According to IIHF.com’s Henrik Manninen, Mike Sillinger’s status as the most-traded NHL player has nothing on a Swede named Tomas Ablad:
Forget Nicklas Lidström or Börje Salming. When it comes to a record-breaking Swedish defenceman look no further than Tobias Åblad, who chalked up 29 different clubs in his playing career and lived to tell the tale. From Kuopio [Finland] in the north, Jacksonville in the south, Anchorage in the west, Tobias Åblad enjoyed a late swansong at his easternmost club in Slovakian city Nitra, when a foot injury at the age of 36 brought down the curtain on a fascinating playing career where the hockey world was his oyster.
“One reason I’ve wanted to move around in my career was to see something new,” Åblad tells IIHF.com. “There are Swedish hockey players that move abroad who soon realise things aren’t like back home. They don’t go in for it wholeheartedly so things don’t work o...
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