I was keeping this one to myself, but Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff is talking about it, so enjoy:
When Herman Liv walks the streets of his hometown of Jönköping, Sweden, he gets the same question.
Is he the son of Stefan Liv?
Like father. Like son.
It’s the same when he dons his goalie gear. Herman Liv is definitely the son of Stefan.
Once a top goaltending prospect in the Detroit Red Wings system. Stefan Liv was one of the players tragically killed when the plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL club crashed on September 7, 2011.
Herman was five at the time of his father’s death.
“I am happy when people say that we are the same,” Herman Liv, 15, told Magnus Nystrom of Swedish website Expressen.se. “And I’ve heard that many times.”
Continued; Nystrom’s article on Liv is really fun to read, if you’re willing to plug it into Google Translate and read the lengthy missive.
Herman’s just an upbeat young man who’s playing in Orebro’s system right now, and he was on the Swedish Under-18 team recently, so he seems to have a real future.
