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You’ve read the headline: “Young player rips it up in tough Swedish men’s league.”

The story is about a hotly touted prospect who puts up a point-per-game pace as a teenager in a very tough men’s league.

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Yes, that’s Elias Pettersson. And it’s also Markus Naslund.

There weren’t many players getting as much buzz as Markus Naslund was in the summer of 1993. His name was spoken often in the same breath as Peter Forsberg.

The two young Swedes were going to take over the hockey world.

Drafted in the first round of the 1991 draft by the Penguins, Naslund stayed home in Sweden and dominated the Swedish Elitserien for the next two seasons as a teenager.

After a long summer that involved a complicated contract dispute, the young Naslund showed up in Pittsburgh in the fall of 1993, ready to show what he could do.

Of course, it didn’t go to plan.

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A season removed from back-to-back Stanley Cups, the team Naslund joined in Pittsburgh was one stocked with future hall-of-famers. Lemieux. Francis. Jagr. Mullen. Trottier. Murphy.