"He's going to be a star" – How Viggo Björck leverages his IQ to dominate

FRISCO, Texas – Viggo Björck's game is all about combinations. 

Stacking skills and finding ideal combinations to build a complex puzzle from a mixture of pieces. 

It's been on display this week at the Under-18 IIHF Word Championship here in Texas. It started with his first showing against Switzerland where Björck made a smart play in the neutral zone to intercept a pass, pushed back the other way and spun off of a Swiss player to feather a no-look backhand pass for a high-danger Swedish chance. 

It's those type of plays that have teams salivating at the potential of selecting him very early in 2026. An undersized player who's mastered leveraging every inch of ice to his advantage.

Björck may not be the largest or most physically dominant player on the ice, yet he consistently stands out as on