Olympic great Swedish goal king is currently preparing for games with Tre Kronor.
The World Cup in Finland is resting around the corner and he is investing in taking a place on the team.
- We can get a good team both with but also without NHL players.
Look at Finland winning championships without the absolute best.
It's about creating a strong team.
It has been a special and dizzying season.
He went from being successful in the Olympics to only being clubless days later.
This after a decision that was obvious to him - to terminate his agreement with CSKA Moscow.
He could no longer represent the loyal club with close ties to the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin.
Wallmark tells how he reasoned.
- A country that started an illegal war.
I'm really safe in this city.
There were so many thoughts going through my head.
The club is also closely associated with the regime.
I felt I did not want to be a part of this.
I had a family back home in Sweden that was sleepless.
No, I just wanted to get out of here.
The contact and the initiative were immediately taken to try to get out of the agreement and the club showed compassion here.
- When I talked to the club, they heard me say that I did not want to stay.
I was no longer the old Lucas.
Everything had changed.
According to information to SVT Sport, he lost in connection with the terminated contract, which also extended over the coming season over SEK 10 million.
- It was an economic slap in the face, says Wallmark and continues:
- But I felt that I did not want to be a part of that.
I can not stand behind what is happening.
CSKA recently won the Gagarin Cup.
Equivalent to the Stanley Cup in the NHL.
The league title after a victory in the playoffs where two Swedish players participated and won.
Klas Dahlbäck and Adam Reideborn chose to stay when Wallmark and Joakim Nordström chose to leave.
- Everyone makes their own choices.
It must stand for them.
How do you see your own future?
- I will never set foot there again anyway.
That much I can say.
Now is the time to put our foot down against the war.
Many in Luleå and many in Umeå are probably hoping for you this year. What can you say to them?
- That it will not be Sweden.
This is where the World Cup awaits.
A World Cup played in Finland.
A country bordering Russia and where NATO membership is a major political security issue just like in Sweden.
Decisions on Finnish NATO membership will be made in May and may create a more uncertain political climate between neighboring countries.
The fact that Finland will now host the championship, however, Wallmark does not see any problems with at present.
- I'm not very keen on the pros and cons of this.
For that reason, I do not want to discuss the issue.
But I do not think it will be a World Cup if the tensions escalate.