SAN JOSE – Shortly after he signed with the San Jose Sharks as a free agent this month, Alexander Wennberg couldn’t help but give the Eklund family a call.
Wennberg, then 18, was Christian Eklund’s teammate with Djurgardens of the Swedish Hockey League a dozen years ago. Now, Wennberg, who turns 30 in September, will play with Christian’s son, William, in San Jose.
“Reached out to (William) as well, kind of having a good laugh about it,” Wennberg said Tuesday of his fellow Stockholm native.