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Henrik Lundqvist was searching for the correct words with which to describe Mats Zuccarello, the teammate with whom the goaltender has been closest through his 14-year tenure on Broadway, when instead he told a story that explained it all

“He comes over to our place for dinner and first thing, goes to see our two kids,” said Lundqvist, husband of Therese and father of 6-year-old Charlise and 3-year-old Juli. “He says to them, ‘Have you had your candy today? Do you know that we’re going to have candy for dinner?’

“Well, thanks a lot! Just what we need as parents! There’s no candy! But that’s him … always wanting to stir things up, always having a fun and unique way with people. He’s one of a kind and he’s become a close friend.”

“We hit it off right away. We spoke the same language — he speaks Swedish. It’s almost like I think he is Swedish until he’s around people from Norway. We’re the same in a lot of ways, have the same feelings and view of a lot of things, but there are also differences in the way we think and see things. I’ll keep those to myself.

“But as a teammate, on the ice as a player, his intensity and compete level are very similar to me.”

https://nypost.com/2019/02/21/henrik...th-zuccarello/