Red Wings prospect Joe Veleno wrote an entry in his “Taking Flight–From the ‘Q’ to the ‘D'” blog on DetroitRedWings.com, and in today’s entry, he discusses playing for the SHL’s Malmo Redhawks:
The way I’m looking at it, this is an exciting time in my career. This could be, for all I know, the last time I come over to Europe. Honestly, it’s a great experience talking to some former players who’ve had this experience coming to Europe, especially Sweden, such an amazing country where the hockey’s really good and the culture and all that stuff is quite interesting to get to know. So I looked at it as a positive step forward. I’m enjoying it each day that I’m here, I’m embracing all the experiences I can get with the players, trying out some different restaurants or different food. Although there’s not a significant difference in food in Sweden, it’s more or less quite the same. But the whole experience, just everything, the lifestyle and all that stuff is pretty cool.
Honestly, nothing’s really that different over here. Everything’s quite similar to how it is in North America. But I guess just a lifestyle that the people have over here, it’s more European culture so sometimes you see just the way people dress, going out for coffee a lot, there’s a lot of cafes here on the street and a lot of people like to sit outside and enjoy their coffee. It’s not that much different than North America from what I have seen so far. On top of that, I haven’t gone out too much because of COVID-19.
Sounds like he will get a lot of Interview requests, enjoys talking, LOL
He will be better off in Sweden considering he is still learning. Sweden is a good hockey country.