Mikael Renberg om Philadelphia

Mikael Renberg berättar om tiden i NHL och Philadelphia Flyers. Micke lirade i en kedja tillsammans med John LeClair och Eric Lindros, här berättar han hur namnet "Legion of Doom" kom till.

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• mikael
• micke
• renberg
• philadelphia
• flyers
• hockey
• nhl
• legion of doom
• eric lindros
• john leclair

[zerozam73]

@TakingTheFall71 No problem, I met MR a couple of weeks ago and asked him about the reunion. He works as a commentator for SVT(swedens largest tv channel) and the schedule was already set for the junior world championship. He told me that he definitly want to attend the alumni game 2012, but it depends if SVT is willing to make an exception from the contract. Time will tell if he can join his former linemates.

[TakingTheFall71]

@zerozam73 thanks for translating! hopefully he can get things worked out and we can see him in philly soon.

[zerozam73]

Laughs..  ”-you have to cut that out….”

[zerozam73]

and the opponents seemed afraid of us, he started to call us the legion of doom”

Mikael watches the Flyers commercial.

Laughs! ”Oh shit -a lot of bad things I done….” Laughs…

Reporter: ”-Do you have any funny story from your time in the nhl?”

”-I remember one time we had a player that went up to the referee and said something, and the referee instantly gave him a 2 min penalty. I had to ask the referee what did he say? ”-Mikael, he called me a fucking cocksucker…”

[zerozam73]

Video highlights

Reporter: ”-You did play with John Le Clair and Lindros in an line called legion of doom, where did the name come from?”

”-Doomsday legion… my grandmother was religous and thought it was horrific that her grandson would be part of anything with a name like that. It was a player from Montreal that was trades to us from Montreal called Jim Montgomery that thought we always put on such an immense pressure on the opponents in every shift, that we seemed to be everywhere.

[zerozam73]

Eric Lindros actually called me not long ago and when I was attending junior world championship in Buffalo I had an idea of go and visit him in Toronto, but I never found the time. I hope we will meet in the future someday.”

[zerozam73]

Reporter: ”-Who is the best player you played with?”

”-That is Eric Lindros. I’ve played with Mats and Peter, Mats Sundin and Peter Forsberg, and I believe Peter Forsberg is the best player ever from Sweden, I had the chance to play with Mats Sundin three years in Toronto and they are both fantastic players, but when Lindros was at his peak he was the best player I ever played with.

[zerozam73]

Reporter: ”-How close were you to winning in -97?”

”-We weren’t even close, we lost 4-0. We were favourites before the final, we were going to crush Detroit with our physical game, but they had been in the finals two concecutive years before and lost to New Jersey by 4-0, and got experience playing in the finals and we were new to this. I think they were more comfortable in the situation of playing the finals than us and I belive that this experience was tipping the edge for Red Wings.”

[zerozam73]

Intro - Mikael Renberg about Philadelphia.

”-It probably the best years of my career, first year I remember that everthing was so new, playing at big arenas. Back home I was used to 5-6000 people in a sold out arena and here it was 17-18000 every night, some arena even up to even 20.000. I remember that everthing was so new the first year. Then of course I had the privilege to experience playing in a Stanley Cup final, that was the peak of my career.”

[lcc726]

translation plz? lol