William Nylander was sharp, Eric Lindros was sharper, but now we’re going to talk about the guy with the highest score at the Hockey World Cup.
It was he who was a firefighter in Södertälje.
His name was Leif, but his name was Anton.
Confusion reigned at Viaplay’s studio during the group stage match against Latvia. William Nylander He had scored his fourth point in the tournament and host Niklas Gehdi claimed that the Swede had achieved the best result in the World Cup since the sixties.
He doesn’t have that.
He averages 1.8 sticks, placing him in the 16th most effective World Cup player of all time behind Czech champion Vladimir Zabrodsky (2.10) and Canadian icon Eric Lindros (2.13).
But Leif Andersson outperformed the entire gang with a score of 4.00. Leffe from SSK, as you know, is the one who grew up in Södertäljepojkarna.
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‘No one came to him’
If we say Anton then, who in the sixties was also a Liberian in football and held a quarter horse faster?
Well, to fill in any knowledge gaps, we called his mates and colleagues from the fire station in Södertälje, where he worked after his sports career and until retirement.
It was the fastest in four counties, says former firefighter Billy Halblum.
He wasn’t technical and didn’t pay well. He lived to skate, says SSK bassist Neil Chellstrom.
– Lev Anton was so explosive that he was a player in the national team in hockey and football, and as a runner. Very good. No one came to him, says his friend Kjell-Arne Blomqvist.
In his World Cup debut against Great Britain in 1962, Leif “Anton” Anderson scored three goals and made one. crushing blow. But it was the opinion of national coach Arne Stromberg (the word captain of the national team has not yet been used) that it did not work out, which was just as great as the harvest itself.
His conclusion will not be overcome
So Anton remained on the bench for the rest of the tournament. From the bleachers in Colorado, he saw Tomba, Jarvis, Roll Stoltz, Sora Bailey, Off-Sterner and the gang taking control. Against Canada, Klimpen Häggroth saved 108 shots before Dubbel-Nisse sent the ball into an abandoned goal cage. “He slips into the goal and he slips into the goal,” Lennart Hyland noted.
One World Cup match, one gold, four points. It’s an outcome that may never be defeated, because if a new player appears, there’s a good chance he’ll have to make a second and third international.
So he remembered the name of Leif “Anton” Anderson and his exploits, because he himself is not there and can say no more.
– I visited Anton two years ago. Then he was ill. Prostate took it, says Kjell Arne Blomqvist.
What were you talking about?
– We got to know each other when I was a kid, so we had many old memories to pass on. We took the picture from the 1962 World Cup and he stood next to him and let me take pictures. Did you know he was mostly sitting in the stands after that?
Yes what did he say about it?
– He laughed at him himself.
