Swedish World Junior Championship team cancels camp in Finland due to multiple coronavirus cases

According to Aftonbladet, Expressen, Hockeysverige.se, Hockeynews.se, and, most importantly, the Swedish Ice Hockey Association’s website, the Swedish World Junior Selection Camp team has canceled its camp in Finland, as well as its three games against the Finnish national junior team, due to multiple positive coronavirus cases on the Swedish team.

There’s no word as to who might have the virus, and as the SHL and the Swedish J20 leagues are taking a pause until November 10th, we may never know whether any of the Wings’ prospects attending the camp (Gustav Berglund, Albert Johansson, Albin Grewe, Lucas Raymond and Theodor Niederbach) were affected.

Update: Swedish national team coach Tomas Monten tells HockeyNews.se’s Henrik Sjoberg that the team had a positive test on Monday and another positive test today, and nobody is experiencing symptoms, but the Swedes are using an abundance of caution.

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