Wild Bill in the top

The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world.

Ice hockey is one of the two national sports of Sweden. This season we have more than 50 players in NHL. Over the years we have had NHL stars like; Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin, Niklas Lidström, Börje Salming, Erik Karlsson, the Sedin brothers, Stefan Persson, Kent Nilsson and Mats Näslund

This season NHL got a new team, Vegas Golden Knights. The club has surprised everybody and is now one the leading teams of the league, soon going into playoffs. The superstar of Vegas is Swedish William ‘Wild Bill’ Karlsson.

Two nights after finally looking like an expansion team, the Vegas Golden Knights got back to what’s made them successful early in their first season – outworking opponents. And beaing Vancouver away, 5-4.

William Karlsson is now only three goals behind Ovechkin in the top scorers league after scoring his 43rd in a 5-4 shootout win at the Vancouver Canucks.