Simon Hjälmarsson (FHC)
Hjälmarsson is one of those many talented, but underrated, Swedes who provide skill and experience to teams enabling some of the more famous names around them to shine. The youngest, but most successful of three hockey playing brothers, Simon is now in his third season at Frölunda where he played at Under 20 level. He also played for Sweden every year between 2010/11 and 2014/5 and earlier in his career at the Junior World Championship two years in a row which lead to him being drafted in 2007 by St Louis Blues. However, this has never lead to time in North America and at 29 years old Hjälmarsson is now unlikely to play on the continent. Although he has had success in the KHL with CSKA Moskva it is in the SHL he has excelled the most, first at Linköping where he was part of Pär Alverbrant's incredible 2013/4 when he scored 71 points and teammate Chad Kolarik won the top goal scorer with 30 goals. But now with Frölunda he has picked up so that his average fit his seven seasons in the league is an impressive 0.63 PPG. He probably won't be on the top line with the likes of Lasch and Rakhshani on the team, but he be knocking in goals on a regular basis.
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