Detroit Red Wings prospect Eddie Genborg is making plenty of noise at the Five Nations junior tournament, and he’s doing it in a big way for Sweden.
The 45th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft has caught fire early, piling up five goals and eight points through three games. He opened with a hat trick in Sweden’s 9-2 win over Switzerland, then followed that up with another goal and two assists in a 4-2 victory over Finland.
That kind of production has not gone unnoticed by his teammates. Gustav Hillström told Swedish website Expressen, “Eddie is awesome,” Hillström said.
“You just have to keep the stick on the ice, and he will find it. You just have to push it in there.”
Genborg, who won gold at last year’s IIHF World Junior Championship, is also weighing in on a different international issue after the IIHF announced over the weekend that Russia would not be invited to the upcoming World Junior or the 2027 World Championship. The possibility of Russian participation had surfaced after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that banning Russia was not the right move.
Speaking to Swedish website Hockey Sverige, Genborg made his stance clear on the situation.
“I think it’s a bad decision to do it and not wait until the invasion or the war is over,” Genborg said. “I think it was a bad decision.
The Detroit pick said he was stunned when the possibility of Russia being included in the World Junior came up.
“I was shocked, of course,” Genborg said. “And I think most people were shocked and didn’t think it would come considering what’s going on in the world.
“I was very shocked.”
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