On Saturday, the JVM squad was reduced from 32 to 26 players.

At the same time, the association announced that another name would be removed from the championship.

On Sunday morning - just hours before Sweden would start its journey to Edmonton - the message came: No JVM for Malmöbacken, Helge Grans.

The 18-year-old from Skåne was the last to be poked.

- It is of course very boring.

It's something you dreamed of playing, but it's the way it is.

There is not much you can do about it other than to give everything you can and I think I have done that.

It's just to clench your fists in your pocket now and move on, says Grans to SVT Sport.

Why did you have to leave?

- It was about different roles and so on.

That was mostly what I heard.

The junior national team has during the week been in Sundsvall on one last camp before JVM.

There, the squad has not only been slimmed down on sporting grounds, but also because of covid-19.

Djurgården's young star William Eklund is one of the players who was forced to resign and the same applies to the national team captain, Thomas Montén.

- It has been a bit strange and new for everyone.

All this with the corona, security and everything.

But otherwise it was a good training week in Sundsvall, says Grans.

"Can go far"

Now there will be no championship for Grans.

But the Swedish team still thinks he has good chances to do well.

- They will have good chances.

Sweden has many skilled players just like all teams in the entire tournament.

I think they can go a long way.

Malmö Redhawks are stuck at the bottom of the SHL.

Now they get a much-needed reinforcement in Helge Grans who comes home - as if he played JVM had missed a dozen SHL matches.

A welcome reinforcement for the Redhawks, where Grans will try to focus now.

- You get to see something positive in the negative, that you get to come home to Malmö and play at home again.

I will try to keep playing there and think ahead.

I think I will get away with it pretty quickly and start focusing on playing at home in Malmö instead.

KLIPP: Federal captain Montén is forced to give up JVM (8 Dec 2020)

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Federal captain Montén is forced to give up JVM Photo: TT