- NHL.com’s first projected Sweden roster for the 2027 All-Star Game is led by Leo Carlsson and Jesper Wallstedt
- The five-team, 3-on-3 tournament hits UBS Arena on Feb. 5-6, with fan voting opening in December
- Read below for the full nine-skater, two-goalie projection and the names that got left off
Sweden’s All-Star lineup is starting to take shape. NHL.com rolled out its first projected Sweden roster for the 2027 All-Star Game on Saturday, and Anaheim center Leo Carlsson and Minnesota goalie Jesper Wallstedt headline the group.
The picks come from NHL.com writers Amalie Benjamin, Tom Gulitti and Jon Lane. It’s an early guess with eight months of hockey still to play, but it gives a first read on how loaded Sweden’s entry could be.
That projection hit the league’s feed Saturday morning:
Here’s how the event works. Five teams, Canada, Finland, Sweden, the United States and a World squad, play a 3-on-3 round-robin at UBS Arena on Feb. 5-6. Each roster carries nine skaters and two goalies. Fans pick eight players per team once voting opens in December, and the NHL and NHLPA fill the final three spots.
Carlsson anchors a forward group that also runs through Filip Forsberg, Gabriel Landeskog, Adrian Kempe, William Nylander and Mika Zibanejad. On the back end, it’s Rasmus Dahlin, Erik Karlsson and Victor Hedman, three defensemen who can all move the puck and quarterback a power play.
Nylander and Kempe both finished among the league’s top 3-on-3 overtime scorers last season, which counts for plenty in a tournament built entirely around 3-on-3. Nylander has made a habit of ending games in the extra frame. Watch the Toronto forward’s overtime collection:
Between the pipes, Wallstedt and Ottawa’s Linus Ullmark got the early nod. The writers admitted that one is closer than the rest, with Florida’s Jacob Markstrom and Minnesota’s Filip Gustavsson still in the picture.
A couple of big names missed the first cut. Detroit’s Lucas Raymond and New Jersey’s Jesper Bratt were the forwards left off, and both have every chance to play their way in before February.
Sweden already looked stacked when the U.S. roster projection came out earlier this week. The only real headache here is fitting all of it onto one nine-man forward group.
