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Associated Press
an hour ago
- Sport
- Associated Press
NHL Draft Team By Team Results
1. (10) Roger McQueen, C, Brandon (WHL). 1. (7) James Hagens, C, Boston College. 1. (9) Radim Mrtka, D, Seattle (WHL). 1. (18) Cole Reschny, C, Victoria (WHL). 1. (32) Cullen Potter, C, Arizona State. 1. (3) Anton Frondell, C, Djurgarden (Sweden). 1. (25) Vaclav Nestrasil, RW, Muskegon (USHL). 1. (29) Mason West, C, Edina High School (Minn.). 1. (14) Jackson Smith, D, Tri-City (WHL). 1. (20) Pyotr Andreyanov, G, CSKA Jr. (Russia-Jr.) 1. (13) Carter Bear, LW, Everett (WHL). 1. (31) Henry Brzustewicz, D, London (OHL). 1. (5) Brady Martin, C, Sault Ste. Marie (OHL) 1. (21) Cameron Reid, D, Kitchener (OHL). 1. (26) Ryker Lee, RW, Madison (USHL). No First Round selection 1. (1) Matthew Schaefer, D, Erie (OHL). 1. (16) Victor Eklund, Djurgarden (Sweden-2). 1. 1. (17) Kashawn Aitcheson, D, Barrie (OHL). No First Round selection 1. (23) Logan Hensler, D, Wisconsin. 1. (6) Porter Martone, RW, Brampton (OHL). 1. (12) Jack Nesbitt, C, Windsor (OHL). 1. (11) Benjamin Kindel, C, Calgary (WHL). 1. (22) Bill Zonnon, RW, Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL). 1. (24) William Horcoff, C, Michigan. 1. (2) Michael Misa, C, Saginaw (OHL). 1. (30) Joshua Ravensbergen, G, Prince George (WHL). 1. (19) Justin Carbonneau, RW, Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL). 1. (8) Jake O'Brien, C, Brantford (OHL). No First Round selection No First Round selection 1. (4) Caleb Desnoyers, C, Moncton (QMJHL) 1. (15) Braeden Cootes, C, Seattle (WHL). No First Round selection 1. (27) Lynden Lakovic, LW, Moose Jaw (WHL). 1. (28) Sascha Boumedienne, D, Boston University. 1. (32) Cullen Potter, C, Arizona State. No First Round selection 1. (29) Mason West, C, Edina High School (Minn.). No First Round selection 1. (20) Pyotr Andreyanov, G, CSKA Jr. (Russia-Jr.) No First Round selection No First Round selection No First Round selection No First Round selection No First Round selection 1. (26) Ryker Lee, RW, Madison (USHL). 1. 1. (17) Kashawn Aitcheson, D, Barrie (OHL). 1. (24) William Horcoff, C, Michigan. 1. (30) Joshua Ravensbergen, G, Prince George (WHL).
New York Times
5 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Why the Blackhawks selected Anton Frondell with 2025 NHL Draft's No. 3 pick
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NHL Draft. CHICAGO — Marcus Krüger got his wish. The Chicago Blackhawks drafted Anton Frondell, Krüger's Djurgården teammate in Sweden, with the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft on Friday. What went into that decision? Let's start with Krüger's evaluation of Frondell. 'He's like the whole package,' Krüger, the former longtime Blackhawks role player and two-time Stanley Cup champion, said in March. 'He's big. He can skate. He can handle the puck, all that. But also he's really, like, curious, like he asks stuff, he tries stuff. So, yeah, he's not going to play with me for very long here. Soon you're going to get a taste of him there.' Advertisement Those are exactly the reasons why the Blackhawks drafted Frondell. They couldn't have summed it up any better. Frondell has the size (6 feet 1 inch, 204 pounds), offensive skill, defensive awareness and ceiling the Blackhawks believe will make him a perfect fit in their top six in the future. With all the players the Blackhawks were considering at No. 3, they envisioned how Frondell could work alongside Connor Bedard and/or Frank Nazar. While it's possible Frondell could replace one of them at center, he can also play on the wing. More importantly, he has the offense, especially his shot, to fit with those players and the size and defense that could help them. Frondell's 25 points in HockeyAllsvenskan were the most by an under-18 player since William Nylander produced 27 points during the 2013-14 season. Djurgården coach Robert Kimby was impressed by how Frondell handled himself as an 18-year-old in a league that includes Krüger and other established Swedish players. 'His matureness as a person and as a hockey player, the way he kind of made up his mind to be as good as he possibly can, I think is his biggest strength,' Kimby said. 'But then on the ice, good vision, for us, an outstanding shot, good enough shot so that we put in him as a shooter in power play. Puck strength, and just the same there, even if he's different as a kid, he wants to be in the heat of the moment. If you look at any player, you see the skill with the stick and everything like that, but for me, it's the small things. He just stands out that he really wants to get better every day when he's on the ice. You kind of almost have to pull him back to save energy sometimes.' Frondell is expected to return to Djurgården next season and focus on consistency on next season. It should help his development that Djurgården was promoted to the SHL for the upcoming season, so the competition will improve. Frondell is likely to come to North America after another season in Sweden, but time will tell. Advertisement Krüger will undoubtedly be excited to have him as a teammate for at least another season. That admiration goes both ways, and Frondell has learned plenty from Krüger. 'OK, so he is starting to get older, he has two Stanley Cups, probably good money in the bank — and that doesn't affect his way how he always wants to get better,' Frondell said of Krüger at the scouting combine. 'He's the first guy in the gym. He's the first guy to the rink every day. It doesn't matter how early I am, I can never win over him. And he doesn't just come to the rink. He comes there to get better. It's just cool, a guy like that still wants to get better.' The Blackhawks are hoping for a different type of career for Frondell than Krüger, but the team goal is still the same. The Blackhawks would love for Frondell to be a part of multiple Stanley Cup teams, too.
Auto Blog
11 hours ago
- Automotive
- Auto Blog
Carlex G-Viking Takes High-Dollar Intricacy To Obsessive Levels
Carlex G-Viking Joins The One of One Collection Carlex Design has forged a strong reputation for crafting some of the craziest vehicles on the planet, with levels of luxury and craftsmanship that would typically be reserved only for the rarest hypercars and bespoke coachbuilds. The company has applied its vision to vehicles as diverse as the Ford Ranger, the Jaguar XJ, and the Land Rover Defender, but its recent specialty is the reimagining of the Mercedes-AMG G 63. Carlex now offers a One of One program for the G-wagen, where customers commission a one-off that will never be repeated. Each of these vehicles will have its roof personally engraved by the company's founder, Damian Skotnicki, who emphasizes that each creation 'cannot and should not be rushed.' With the level of detail being put into the latest one-off, called the G-Viking, and its accompaniments, it's clear that the One of One collection is the furthest thing there is from a mass-produced product. A Collision Of Two Worlds The G-Viking is paired with the VO Viking collection, a set of four stunning VO Vapen rifles, each handcrafted in Sweden. The set looks like it could have been fashioned hundreds of years ago, and the G-Class matches it with metal, leather, and stone intricacies. The highlight is the hand-engraved roof of the SUV, but even the beading trims along the side of the vehicle have been given engraved metal bars. Inside, the cargo area houses a custom gun drawer fashioned with copious amounts of leather and metal, ensuring that the off-roader and the firearm collection are never complete without each other. Carlex describes the car as something 'to be cherished and passed down to future generations,' though the cabin is not the sort of place you'd want your toddlers to get too excited. More Than Just Some New Upholstery The entire cabin has been refinished, including the floor mats, roof lining, center console, door cards, dashboard, and anything else you might see or touch inside. But instead of just reupholstering the cabin with a different color or type of leather, Carlex has stripped every component and reimagined how it can be reintegrated with the rest of the G-Viking. Case in point: the steering wheel's airbag cover has been recrafted and the rim has been covered in perforated and plain leather with a metal noon marker. Both the noon-marker and the bottom spoke of the steering wheel are engraved in the same Nordic design as the roof, ensuring that every piece of every component of interior trim is bespoke, from dashboard to door card. Heck, even the door lock pins have been pulled and remade from metal, again with fine engraving. Autoblog Newsletter Autoblog brings you car news; expert reviews and exciting pictures and video. Research and compare vehicles, too. Sign up or sign in with Google Facebook Microsoft Apple By signing up I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . You may unsubscribe from email communication at anytime. The only elements that appear to have escaped Carlex's obsessive reimagination are the seatbelts and rearview mirror housing, but everything else has been fashioned from the finest leather, suede, or metal. Mansory's tuning programs can add six figures to the price of a vehicle, but this Carlex creation takes customization to a whole new level, and we wouldn't be surprised if it costs closer to seven figures. If you have to ask… About the Author Sebastian Cenizo View Profile
BBC News
11 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Nygren: Celtic's new Swedish forward with echoes of Larsson
Talk of signing another Swedish international forward will naturally have Celtic fans reminiscing about the legend that was - and is - Henrik for a pittance from Feyenoord in 1997, he would spend seven trophy-filled seasons with the Glasgow club before going on to perform admirably for Barcelona and Manchester United in his twilight Nygren will be dreaming of making a similar impact at Celtic Park after completing his transfer from Nordsjaelland for a fee reportedly less than £ 23-year-old has spent three and a half years in the Danish Superliga but said in a recent Swedish television interview that he believes it is time for him to move to a bigger club, in front of a packed stadium, and to play in the Champions tick those boxes, at least if they can negotiate a play-off, but what about his profile has attracted the Scottish champions? Nygren came through IFK Goteborg's youth ranks before making his competitive debut as a 16-year-old in came shortly after he agreed professional terms with his local club despite reported interest from Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Manchester was still only 17 when he moved on to Genk in Belgium's top flight for a reported fee of £4.2m - a record sale by had only made 15 appearances by that time, but he had already displayed his scoring prowess with six goals - with four coming in 12 appearances during his second season with the first-team as they finished seventh in Sweden's top would only play seven times for Genk, scoring once, but his European travels had meantime taken him to the Netherlands on scored seven times in 32 appearances as Heerenveen finished 12th in the Eredevisie and reached a national cup second season on loan was not quite as fruitful, failing to find the net in 19 appearances, and he joined Nordsjaelland in January 2022 after having his loan spell terminated - and cutting short his contract with Genk by two Danish venture, alongside current Rangers midfielder Mohamed Diomande, started modestly has they helped his new club avoid Nygren's career was back on track as six goals in 31 games in his first full campaign in the Superliga took Nordsjaelland to the top of the table by the end of the regular season only to be overtaken by Copenhagen after the runners-up at least led to Conference League group stage football the following season and, although they would finish third behind Fenerbahce and Ludogorets Razgrad, it would thrust Nygren into the European Swede grabbed a double in a 7-1 thrashing of the Bulgarians and upstaged that with a hat-trick in a 6-1 drubbing of the Turks - results that no doubt helped draw Nygren to Celtic's Nordsjaelland, now minus Ibrox-bound Diomande, finishing fourth in the Superliga, Nygren would chalk up 12 goals from 31 appearances overall and, although his side were only fifth this past season, he would surpass that personally by finding the net 16 times in 32 leaves Denmark having scored 35 goals in 107 appearances overall for Nordsjaelland over three and a half seasons - the fourth-highest scorer in their history and not a bad return for someone viewed as primarily a right winger. Comparisons with Kuhn and Cerny With Scotland defender Kieran Tierney back at Celtic Park on a free transfer from Arsenal and Ross Doohan returning as back-up goalkeeper from Aberdeen, Nygren becomes Brendan Rodgers' first proper new face of the is no surprise that Celtic's first outgoing fee since the opening of the transfer window has been paid for a player with Nygren's Kyogo Furuhashi sold to Rennes near the end of the January window, fellow Japan forward Daizen Maeda had - at times - been pushed up front from his normal wide left Maeda proved to be a highly effective striker, outshining specialist Adam Idah, it left Celtic short of options on the wings, especially when Jota, who had returned in January from Rennes, was the Portuguese ruled out until the end of the year and right winger Nicolas Kuhn - and, indeed, Maeda - reportedly attracting attention from clubs around Europe, another wide man with a goal threat was badly needed. Not that Nygren should be seen as an out-and-out right winger. Nygren's style is not too disimilar to that of Vaclav Cerny, the Czech international who impressed on loan to Rangers from Wolfsburg last season, often drifting infield to fire for goal with his favoured left IFK sporting director Mats Gren was quoted in a recent interview as saying that he is best as a number first two goals against Fenerbahce, for example, came after picking the ball up centrally and dribbling into the penalty his third against the Turks and his first for Sweden - as he earned his second cap in a 5-1 thumping of Northern Ireland in March - were poacher tap-ins inside the six-yard box and he has since added a curled finish against wonder Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has described Nygren as an "exciting" player who will be a crowd to Kuhn, the German has more dribbles and creates more chances for others, but while their statistics are broadly similar, the Swede is ahead in attempts on goal, goals per game and, given his greater height, aerial duels like Larsson, Nygren will arrive as a cut-price winger, external and leave a legendary goalscorer.
Times
11 hours ago
- Business
- Times
Oresund Bridge is £58 to cross. Is the toll just daylight robbery?
For four centuries the Oresund, a strait between Denmark and Sweden that is the gateway to the Baltic Sea, was a geopolitical chokepoint. The Danish kings would routinely top up their treasury by extorting transit fees from passing ships. In 1658 the Swedes got their own back by crossing the frozen waters and surrounding Copenhagen. Urban legend holds that there is still a law on Denmark's statute books that permits loyal Danes to take up a cudgel and bash any Swede attempting to traverse the ice. The sound last became passable on foot in 1996 but no heads were staved in. Four years after that, though, Sweden and Denmark opened a five-mile, €2.6 billion bridge across the strait, whose 25th birthday falls on Tuesday. The kings and queens of both countries will mark the occasion by travelling in a convoy from the Swedish side to the Danish one, pausing halfway on the island of Peberholm. The bridge has become a symbol of European integration, all but turning Copenhagen and the Swedish port of Malmo on the other side of the water into a single conurbation. 'There is a before and after the bridge,' said Linus Eriksson, the chief executive of the company that runs it. 'Before the bridge, Malmo was a town in crisis. Even Copenhagen had a tough situation. Both cities had a tough situation with poor growth. Now it's a totally different region economically.' The crossing was also made famous from Tijuana to Bulawayo by The Bridge, a noirish crime drama in which a chilly Swedish detective called Saga Noren and her Danish partner Martin Rohde solved a series of grisly trans-strait murders. Now, however, many commuters who bought into the dream of living in one country and working in the other are complaining of what they regard as a lower-level but higher-volume crime: daylight robbery. • How Swedish gangs are exporting young contract killers across Scandinavia Weeks before the anniversary, the basic price for a one-way car journey across the bridge has been jacked up to 510 Danish kroner, or £58. For the largest vans, it is the equivalent of £218. Research by Sydsvenskan, a regional newspaper in southern Sweden, suggests this is by far the most expensive bridge toll on the planet, costing about twice as much as its nearest rivals in Japan and Canada. Tommy Frandsen, a Danish warehouse manager, is the embodiment of the Oresund ideal. He lives in Staffanstorp, a Swedish town 12 miles from the bridge, and commutes across it every weekday to his workplace on the Danish side. Even though he gets a reduced rate, this now costs him nearly £350 a month, or slightly more than 10 per cent of his salary after tax. 'I feel like it's terrible because they raise the prices every year,' Frandsen said. 'The ferry is not an option. The train is not a possibility because I live out in the country and there's no trains from here.' Aravin Chakravarthi, who is based in Malmo but works in Hedehusene, Denmark, said he could not afford to traverse the bridge by car and was forced to take longer rail journeys instead. 'I don't drive by car because of the bridge toll, even on desperate days when I'm juggling tight schedules to drop off or pick up my two kids,' he said. Although the bridge consortium is jointly owned by the Swedish and Danish states, it is financed with sizeable loans, which have to be paid back. The toll is also linked by law to the cost of the privately operated ferry that runs between Helsingor and Helsingborg further up the strait, to protect the commercial viability of the latter. 'We are state-owned, so we would not be able to cut the price by half because then the commercially operated ferry company would complain or even sue us,' said Eriksson. Despite the vehicle toll, the total number of people crossing the Oresund by car, train or ferry hit a record 38 million last year, equivalent to about 105,000 trips a day. A one-way railway journey between central Copenhagen and Malmo typically costs only £13. Locals' sentimental attachment to the bridge remains largely undiminished. 'It has created love relationships. It has created party culture and university research,' said Niels Paarup-Petersen, a Swedish Centre Party MP from Malmo. 'There are such gains that have actually become a reality because of the bridge.'
