re pens info needed kevin l stamber writes if there s anyone who can help me on these items please let me know markus naslund i saw that modo lost early in the national tournament and that he was playing for the national team at the world championships any stats available any word on how he s playing when is he expected to join the club markus had a good season in modo in the swedish elite league scoring goals assists points and pim in games as daryl points out markus won t be joining the pens for this year s playoffs since the world championships starts april th but there is a good chance that markus will join the pens before next season modo though naturally wants to keep their superstars forsberg and naslund so the latest news on this is that modo is looking for personal sponsors for forsberg and naslund in order to match the kind of money they would receive in nhl daryl turner writes by the club i would assume you mean the pens don t hold your breath you aren t going to see naslund this year the world championship tournament doesn t start until april so nhl teams won t see any influx of europeans and no team playing in the wc will see a sudden influx of eliminated nhlers the earliest a player on a playoff bound team could join a wc team is the last game of the round robin and i doubt any coach is going to want to play short one player for that long actually swedish coach curt lundmark is thinking about leaving two spots open for additions from eliminated nhlers it is mats sundin and calle johansson that curt hopes can join the team although in a late stage of the tournament technically i seem to recall that you can leave spots open until hrs before the wc final staffan staffan axelsson etxonss ufsa ericsson se r s h contact for swedish hockey
