STOCKHOLM -- Unlike Europeans of previous generations, for whom the NHL wasn’t quite such a prominent presence, Adam Wilsby always had North America in his sights. He always wanted to play in the NHL.

That’s why, when he started to garner some interest from teams in Sweden in his second season in the American Hockey League, with the chance to play for the Nashville Predators in the NHL still not a sure thing, he was willing to listen, to consider.

But deep down, he knew he’d always have the what-ifs. What if he had stayed? What if he’d given himself one last shot?

“I had a kind of tough year, especially in the start of the season [that year] I was being scratched in Milwaukee,” Wilsby said. “I started thinking about what’s next and I had some pretty good offers going back to Sweden,

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