Leafs prospect Sandin’s ‘outstanding’ season set to continue with Sweden at WJHC
TORONTO — Rasmus Sandin often heads over to Timothy Liljegren’s place after the Toronto Marlies wrap up practice.
The Swedish defencemen usually just hang out, cook food and sometimes talk about life playing hockey as teenagers more than 6,000 kilometres from home.
“He’s older, so he’s got to take care of me,” Sandin, 373 days younger than Liljegren, said with a cheeky grin in a recent interview. “We spend a lot time together.”
The plan was for Sandin, 18, and Liljegren, 19, to spend even more time together at the world junior hockey championship, but it’s looking increasingly like Sweden will have to settle for just one of the Maple Leafs’ first-round picks at the upcoming tournament in Vancouver and Victoria.