The IIHF’s website asked Andrew Podnieks to compile an article consisting of “stats for an off-day,” and he offered this regarding Red Wings prospect and Team Sweden captain Axel Sandin Pellikka:
Swedish defender and top Detroit prospect Axel Sandin Pellikka is from a small town in Sweden called Gallivare. It is 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle and is situated at a latitude of 67 degrees. To put that into perspective, Iqaluit in Canada’s Far North is less than 64 degrees! Anyone who says Sandin Pellikka has ice in his veins is perhaps more correct than he knows.
For what it’s worth, here’s tomorrow’s Quarterfinal schedule:
Germany vs. Kazakhstan 11 AM EST;
Sweden vs. Latvia, 12 PM EST on the NHL Network and TSN
USA vs. Switzerland 2:30 PM on the NHL Network and TSN
Finland vs. Slovakia 5 PM on the NHL Network and TSN
Czechia vs. Canada 7:30 PM on the NHL Network and TSN1
