Team Sweden has made its final cuts in advance of the upcoming World Juniors. Hockey Sverige’s Uffe Boden reports (Twitter link) that defenseman Jacob Ragnarsson (NYR) plus forwards Hugo Leufvenius (undrafted in 2018) and Nils Hoglander (draft eligible in 2019) were the final cuts. This means their final 23-man roster is as follows:
Forwards
Emil Bemstrom (CBJ)
Oscar Back (DAL)
Lucas Elvenes (VGK)
Samuel Fagemo (draft eligible in 2019)
David Gustafsson (WPG)
Pontus Holmberg (TOR)
Rickard Hugg (undrafted in 2018)
Filip Hallander (PIT)
Isac Lundestrom (ANA)
Jacob Olofsson (MTL)
Filip Sveningsson (CGY)
Johan Sodergran (LA)
Fabian Zetterlund (NJ)
Defensemen
Adam Boqvist (CHI)
Philip Broberg (draft eligible in 2019)
Erik Brannstrom (VGK)
Adam Ginning (PHI)
Nils Lundkvist (NYR)
Rasmus Sandin (TOR)
Filip Westerlund (ARI)
Goaltenders
Adam Ahman (undrafted in 2018)
Olle Eriksson Ek (ANA)
Samuel Ersson (PHI)
Final rosters must be submitted by December 25th, one day before the tournament gets underway. Six of the ten participating countries still need to trim down their rosters and with pre-tournament games wrapping up today, those cuts will likely be coming shortly.