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Film Room: How 2026 Draft Prospect Ivar Stenberg has dominated play in Sweden

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Ivar Stenberg's first months of the season with Frölunda's J20 team have been nothing short of spectacular.

Of course, there were reasons to be excited before the season, too. Stenberg was among the leading scorers at the J18 level last season and already produced at almost a point-per-game pace when he had his cup of coffee with the J20 squad. At August's Hlinka Gretzky Cup, he finished third in tournament scoring with 10 points in five games, standing out as one of the best players among a strong forward group.

Still, I don't think many would have predicted that he’d be leading the entire J20 circuit in both goals and points-per-game after the first two months of play. During September and early October, he had a 10-game stretch where he added at least two points in nine games, being held

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