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All-Star
Recognition
By Ted Kulfan, Detroit News,
November 23, 2007
Nicklas Lidstrom
(80,903 votes) and Henrik Zetterberg (58,074) lead Western
Conference defensemen and forwards, respectively, in the first-round
of voting for the 2008 All-Star Game in Atlanta.
Some players shrug off
the notice, and ultimately would rather have that weekend off rather
than play in the exhibition.
Not Zetterberg. He
missed the opportunity to play last year when his herniated disc
began bothering him.
Zetterberg has yet to
play in an All-Star Game, so he's looking forward to being part of
the festivities.
"It would be awesome
to play there," Zetterberg said of the Jan. 27 game. "It's still a
long ways off, but if I'm healthy, I'm going."
As for the votes,
Zetterberg said, "It's always nice to be voted in."
Hank Scores
22 Seconds into Game, Extends Home-Game Points
Streak
By Chris Turner,
Zetterbergfan.com, November 21, 2007
Prior to tonight,
Henrik Zetterberg had recorded at least one point in 31 of the last
33 games dating back to January 28th, 2007. The only two
games he couldn’t muster a point in were surprisingly in St. Louis,
against the Blues, the opponent that Zetterberg has statistically
had the most success against in his NHL career.
After a pointless
showing in a 1-0 loss against the Blues on February 8th,
2007, Hank went on a career-longest point streak of 24 games, in
which he had 22 goals and 21 assists for 43 points. Seven of the
games were last season prior to Henrik suffering a season-ending
lower back injury, in which he missed 19 games. He opened this
season with a franchise record 17 game point scoring streak, scoring
13 goals and adding 14 assists, totaling a league-leading 27 points.
But on November 13th it was the Blues again that
shockingly brought both points streaks to an end. Prior to that
game, Zetterberg had 13 goals and 16 assists for 29 points and was a
(plus/minus) +18 in 23 career games versus the Blues.
Tonight, in Detroit, at the Joe Louis Arena, he resumed his
success against St.
Louis. Hank scored a power-play goal just 22
seconds into the game after Blue’s defenseman Eric Brewer took a
delay-of-game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass. The goal
came six seconds into the power-play when Red Wings forward Tomas
Holmstrom took a pass down low, drawing former Detroit
net-minder Manny Legace to the right side of the net, and sent a
back-handed pass across the crease to Zetterberg as he moved in
towards the open net on the far side. It was the fastest goal from
the start of a game in Zetterberg’s career. Coincidentally, his
previous fastest goal to start a game was 33 seconds into a 5-3 win
over, the St. Louis Blues, of course.
With the quick goal,
his 15th of the season, Henrik extended his home-games
point scoring streak to 26 straight games dating back to December
9th, 2006 against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Zetterberg is second amongst NHL scoring leaders behind Vincent
Lecavalier of the Tampa Bay Lightning, with 31 points (15 goals and
16 assists) in 21 games this season.
In the first week of
NHL All-Star game fan balloting, future Hall-of-Famer Nicklas
Lidstrom and Henrik
Zetterberg of the Detroit
Red Wings are the top two Western Conference vote-getters
with 80,903 and 58,074 votes.
'Hockeytown' has a Branch Office in
Sweden
Karl Samuelson, NHL.com,
Nov 20, 2007
Zetterberg is emerging as one of the best in the League in his own
right. The 27-year-old forward paced the Red Wings with 33 goals
last season and is entering the prime of his
career.
“I just don’t know how
they got that guy in the seventh round,” (ex-Red Wing,
Brendan)Shanahan said. “There’s not a flaw in Zetterberg’s game.
Zetterberg is the centerman version of Steve Larmer. He is the kind
of guy you want on the ice for every single situation. The fact that
he is a centerman and not a winger makes him more valuable. But it’s
amazing how they got him 210th overall.”
“Zetterberg was a
little bit of a late bloomer,” (Fellow Swede, Daniel)Alfredsson
said. “He always had great talent and great vision and now he is
getting stronger. He is put in those situations where he is the
go-to guy and he is getting used to that. Zetterberg is definitely
one of the biggest up-and-coming stars in the
League.”
With Goal and
Assist, Zetterberg Extends Home-Game Point
Streak
By Chris Turner,
Zetterbergfan.com, November 17, 2007
Detroit Red Wings star
forward Henrik Zetterberg scored his 14th goal of the
season and added and assist (15th) in a 5-3 loss to the
Chicago Blackhawks tonight at the Joe Louis Arena.
The points extend
Zetterberg’s home-game point streak to 25 games, dating back to
December 9th, 2006 against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Henrik assisted on
fellow Swede Tomas Holmstrom’s power-play goal that tied the match
at two a piece in the second period.
Zetterberg scored his
goal with just 31 seconds left in the second period, and gave the
Red Wings a 3-2 lead heading into the third. Henrik’s linemate,
Pavel Datsyuk, moved behind Chicago’s net and passed the puck
back out in front to an open Zetterberg at the crease, as
Blackhawk’s goalie Nikolai Khabibulin moved to the opposite side of
the goal, anticipating a wrap-around attempt by Datsyuk. Zetterberg
banged the puck in behind the net-minder. It’s his , more than he
has scored on any other goaltender.
With two-points
tonight, Hank remains second amongst NHL points leaders with 29
in 19 games. Vincent Lecavalier of the Tampa Bay Lightning has
passed Zetterberg for the league lead with 13 goals and 19 assists
for 32 points in 19 games. Pittsburgh Penguins phenom Sidney Crosby
has 28 points.
The Streak Stops in St.
Louis
By Chris Turner,
Zetterbergfan.com, November 13, 2007
Of
the 12 teams Henrik Zetterberg has played against during his 24 game
points streak dating back to last season, surprisingly the St. Louis
Blues, the opponent that Zetterberg has had the most success against
in his NHL career, wasn’t one of them. Shockingly, the last two
games that Zetterberg has gone pointless in, including tonight’s
streak-ending 4-3 loss, have been in St. Louis. Henrik’s career-high
points streak started after a 1-0 loss against the Blues on February
8th, 2007. In 23 other games versus the Blues, Zetterberg
has 13 goals and 16 assists for 29 points and is a (plus/minus) +18.
Zetterberg had
recorded 22 goals and 21 assists for 43 points during the 24 game
point streak. Seven of the games were last season prior to Henrik
suffering a season-ending lower back injury, in which he missed 19
games. He opened this season with a franchise record 17 game point
scoring streak, scoring 13 goals and adding 14 assists, totaling a
league-leading 27 points. The previous Red
Wings record was Norm Ullman’s 14 straight games with at least one
point at the beginning of the 1960-61
campaign.
Zetterberg still has a
24 game point-scoring streak in home games, dating back to December
9th, 2006 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Wings
next game is in Detroit against the Black Hawks on
Saturday the 17th. Hank has one goal and three assists in
three matches versus Chicago this season. The Black
Hawks have won all three games against the Red Wings this year.
Zetterberg
Continues Point Streak
By Chris Turner,
Zetterbergfan.com, November 11, 2007
In a 3-2 loss to the
Black Hawks tonight in Chicago, Detroit Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg had an
assist on a goal by Jiri Hudler to run his franchise record
season-opening points streak to 17 games, and his overall points
streak to 24 games.
Steve Yzerman holds
the Red Wings record with 65 points (29 goals and 36 assists) in 28
straight games from November 1, 1988 to January 4, 1989.
Henrik, the NHL’s
“First Star” of the month in October, still leads the NHL with 27
points (13 goals and 14 assists). Sidney Crosby
of the Pittsburgh Penguins is second with 25 points in 17 games.
Ilya Kovalchuk of the Atlanta Thrashers has a league-leading 14
goals.
Zetterberg now has 267
career points, passing Steve Chiasson for 34th place on the .
Z Keeps it
Going with Late Goal
By Chris Turner,
Zetterbergfan.com, November 9, 2007
I was getting the
feeling that tonight just wasn’t his night. It was beginning to look
as if Henrik Zetterberg’s season-opening point-scoring streak was
going to end at 15 games. But then, with just 1:28 left in tonight’s
game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at the Joe Louis Arena,
Henrik scored a goal against Pascal Leclaire, one of the NHL’s
hottest goalies, to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-1 win.
It wasn’t a close
game, but through the majority of it, Columbus was finding a way to break
the rhythm of the Red Wing’s top line of Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk,
and Tomas Holmstrom.
The scoring line
didn’t appear to have their timing. The passes were there, just not
on the tape. They weren’t crisp. The puck was bouncing.
Despite the Blue
Jackets making it extremely difficult for Detroit’s
scoring line, Zetterberg had several good opportunities to collect a
point throughout the game. One of Henrik’s six shots on goal hit the
post, short side, during a power-play in the second period. Later in
the match, Z sent a spinning backhand pass to Kirk Maltby streaking
in the slot. Maltby’s shot was stopped mid-air by the handle of
Leclaire’s stick.
Then, with the clock
winding down in the final two minutes of the third period, after a
Red Wing’s power-play had just ended, Detroit defenseman Brian Rafalski
sent a weak shot towards the net from the left point. Columbus
defenseman Rostislav Klesla reached with his stick to block the shot
in the slot, but tipped it right to Zetterberg, who was alone in the
right face-off circle. Henrik corralled the loose puck and waited
patiently for his shot while Klesla sprawled across the ice in
attempt to get between Zetterberg and the net. Moving around the
outstretched defender, Hank zipped a quick wrister through the
five-hole of the Blue Jacket’s net-minder as he moved to his right.
The goal, Zetterberg’s
13th of the season, extends his point
scoring streak to 16 games to start the season. Two days ago, Henrik
broke the franchise record of 14 consecutive matches at the start of
the year with at least one point, set by Norm Ullman in 1960. The
NHL record is an untouchable 51 games set by Wayne Gretzky in
1983-84. More recently, Dany Heatley recorded points in 22 seasons
to start the 2005-06 campaign for the Ottawa
Senators.
Zetterberg
has scored at least one point in 23 straight games dating back to
February 11th, 2007 versus the Flames. Steve Yzerman
holds the Red Wings record with 65 points (29 goals and 36 assists)
in 28 straight games from November 1, 1988 to January 4, 1989.
Henrik,
the
NHL’s “First Star” of the month in October, still leads the
NHL with 26 points (13
goals and 13 assists). Sidney
Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins is second with 24 points in 16
games. Ilya Kovalchuk of the Atlanta Thrashers has a league-leading
14 goals.
With
tonight’s goal, Zetterberg now has 122 in his career, with 144
assists for 266 career points, passing Ray Sheppard for
35th place on the .
Wings, Zetterberg Still
Streaking
By Ted Kulfan, The
Detroit News, November 10,
2007
The suspense wasn't
whether the Red Wings would win, but rather, would Henrik Zetterberg
get a point?
Having scored a point
in every one of the Wings' previous 15 games, Zetterberg was held
off the scoresheet Friday until scoring at 18:32 of the third period
in the Wings' 4-1 victory over Columbus.
"He kept everyone in
suspense," Nicklas Lidstrom said.
The Wings had just
finished a power play when Zetterberg got the puck near the side of
the net, patiently waited for a Columbus defender to slide out of
position, then beat goalie Pascal Leclaire through the legs.
"It was kind of late
this time," Zetterberg said. "We won the game, and that's the
important thing."
The goal was
Zetterberg's 13th of the season and league-leading 26th point. He
has a point in all 16 games to start this season. Dating to last
season, Zetterberg has gotten a point in 23 consecutive games.
"Of course, I didn't
expect to start the season like this, but when you play with good
players good things can happen," Zetterberg said. "I'm just going to
try to keep it going."
"We're playing with
confidence," Zetterberg said. "Defensively we're not allowing a lot
of shots or chances. That gives you confidence."
Meet Mr.
Everything
By Bill Clement,
MSNBC.com, November 9, 2007
This is the best
Henrik Zetterberg has played in his five years in the NHL. The top
all-purpose forward in the league is having a huge season.
Zetterberg's a solid scorer, but he also does so many other things
for Detroit. He's one of the team's
best defensive forwards, excels on face offs, kills penalties, and
if needed he can play the point on the power play. The Swedish star
is one of the most impressive players of the last several decades in
the NHL.
Zetterberg didn't come
into the league hailed as anything near the special player he has
become. He was drafted by Detroit in the 7th round (210th
overall) in 1999. But he's come a long way. Very often players take
on the persona of the roll they are cast in. Zetterberg's been cast
in the role of Mr. Everything and so he's performing like Mr.
Everything. The key is keeping him healthy. Back spasms were an
issue with him in the second half of last season, and they caused
him to miss the last 19 games leading up to the playoffs.
Carhartt
Honors Hank as 'Hardest Working Player'
By Doug Murphy, Detroit Red
Wings, November 9th, 2007
As the NHL season
skates along Red Wing superstar Henrik Zetterberg continues to compile
awards. His latest award came when he was named the ‘Hardest
Working’ Player of the Month for October. He received his award from
Carhartt sponsorship and event specialist Sanja Zarubica during a
pre-game ceremony on November 9.
During the 2007-08
regular-season, Carhartt will present the monthly award to the
hardest working Red Wings’ player, along with Carhartt merchandise.
The award will recognize the player for his hard work and individual
dedication to commitment necessary to excel on the ice.
The Red
Wings’ coaching staff and front office personnel will select
recipients.
Through the month of October, Zetterberg led the
league in total points with 22 (10 goals, 12 assists), helping the
Wings to an impressive 10-2-1 record. He recorded seven
multiple-point games, including three-point efforts against
Chicago (Oct. 6) and Los Angeles
(Oct. 14).
Zetterberg, 27, continues to dominate into November.
He set a new mark for points scored in consecutive games to start
the season, surpassing hall of famer Norm Ullman, who held the
previous mark of 14 straight games to start the 1960-61 campaign.
Zetterberg’s point streak currently stands at 17 games. He has
scored at least a point in 24 straight games dating to last season.
He was last held scoreless on February 8, 2007 at St.
Louis.
Carhartt and the Red Wings would
like to recognize Henrik Zetterberg for his outstanding
work and success during the month of October and wish him continued
success throughout the remainder of the 2007-08 season.
Zetterberg Makes Red Wings
History
By Bob Duff, Windsor Star,
November 08, 2007
Enjoying a two-man
advantage, Detroit Red Wings centre Henrik Zetterberg worked the
puck down low, feeding a pass to linemate Tomas Holmstrom, parked in
his usual office, the slot.
Holmstrom's one-timer
clanged off the crossbar, banked off the stick of Nashville
Predators goalie Chris Mason, then the knee of Detroit's Jiri
Hudler and into the net.
That pool cue shot of
a goal earned Zetterberg a place in the record
book.
No other Red Wing has
ever recorded a point in the first 15 games of the National Hockey
League season.
Not Gordie Howe. Not
Steve Yzerman. Not Marcel Dionne. Not Sergei Fedorov. Not even Norm
Ullman, who'd set the previous mark of 14 games back in
1960-61.
In the grand scheme of
things - and make no mistake about it, the Red Wings are a
big-picture kind of club - might Zetterberg end a Detroit
drought that has endured through the terms of nine American
presidents?
Could Zetterberg
become the first Red Wing to win the Art Ross Trophy as NHL scoring
champion since Howe in 1962-63?
The Wings won for the
eighth consecutive game, downing Nashville 3-2 in a shootout
Wednesday at Joe Louis Arena and Zetterberg's assist maintained his
place atop the NHL scoring leaders with 12-13-25
totals.
"It's been going good,
but I think the whole team is playing good," Zetterberg said,
shrugging off such grandiose dreams that he might need to rent a tux
for the NHL awards show. "When you play with good players, it's easy
to be good yourself.
"I play a lot of
minutes, get a lot of opportunity on the power play and it's been
clicking."
It's a far cry from a
season ago, when Zetterberg recorded just three points through his
first 11 games. This time around, Wings coach Mike Babcock quickly
put his two aces, Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk, together on the top
line with Holmstrom.
"People ask me all the
time, 'Is Hank going to lead the league in scoring?" Babcock said.
"If the team wins and he does that, great, but that (statistics)
doesn't seem to be a big goal. Winning seems to be the biggest
goal."
For that reason, the
belief is that Zetterberg simply won't be up with the front-runners
at the finish line, but Zetterberg's most daunting foe may not be
history, but rather himself. He's been the victim of some serious
injuries in the past, losing 19 games to an inflamed disc in his
back last season and 21 contests to a (broken leg) in
2003-04.
If Zetterberg can stay
healthy, though, he could shoot his way to a rare feat for a
Detroit
player.
Zetterberg
Breaks Franchise Record
By Chris Turner, Zetterbergfan.com, November 7,
2007
After
getting an assist on Jiri Hudler’s power-play goal in the second
period of tonight’s 3-2 Shoot-out win over the Nashville Predators,
Henrik Zetterberg has
collected at least one point in 15 consecutive games to open the
2007-08 season. The streak breaks a Detroit Red Wings record set by
Norm Ullman, who had a 14 game point scoring streak to start the
1960-61 season.
The
NHL record is an untouchable 51 games set by Wayne Gretzky in
1983-84. More recently, Dany Heatley recorded points in 22 seasons
to start the 2005-06 campaign for the Ottawa Senators. Zetterberg
has tied Jaromir Jagr’s points in 15 consecutive games at the start
of the year, a feat Jagr achieved in 1999-00.
Zetterberg
has scored at least one point in 22 straight games dating back to
February 11th, 2007 versus the Flames. Steve Yzerman
holds the Red Wings record with 65 points (29 goals and 36 assists)
in 28 straight games from November 1, 1988 to January 4, 1989.
Henrik,
the
NHL’s “First Star” of the month in October, still
leads the NHL with 25 points (12
goals and 13 assists). He is
closely trailed by Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby who has
23 points in 15 games. Without a regulation goal tonight, Zetterberg
now trails Ilya Kovalchuk of the Atlanta Thrashers by one goal for
the league lead. Kovalchuk has 13. Henrik had a shoot-out goal
against Predator’s goalie Chris Mason, giving the Red Wings the
victory at the Joe Louis Arena.
Red Wings Rolling Behind
Zetterberg
By Dan Di Sciullo, The
Sports Network, November 2, 2007
Meet Henrik
Zetterberg, a 27-year-old Swede who is tearing up the scoresheet
this season and has been the biggest part of Detroit's
stellar start to the 2007-08 season.
Through his team's
first 14 games of the season, Zetterberg has been downright
prolific, leading the league in both goals (12) and points (24).
Zetterberg has recorded at least a point in every game this season
to tie a Red Wings record for longest point streak to begin a
campaign, along with Norm Ulman, who achieved the same feat in the
1960-61 season.
For his efforts,
Zetterberg was named the NHL's No. 1 star for the month of October.
Zetterberg's lightning-quick start to the season has some hockey
pundits proclaiming that "Zata" (the letter Z in Swedish) is now the
best player in the National Hockey League.
The rate at which
Zetterberg's points are coming this season is astounding, but it's
not like the forward was an unknown entity heading into the
campaign.
Zetterberg's best
season in the NHL came in the first year after the lockout, when he
notched 85 points (39 goals, 46 assists) while playing in 77 games.
However, last year was a bit of a disappointment, as he notched 68
points (33g, 35a) and missed a big chunk of the season due to back
spasms. Yet, Zetterberg was still given the Viking Award, as the top
Swede playing in North America.
If there is any knock
on Zetterberg, it is that he is not big enough to endure the
physical side of hockey on a game-to-game basis. At 5-11, 176
pounds, he relies more on his playmaking ability and unbelievable
hockey sense to dominate the game.
Zetterberg's lack of
size is likely one of the reasons the Red Wings were able to steal
the native of Njurunda, Sweden in the seventh
round of the 1999 draft.
After Detroit picked
Zetterberg, it became increasingly obvious what kind of talent the
franchise had on its hands. He played two years in the Swedish Elite
League and was named the Rookie of the Year in 2000-01, and the
league's Most Valuable Player for the 2001-02 campaign.
In 2002-03 Zetterberg
headed to the NHL and had very little difficulty adapting to the
North American game. Zetterberg's rookie year in the NHL was an
unqualified success, as he became one of the finalists for the
Calder Trophy by notching 22 goals and 22 assists in 79 games. He
ultimately lost out on the Calder to St. Louis defenseman Barret
Jackman, but Zetterberg was named Sporting News Rookie of the Year,
an award voted on by NHL players.
Still, for some
reason, Zetterberg had been able to fly under the radar outside of
Detroit up until this year's
early-season scoring barrage. Perhaps the presence of NHL legends
like Nicklas Lidstrom, Dominik Hasek and Chris Chelios in Hockeytown
have allowed the young Swede to avoid the hype associated with the
Sidney Crosbys and Alex Ovechkins of the NHL world.
Speaking of Crosby and
Ovechkin, it is difficult to compare Zetterberg with those players
at the moment considering that the overall situation in Detroit is
much healthier. Crosby and Ovechkin are called upon to do just about
everything for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals,
respectively, while Zetterberg plays on one of the most-balanced
teams in the NHL.
The strength of
Detroit is the team's amazing
defensive corps which features Lidstrom, who is Zetterberg's
countryman and teammate on Sweden's Gold Medal-
winning team at the 2006 Torino Olympics.
However, Zetterberg
has led the team in the early stages of this season and could
redefine the Red Wings in his own image. With the talented Swede at
the helm, Detroit would no longer be a team
of aging veterans who fail to inspire confidence at playoff time,
but instead, a dangerous mix of experience and offensive potency.
Zetterberg is on his
way to a breakout season for one of the league's most marketable
franchises. He has a chance to be the next great Swedish player now
that Peter Forsberg's foot problems have left his playing status in
limbo.
Fans in Detroit have
known for the past few years the kind of talent Zetterberg has at
his disposal, and the time has now come for hockey fans everywhere
to appreciate "Zata".
Zetterberg
Ties Club Record with Points in 14 Straight Games to Start the
Season
By Chris Turner,
Zetterbergfan.com, November 1, 2007
He just keeps it going
game after game.
Henrik Zetterberg did
it again tonight, scoring the game-winning goal and adding another
in the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames
tonight. With the two
goals, Zetterberg now leads the
NHL with 12 goals and has 12 assists for a league-leading
24 points in 14 straight games to start the 2007-08 season. The
streak of at least one point in each game so far this season (14)
ties a Detroit Red Wings franchise record set by Norm Ullman in
1960. Additionally,
Zetterberg has scored at least one point in 21 straight games dating
back to February 11th, 2007 versus the Flames.
Henrik’s first goal of
the match, scored at 10:44 of the first period, gave the Wings a 2-1
lead and ended up being the game-winner, remarkably his first of the
year. Pavel Datsyuk battled for the puck along the left boards and
chipped a back-handed pass that bounced to Zetterberg who was open
in the left face-off circle. Zetterberg one-timed the bouncing puck
past Flames goalie Mikka Kiprusoff who was screened by Detroit forward
Tomas Holmstrom.
Zetterberg scored his
second goal of the game on the power-play, knocking in a rebound of
a shot by Datsyuk that bounced off of Kiprusoff, with Holmstrom in
front of the crease once again. The tally made it a 4-1 game.
Henrik’s two-goal
night comes on the day he was named the NHL’s Player of the Month for the month of
October. He continues to be on a tear in which he has scored 43
goals and registered 89 points in the last 65 games since November
2006. He is on pace for 70 goals and 70 assists this season.
He Shoots, He
Scores
By Ted Kulfan, Detroit News,
November 1, 2007
(Henrik) Zetterberg is
leading the league in shots with 71. Ranger and former Wing Brendan
Shanahan is next with 63.
"You have to shoot to
score," said Zetterberg, who leads the league with 22 points.
Calgary's Jarome Iginla is next
with 19. "You should take the shot, especially when Homer (Tomas
Holmstrom ) is in front of the net."
This is a new
Zetterberg, because early in his career, coaches such as Dave Lewis
and then Babcock, were pleading for Zetterberg to shoot more. But
Zetterberg has a reason for his passion to pass early in his career.
"I had Brett Hull as a
linemate, and he had a 1,000 times better shot than me," Zetterberg
said. "And he was always open."
Expressen:
Zetterberg will land $47 million
contract
Posted by
George James
Malik, Mlive.com, November 01,
2007
Sweden's media outlets are
following Detroit Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg's tremendous
start very closely, and Expressen's Mattias Eriksson suggests that
Zetterberg's in line for a Heatley-esque $7.8 million contract from
the Red Wings:
November 1, Expressen
(roughly translated): Stays in Detroit - for 300 million SEK [$47
million USD]
He is the world's
hotest hockey player presently. Now, Henrik Zetterberg wants to
[sign] one [more] contract with Detroit - that can give him over
[$47 million U.S. Dollars].
"I [would] stay gladly
in Detroit [for entire career," says
"Zäta."
Henrik Zetterberg
leads NHL's point gang. But ensured the salary [of] "Zäta" [is]
considerably farther down [the list], earning just over [$2.67
million] in yearly salary, a contract that also stretches [itself]
over next season.
[Next] summer
Zetterbergs agent, Marc Levine, may begin negotiate about a new
contract - and the Super-Swede has clearly for itself what[ever] he
wants to [get]:
"It is to stay in same
club for my entire career, but I would do it gladly in Detroit," says
Zetterberg.
"Zäta's" radar-partner
in Detroit, Pavel Datsuk, typed last
summer one six-year contract that [gives him] a yearly salary of $43
million USD--and the total is worth over 300 million Swedish
Kronor.
Better
contract
Zetterberg's success
and status [suggest] that he will [get a] still better contract than
Datsjuk.
"Certainly, it's
positive that it goes good now, and continues it so there will be a
[wage increase] for me. I have huge difficulties to [imagine] that I
[would] go to someone else's club only in order to [earn a] few some
million [more], says Zetterberg.
Agent Marc Levine:
Henrik and I have not spoken a lot about the future, but [Henrik]
says he that he wants to stay in Detroit [for his] entire career, so
I have a job to do.[/quote]
Zetterberg, Leclaire and Flames forward Iginla named
NHL three stars of month
NHL.com, Nov 1,
2007
Detroit forward Henrik Zetterberg,
Columbus goaltender Pascal Leclaire and
Calgary forward Jarome Iginla were named
the NHL's three stars of the month Thursday.
Zetterberg took the
first star after recording points in each of the Red Wings' 13 games
in October. He led the league in scoring with 22 points (10-12) and
helped Detroit finish the month on top of
the league's overall standings with 21 points.
Zetterberg had seven
multiple-point games, including three-point efforts against
Chicago on Oct. 6 and Los Angeles on
Oct. 14.
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