Omi Aberg New Chapter!

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Aberg this year starts a new chapter. After 2 VHLM seasons, he has joined the new league VHLE. The off-season was really interesting. He was already drafted by VHLM and VHL team, so you would think that this off-season would be pretty uneventful, but no.

 

This year Aberg had a chance to take a part in another draft - the VHLE draft. I would say, that this draft was the most unprepared and weirdest draft, because players received their inquiries about the players only last night before the draft, so there was not a lot of preparation for drafting players, but even then this draft was really interesting and fun. Omi Aberg got drafted quite late in 55th overall, by Stockholm Vikings. Aberg in the draft night was not reachable, because of the time zone difference. In the islands, there was a night and he woke up to 100 messages asking questions about the draft, so that was probably the biggest reason for dropping down this far, but he was very happy to get drafted by Stockholm and he is going to have fun proving everyone that he should have been drafted higher. Aberg has already taken part in 8 games this VHLE season and well - he has made some impact. In these 8 games, he has scored 2 goals and added 6 assists while having a positive +1 in the plus-minus section.  Aberg is one of the Stockholm leaders and as he said, that he believes the team can fight for a lot of things and the VHLE championship is one of those things.

Omi Aberg with his teammates.

 

Aberg has expressed that winning MVPs or individual awards are not that important to him, because he wants to win a lot of championships and be recognized as the greatest and not in terms of the awards but in the way of winning. He has proved this already in VHLM when he won the championship together with Miami Marauders in his 2nd season, so he already got that to his collection and now he is going to be trying to add the VHLE championship with Stockholm. The task is not going to be easy, but even winning the VHLE championship will be big to his CV, because this is the first season for all VHLE players and not all of them have won in VHLM, so that means a lot of history will be made this season and seasons to be followed by. Right now Stockholm Vikings are in 3rd place in the league, but the season is long so there is going to be a long fight for the VHLE championship, but Vikings are definitely going to be a big part of this fight, having experienced 50 years old with championship experience like Omi Aberg will help this team a lot, and it is showing a lot on the ice already. Teammates have said, that they view Aberg as a fatherly figure, mostly because of his big age, because he could be the father of most of his teammates but he is also a big help on the ice.