Lauderdale Barracks. Not many goaltenders in history have kept clean sheets in NHL All Star games, but that’s exactly what Linus Ullmark did when his and Rasmus Dahlin’s Atlantic team swept home last night.
– I really didn’t expect it, but the boys really wanted to win and fought hard, says the new “champion” to Sportbladet.
Normally, goals rain when the NHL’s biggest names get together to play each other during the annual All-Star Game, but that wasn’t the case when teams from the Atlantic and Midfielders clashed in the 2023 Final at FLA Live outside Fort. Lauderdale last night.
Conversely, legendary Boston guard Linus Ollmark’s season only lasted in the shade of South Florida’s palm trees. During the time he was in the final, he hit six out of six shots and kept a clean sheet.
“Yes, it was clearly meant to be,” he says, removing his shin guard in a noisy dressing room afterwards.
– I really didn’t expect it, but the boys really wanted to win and fought hard for the first fifteen minutes.
Immediately set out for the Bahamas
Linus describes the 7-5 victory in the Finals — with the eleven players on the team sharing $1 million — as the culmination of an overall rewarding and enjoyable weekend.
– We came straight from our last game with the Bruins, so there was a lot of beetroot, but it was so much fun being there and getting to know the guys you were looking up to before, like Crosby and Ovetchkin, just to name two.
Buffalo star young defenseman Rasmus Dahlen was also part of the final team and contributed greatly to the win.
Admittedly, he missed when he tried to take a very sophisticated penalty kick at the end of the game, behind his back, but immediately after that put the puck.
– The match was already decided, so I tried to come up with something fun and played a different version that I had as a kid. He says I probably wouldn’t have dared if it was 3-3.
– It’s a shame it didn’t get in, but it was the nicest thing I ever recorded right after.
Rasmus had, as we said, cancel a trip to the Bahamas and jump in as a replacement for injured teammate Taige Thompson in Fort Lauderdale, but now the so-called “farewell week” awaits the Sabers and yes – the young West has time to go to the Caribbean.
– Yes, I’m going to the Bahamas tomorrow and I’ll stay there for at least three days, he smiles.
Matthew Tkachuk was named the All-Star Player of the Weekend.