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Some of the most amazing Swedish hockey goals ever scored

With the 2012 ice hockey world championships underway in Stockholm, The Local has found a few stunning clips of goals by young Swedish players who may someday find themselves donning a Tre Kronor jersey.

Published: 4 May 2012 14:59 CEST
Some of the most amazing Swedish hockey goals ever scored

The first clip features Oscar Milton, a then 17-year-old centre for Uppsala-based Almtuna, whose scored a goal against Nacka in 2010 by bouncing the puck off the back of the goalie’s head. You have to see it to believe it.

Next up is Jesper Öhrwall from Växjö in central Sweden who was 14-years-old when he put together this 2009 highlight video featuring a number of dazzling moves.

Our third clip actually features a more established Swedish hockey star, Linus Omark of the Edmonton Oilers, who was suited up for Sweden’s national team when he scored this nifty shootout goal in an exhibition game against Switzerland in 2009.

Of course, no collection of Swedish hockey highlights would be complete without 9-year-old (that’s right NINE-year-old) Oscar Wahlström’s absolutely unbelievable goal from a 2009 exhibition in Boston — which has been seen more than 3 million times on YouTube.

While Wahlström has grown up in the US, his Swedish father Joakim played for a decade in the Swedish Elite League. But considering the junior Wahlström’s goal-scoring prowess, he may be the one teaching dad a thing or two about playing the game.

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‘Take On Me’ tops a billion YouTube views: What makes 80s Norwegian hit so enduring?

It’s arguably the biggest success in the history of Norwegian pop, and A-ha’s 1984 pop classic ‘Take On Me’ this week reached a new milestone.

Published: 21 February 2020 15:08 CET
'Take On Me' tops a billion YouTube views: What makes 80s Norwegian hit so enduring?
A-Ha performing in 2015. Photo: AFP

The song combines synthpop with acoustic guitars, keyboards and drums and is indisputably the band’s signature tune and one of the most evocative pop songs of the decade.

That is complemented by a memorable music video which combined live action sequences with black-and-white pencil sketch animated overlays, in what was then an innovative technique called rotoscoping. It won six awards at the 1986 MTV Music Video Awards.

Perhaps the combination of both music and visuals has driven Take On Me into the realms of YouTube royalty. The official video, originally released in 1985, was recently restored and upgraded to 4K resolution to improve visual quality, Warner Music Norway wrote in a press statement.

In any case, A-ha now join a small list of artists with music videos that have tipped the 10-figure mark for total views on the social media website.

While South Korean rapper Psy’s 2012 hit Gangnam Style and Despacito by Luis Fonsi (2017) have famously garnered monstrous numbers of YouTube views, it’s arguably harder for songs which pre-date widespread use of the Internet to rack up those kind of figures.

Take On Me joins two Guns N’ Roses songs (November Rain, Sweet Child o’ Mine), Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit in an elite club of just five songs from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with over a billion views.

Numb by Linkin Park was the first pre-YouTube video from the 2000s to reach a billion views.

“Obviously the video is unique and it has some features that stand up and stand the test of time,” he shared. “It’s hand drawn which makes it what it is,” A-ha guitarist Magne Furuholmen told Billboard last year.

“The song also seems to resonate with people across time. It’s just very fortunate to have such a big song in our catalogue,” Furuholmen said.

“We probably spent a few years talking it down, trying to get people to focus on new stuff we’re doing. At this point, certainly speaking for myself, I’m just surprised and proud that the song has done so well and still finds an audience,” he added.

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