sentences:  By the mid-1990s, he had earned the tag of 'best defender outside the NHL'.Strong performances at the 1994 Winter Olympics and 1995 World Championships, along with a monster 1994–95 season in the Swedish Elite League in which he scored 15 goals and 30 points in just 39 games, helped cement this status.He was finally signed by the Canucks in the summer of 1995 at the age of 27.