By Jason Mackey
January 10, 2019
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — One of Carl Hagelin’s best memories of Pittsburgh does not involve hockey.
Directly, anyway.
On Nov. 14, the day he was traded from Pittsburgh to the Los Angeles Kings, Hagelin said he and his best friend on the team, Patric Hornqvist, got their families together at Hornqvist’s house — steps from where Hagelin lived — that night, and they reminisced about the many memories the two Swedes made during their time together with the Penguins.
“That was nice,” Hagelin told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after the Kings’ morning skate Thursday at Toyota Sports Complex. “Nothing special. Just at his house, hanging out. Reliving memories.”
And there were certainly plenty to relive, most notably a pair of Stanley Cups.
There’s also a good chance they talked about the morning skate before Game 6 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, just the two of them and Matt Cullen.
“Well,” Cullen said that morning, “I know the Swedes are ready.”
That turned out to be oddly prophetic, too, as Hornqvist and Hagelin scored the only two goals of the Penguins’ Cup-clinching victory that night.
While Hagelin said it would be too tough to narrow down the list of good times, there was plenty for him and Hornqvist to talk about.
“There’s so many things that come with the Stanley Cup,” Hagelin said. “Both of those years were very different years. One when I just got traded there, and we went on a run … it was kind of unstoppable. The other year was more of us finding a way throughout the whole playoffs to win games. They’re both just as satisfying. Just different.
“Then obviously us having our first-born child in Pittsburgh, that was a pretty cool experience. Overall, those playoff games throughout the years, they’re so much fun. The fans are great. Everything around the team, everyone cares so much.”
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