According to Swedish website expressen.se, Leksands IF is heavily pursuing Teemu Selanne. Selänne had lunch with Leksand majority owner Per Olof Ejendal last Monday and Ejendal expressed to him that Leksand will do anything to get him to play for their team. "I have consulted about the Finnish player (Teemu Selänne). I'm positive that he will consider the offer." said Ejendal. Source
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3 comments:
Not really true. Firstly, Ejendal denied having had lunch with Selänne. Secondly, he only said that he would be interested in helping financially if he was asked by Leksand or he hoped one of the other major sponsors would help out. Thirdly, Ejendal is one of the major sponsors of Leksand, not an owner. There are a lot of rumours going around among Leksand's fan tho about Selänne joining. It's the best silly season ever ;)
Thank you, xter! My Swedish is not good. ;-) I think I translated "sponsor" as "owner". It's nice to have Swedish readers.
I can confirm what xter said and also add that everyone in the Leksand organisation is denying that they're having, or have had, any sort of discussion with Selänne. Selänne and his agent says the same thing.
The whole Selänne deal is nothing but a rumour (unfortunatly).
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