
lower mainland of BritishColumbia.
Pioneer Aldergrove hooked me uphere with this amazing Jeep
Plug-in hybrid, if you haven'tnoticed.
It's environmentally friendly.
And today's guest was alsohooked up with a Jeep Brand new,
(00:23):
thanks to Pioneer Auto Group.
And today's guest is alsohooked up with a Jeep Brand new,
thanks to Pioneer Auto Group.
And today's guest is LinusCarlson.
Kind of a big deal in the hockeyworld.
If you folks didn't know, wewere at the event with Linus
Carlson in person at PioneerAuto Group Chrysler in Mission,
where we witnessed him signingsome autographs, getting some
pictures with some fans and alsowe were able to give away a
(00:44):
couple tickets for some localhockey specifically, our winner
this week was jennifer nitroll.
So if you have not yet heard,we will be contacting you,
jennifer, and you are the winnerof two abbotsford canucks
tickets.
Thank you for being inattendance and for participating
and for you folks watching thisshow, because that's how we
(01:05):
continue to grow the AthletesPodcast.
We're at 254 episodes as of now, which is crazy, and you folks
have been along for the ride.
Let me know down below how longyou've actually been watching
for.
That way, we know who the realfans are of the AP.
And for the folks who didn'tcatch us in person at the event
or win the tickets, maybe thisis your incentive to pay more
(01:27):
attention here on the athletespodcast, as we're going to be
doing more giveaways, more waysfor you to win cool prizes,
connect with cool people andultimately continue learning,
which is what we all ultimatelylike to do here on the athletes
podcast end up performing better.
We're here to educate,entertain and inspire.
That next, we appreciate youbeing a part of it.
And, if you folks didn't know,we're brought to you by, and
(01:47):
powered by, perfect SportsSupplements.
Captain America approved.
This is creatine, this is ourcollagen and this is our diesel
protein.
You folks know I combine allthree of these into my protein
shake every single morning.
Two scoops gets me about 60, 70grams of protein and I feel
amazing.
You, too, can save 20% if youuse the code AP20 at checkout.
(02:11):
We only have a few weeks ofthis code left, folks, so be
sure to save your money.
While you can, code AP20 atcheckout, save 20% on perfect
sports supplements every singleone.
This is the 254th episode of theAthletes Podcast featuring
Linus Carlsen.
Here we go.
You're the most decoratedracquetball player in us history
, world's strongest man, fromchildhood passion to
(02:33):
professional athlete, eight-timeironman champion.
So what was it like making yourdebut in the nhl?
What is your biggest piece ofadvice for the next generation
of athletes, from underdogs tonational champions?
This is the athletes wherehigh-performance individuals
share their triumphs, defeatsand life lessons to educate,
entertain and inspire the nextgeneration of athletes.
(02:56):
Here we go.
I almost forget his name.
You forget his name.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, yeah, he's the commentator.
He's commentating games, soafter games, sometimes you have
to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, some of the requirements right, yeah yeah,
is it part of the job?
You got to sign autos, you gotto take pictures it's fun yo uh,
and it is fun right, yeah, itis that's perks of the job?
Yeah, not just playing hockey.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No sometimes you have to do these things, and it's
always nice when people come byright, and then you also get
hooked up with brand newvehicles.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah, I really appreciate that.
Right, tell me about the Jeep.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Europe.
Oh, we got.
They're gonna wash.
Thank you, brother.
Awesome, awesome.
That's the kind of service youget at Pioneer Auto Group.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's really nice.
I'm happy that's uh, it was areally good deal that you helped
me out with.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Right, I know where it's.
Uh, I'm spoiled.
This is my first hybrid ever,is it?
And uh, first Jeep Dude, I loveit.
I can fit all my hockey gear inthe back.
Oh, that's awesome.
I'm a goalie, so you know we'rea little crazy sometimes but
yeah uh, hey, at least we gethooked up with nice vehicles.
What's your favorite part aboutit?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
uh, I think it's just like it's.
It's this big like you can have.
Like you I travel a lot and, uh, when you get back from sweden
you have a lot, and when you getback from Sweden you have a lot
of things to bring to theapartment and stuff, so it's
really easy to just put it inthere and you can fill it pretty
quick.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, what's been the biggest adjustment?
Playing in Sweden now over herein North America, what changes
the most?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Of course the rink is so much bigger in sweden, or
yeah, uh, so like it's kind ofdifferent game, like it's more
possession in sweden, like it'shard to get stops and, um, it's
a little bit more.
You can spend more time in thed zone because like it's hard to
close the gap and uh, always,like also, the neutral zone is a
(05:10):
little bit like smaller so youcan here it's harder to make
plays, you, you, you have todump it in more often than in
Sweden.
You more like possession andtry to skate it in right and
always the physicality is alwaysso, so, so a big thing, big
difference yeah, yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Uh, I grew up watching, you know.
Roberto loango, marcus naslin,the sedine twins.
That was like the introductionto swedish hockey for me.
What was for you?
Who were your inspirations?
Who'd you watch growing up?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
uh, eric carlson was uh, he's from my hometown.
And also joan franson playedfor detroit.
Yeah, yeah, so those two he'sfrom my hometown.
And also Jovan Fransen, whoplayed for Detroit yeah, yeah,
so those two are both from myhometown, so I always watch them
play.
But then you also watch JesseDeans, you watch Seth Berg.
Those guys you watch too whenthey play for a national team.
(06:08):
But if I had to choose players,it's probably France and Erik
Karlsson.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, tough to beat Erik Karlsson, and when he's got
your last name too.
Yeah, exactly, we are from areally really small town.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
All of us like I think it's like 1,500 people,
and so it's kind of crazy thatthey have like three inch ellers
, yeah, that is wild, yeah, itis so.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
No, of course you look up to them what, uh, what
was the the biggest adjustmentfor you?
Obviously you know you comeover here to north america, you
get drafted.
Is there a particular kind ofcanadian slang that you've been
able to get accustomed to, orany favorite words that you like
to throw out there?
Now you're Swedish friends?
No, not really actually not.
(06:56):
You didn't hear anything liketell me how that four nations
felt, with obviously Swedenbeing involved.
You've got so much historybehind those teams.
What was it like for youwatching it?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
no, it was fun.
It's uh, it's always fun towatch the best players, you know
, like uh, uh, no, it was.
It was like see how fast thegame is when all the all the
best players in the world.
Uh, it was crazy.
It was really fun.
And uh, yeah, of course, it'suh unlucky for sweden.
They didn't make their finals,but uh.
(07:29):
But now I think we I would loveto see more of those kind of
tournaments Like you see thebest playing with each other and
against each other.
So now that it was like I thinkI really want to see more of
that, like the Olympics andstuff.
I think that would be crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So much national pride.
It's been bottled up fordecades.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You can see the US ands and canada game.
Like the first game, they startfighting each other and it was
just like oh right let's go who,uh, who's been the hardest
goalie you've ever had to goagainst?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
oh?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
hardest goalie, that's a good one.
Um who do I play against?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Even in practice.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Practice, I mean Like there's probably someone over
here I played recently, maybewho did I play?
I played Edmonton.
I played Nashville Jusisaurus.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, jusisaurus, yeah, good finish.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I scored my first on him too.
That was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was going to say tell me about that first goal.
No one that was.
Everyone asked you about it,but no one picking up the puck.
What happened there?
You give the boys a little heck.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Hogs told me I asked the ref and he was like he
didn't give care.
I got the puck and I didn'treally care.
I didn't even think about itduring the game.
But I just saw someone tweetabout it after and I was like OK
, I didn't really care.
But then someone just sent methe tweet and I was like OK, but
(09:05):
I think the hogster said hetried to, but then he didn't get
the puck and yeah, it was justa fun thing yeah no, it was
crazy, it was uh.
I waited for that for a couplegames, so it was just like nice
to see it go in.
Yeah, uh, just to get it done.
You know, like you always likewondered when did it happen?
(09:26):
Can I just get the first oneand then selling it happened get
the monkey off the back.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
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The last question, or one ofthe last questions.
(10:42):
I always bring up traveling abunch.
My buddy Kalen did aninternship over in Sweden and
one of the things he said youknow, dealing with mental health
, there can be difficultiesplaying on the ice, ups and
downs going between teams.
How do you manage that?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, that's hard.
That was probably the hardestthing when you came over here.
I actually have a mental coachback in Sweden that I talk to a
lot and that's like we work withthose kind of things.
But, and you like, my firstyear was kind of a bit harder
(11:17):
because now you start learninglike how to deal with stuff and
you know how everything works.
Like my first year didn'treally know the call-ups, like
who gets call-ups, who, how doyou, how do you deserve a
call-up?
Or like now you like you, youknow how, like how I need to
play to get the call up, youknow how things work.
(11:40):
But yeah, it's differentbecause everyone in the NHL
fights for the same thing.
Everyone wants to play in theNHL.
So it's kind of competition.
In practices.
It's like every day is acompetition like who's going to
play up there.
Day is a competition like who'sgonna play up there.
(12:03):
But then also we actually havea really really good group down
in Abbotsford, so it's kind ofit's really fun to play there
too.
Like it's not like, oh no, Igot sent down.
Of course, like you always wantto play in the NHL, like you
always want to be there and youalways get pissed when you get
sent down.
But we have a really good groupdown here in Abbotsford too.
(12:24):
That's a fun group of guys thatI really enjoy to play with too
.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, and you know, you get to drive to the rink in
a new Jeep.
Your coach is Manny Malhotra.
Tell me about Manny, because hewas a Canucks legend.
There you know.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
No, he's really great .
He's intense, like he's.
No, I really like Manny.
He's a great guy.
He played in the NHL, so heknows what everyone's going
through and like, yeah, I thinkhe understands you really well.
So, no, I'm really enjoying toplay under him.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And where's one place you want to take your brand new
Jeep from Pioneer Auto Group?
I got to ask.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh I, where do I want to go, like somewhere close to
here.
Do you mean like wherever,wherever?
I would love to take you toEurope, but I probably can't do
that.
No, because in Europe everycountry is so close to each
(13:31):
other in Europe, so it would beawesome to just drive around
there, see a lot of newcountries and see a lot of new
cities and, yeah, eat a lot offood.
Italy is awesome.
What's your go-to food Back inSweden?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, if you had one dish what would you eat?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's kind of like the pizzas in Sweden is kind of
different from here.
Okay, how so?
That's like we have like thelike.
Do you know gyros, or what doyou call it Gyros?
Yeah, yeah, we have that on thepizza and like a really nice
sauce.
That's like called kebab pizza.
Okay, that's like I wouldbabpizza.
(14:19):
Okay, that's like, uh, I wouldlove to have one of those now.
Yeah, and then also like themeatballs is always good, but
you can cook them here too, likeit's not hard to to do not, not
not ikea ones.
No, not ikea ones, it's have to.
You have to make them yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Uh, so, like mom was here a couple months ago and she
made some meatballs and it wasreally really good nothing beats
mom's meatballs no, exactly uhthe way we wrap up every episode
, linus, is we ask our gueststheir biggest piece of advice
for the next generation ofathletes.
There was one thing you wishyou knew when you were a younger
hockey player growing up.
(14:56):
What would it be?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
um, I think it's no, you don't need to.
If you love the game, you don'tneed to rush uh things like
everyone has to.
I want to be the first rounder.
I have to, I have to play inthat team when I'm this young,
or uh.
But if you love the game, youlove the, you love the sport, I
think, I think you can go yourown way.
(15:20):
You know, just because one ofthe guys plays in that team, it
doesn't mean you're not going tobe a good player.
Just have fun.
I think having fun is probablythe best advice I can give
someone.
If you don't think it's fun toplay, or then you find something
(15:42):
else like you have to find.
Have the love of the sports and, yeah, just have fun when you
play.
That's I think that's the mostimportant thing, because if you
don't do that, you don't havethe energy to put down the work
you have to do, you know.
So probably, have fun isprobably my best advice.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I like it.
What other sports did you playgrowing up Fast?
Last question Any other sportsdid you play?
Soccer?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I played.
I was trying like two, threepractice.
I played bandy.
Have you seen that?
What is that?
It's kind of like a soccerfield but it's ice and they play
with like a ball and then likea kind of special.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll do some research to get a
bandy athlete on, is it a?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Swedish game.
Yeah, it's kind of a Swedishgame.
I didn't really play games, Ijust play like three, four
practices, but then, like,hockey was always, always my
thing do you think they helpedyou, like playing bandy didn't
help?
No, no, not really, it was justlike three practices, so it
wasn't like really helping, Iwas just trying it.
Yeah, yeah, uh, but I playedsoccer until I was 14 and, okay,
(16:51):
that helped then, yeah, no, forsure, like I was, I think it's
me it was good to have somethingelse than just hockey.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
It's just like nice to do something else, focus on
just not hockey all the time.
I think all my other friendsplay hockey too, so like yeah,
it was just like fun to bearound friends and have fun.
Yeah, that's probably it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I love it, hey quick episode here with Linus Carlson
on the Athletes Podcast, episode254 with number 94.
Oh, that's awesome 254,.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
crazy, it's a couple 254, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Hey, thank you for coming on Seriously we'll look
forward to when you are leadingthe points for another.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Just want to say thank you, folks, for tuning in
to the 254th episode of theathletes podcast.
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I get to have these amazingconversations with these
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