Meet the Team: Sweden's 2025 U18 World Hockey Championship roster

Sweden will have an offensive top-heavy team for this tournament and will be one of the favourites to win gold. They can set up three offensively skilled lines and should have a very strong power play. Ivar Stenberg and Viggo Björck are early top-ranked candidates for the 2026 NHL draft and Anton Frondell, who has had a productive late half of the season in a pro league, is a top-10 candidate for 2025. Behind those stars, there are a bunch of solid productive forwards who have been carrying their J20 team offensively.

The weaker points of the team are at defence, where Sweden traditionally have been strong. Sascha Boumedienne, who has played most of his hockey in the USA, is probably the only Swedish defenceman to be picked in one of the top rounds of the draft. Players like Karl Annborn an