Erik Karlsson with spouse Melinda.
Photograph: Suvad Mrkonjic/Bildbyrån
Melinda Karlsson.
Photograph: Suvad Mrkonjic/Bildbyrån
Within the hockey WC, Erik Karlsson has been a powerful contributor to Tre Kronor profitable all of the video games.
Photograph: Maxim Thoré/Bildbyrån
Erik Karlsson, 33, is certainly one of Sweden’s greatest stars.
Photograph: Maxim Thoré/Bildbyrån
Erik Karlsson, 33, is certainly one of Sweden’s greatest stars on this 12 months’s hockey World Cup, which takes place within the Czech Republic in the course of the month of Could.
That is the primary time since 2016 that Karlsson represents Sweden in a global competitors context.
Quite a bit has occurred since then.
Within the meantime, Karlsson has change into a father of two and married Melinda Currey, whom he proposed to in autumn 2016.
Melinda accepted after having the ring delivered to her – in a pizza field.
– It is true! Our first date was really at a pizzeria and we like pizza quite a bit. Once I was going to suggest, I drove a quick supply on the road to shock her.
Was it profitable?
– Sure, as a result of she has at all times mentioned that she would know once I would suggest to her. She’s good at figuring issues out, so I needed to pull out my finest playing cards and I nonetheless managed to shock her. She will admit it in the present day, that I succeeded fairly nicely. I am glad it labored out.
Revealing the way it occurred
Karlsson says that the proposal required planning.
Along with an area pizza baker in Ottawa, the place the couple relies, he managed to shock her in a metropolis sq..
– We needed to reduce a gap within the center, so the ring was there. The ring was secured, so no cheese might lay on it. Then we all know a man who owns a pizzeria the place we ate quite a bit and he despatched an individual from the restaurant that Melinda did not acknowledge. He came to visit and mentioned we had ordered pizza, she simply answered “no, no, we have not ordered something, we’re in the course of a sq.”. Then she opened the field after which I ran the entire thing after that.
That very same night the couple had been engaged, and if Erik could say so himself, it could not have gone higher.
– That is as romantic as I will be, I believe, concludes Karlsson with fun.
Erik and Melinda Karlsson have two kids, Harlow and Stellan, collectively.
Within the hockey WC, Erik Karlsson has been a powerful contributor to Tre Kronor profitable all matches within the Czech Republic. He has produced six factors, distributed amongst three targets and three assists.
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