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Sunday will be a good day to be Daniel Alfredsson.

Along with watching his fellow Swedes take on the underdog Swiss in the 2018 world hockey championship gold medal game, the former Ottawa Senators’ captain will be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.

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Three other former NHLers — Chris Chelios, Rob Blake and Jere Lehtinen — will be among the group of eight entering the IIHF shrine in Copenhagen.

Alfredsson, who is already in the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, also deserves a spot in the Hockey Hall of Fame after a career in the NHL that covered 18 seasons (17 with the Senators) and included 1,246 games and 1,157 points. He is the second highest scoring Swede to play in the NHL after Mats Sundin, a first ballot hall of famer. He played in one Stanley Cup final and six all-star games, and won the King Clancy Trophy (2012) and Mark Messier Leadership Award (2013).

As for his international hockey accomplishments, Alfredsson represented Sweden in five Olympics, winning a gold in 2006 and a silver in 2014. He also helped Sweden to four medals in world championship play — a silver in 1995 and 2004 and a bronze in 1999 and 2001.

He is currently without a paying job in hockey, although he was named “Volunteer of the Year” for an Ottawa team on which one of his children plays.

It’s strongly believed Alfredsson will return to a position in the NHL at some point in the future. He mentioned that he’d like to be an owner when he was in attendance for the Senators’ two-game series with the Avalanche in Sweden earlier this season, and unless he was joking (I don’t think he was) it would be no surprise to see him as a front man of an ownership group when Eugene Melnyk sells the Senators.

Oh, I mean if Melnyk sells the Senators.