GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- When Team Sweden captain Henrik Zetterberg suffered a recent knee injury and needed to back out of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, there were plenty of qualified candidates to replace the veteran forward.
On Monday, prior to the team's first training camp practice at Scandinavium, Sweden announced Henrik Sedin will wear the 'C' for the upcoming best-on-best international tournament. Teammates Daniel Sedin and Erik Karlsson will serve as assistant captains.
"It's an honor for sure," said Henrik Sedin. "You grow up watching a lot of the national teams, and the guys who were captains back then, the star players, those are the guys you looked up to, so it's an honor.