Red Wings forward Oskar Sundqvist spoke with 101 ESPN in St. Louis this morning, appearing on the “Karraker and Smallmon Show” with Randy Karraker and Michelle Smallmon.
Sundqvist is at home in Sweden, but he spoke about both his ties to St. Louis, where he will keep a home and split his summers between St. Louis and Sweden, and his ties to Detroit, whose Blues collective (see: Jake Walman, David Perron, Ville Husso, Robby Fabbri and Sundqvist) is helping him adjust to being a Red Wing.
Sundqvist admitted that he had knee surgery to “clean up” his knee at the end of the season, stating that he didn’t have any power to push off in his stride, and he suggested that he’s “getting toward 100%” again, which is good to hear.
Here’s the 101 ESPN summary of the interview…
Sunny joins Randy & Michelle to talk about his summer trip to Sweden (from where he’s calling live), the one food item he’s been craving on his trip, why he considers St. Louis his second home after Sweden, his thoughts during his trade to Detroit this past season, talking to Husso & Perron and reaching out the same way Fabbri reached out to him and & Walman, Oskar getting close to 100% after another knee procedure, ranking the fight levels when it comes to Yzerman, Chief & Army, his reaction to being called the Blues 2019 “engine”, what it’s like to play against Matthew Tkachuk (hint: not fun!) and getting the chance to meet and get to know his childhood hockey hero, Peter Forsberg.
And here’s the interview via my SoundCloud as it’s not embeddable:
