Predicting Team Sweden’s 2025 World Junior Championship Roster – The Hockey Writers – World Junior Hockey Championship

The runner-ups from last year’s World Junior Championship (WJC) are back and ready to change the narrative this time. After coming up short in a blowout in the 2024 finals against the United States, Sweden looks to continue their impressive history of international play and bring home another medal. Taking home a medal three times in the past five years, Sweden, unfortunately, has yet to win the tournament since 2012 and looks to do so this year with some new faces in their roster.

Here is the projected roster of forwards, defensemen, and goaltenders who could make the final cut for the 2025 tournament. Let’s examine which players may return and who might make their first appearance representing the blue and yellow in Ottawa.

Team Sweden’s Forwards

This is what their forward lineup should look like heading into this tournament, with a lot of well-known prospects returning:

Sweden has plenty of familiar faces returning to help lead the offence up top. The top line is crucial; they have much experience and chemistry together. Otto Stenberg, David Edstrom, and Felix Unger Sorum are highly familiar with each other, and they will likely be relied upon heavily for scoring.  Edstrom is now a part of the Nashville Predators organization after initially being drafted by the Golden Knights before being a large part of the San Jose Sharks Thomas Hertl and later being dealt again this past summer as part of the Yaroslav Askarov trade with the Nashville Predators. In Sweden, he has three goals and nine assists for 12 points for Frolunda HC. He is an effective puck distributor, both in the offensive zone and during breakouts. He supports his defensemen down low, reads passing lanes, and covers space while carefully managing puck battles.

Additionally, it’s important to mention that fellow Nashville prospect Felix Nilsson is having a solid start in the Sweden Hockey League (SHL) with one goal and nine assists for 10 points in 15 games. He will be an essential piece with Anton Wahlberg and Zeb Forsfjall. 2023 second-rounder Wahlberg has had a solid start to his season with the American Hockey League’s Rochester Americans, with four goals…