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Carl Hagelin predicts NHL players will return in June, jokes about President Trump’s disinfectant comments

Carl Hagelin did an interview with Swedish journalist Patrick Ekwall that was published Saturday. During the nearly 11-minute chat, the Capitals third-line forward talked about how his life has been during quarantine and revealed that he returned to his native Sweden in April, nearly a month after the NHL suspended the 2019-20 season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hagelin, who recently began skating again, believes players will return for NHL camps in June, though he admitted he was an optimistic person.

“I think the league can start again,” Hagelin said. “I don’t know if we’ll go directly to the playoffs or if we’ll be able to have a few games first, but my thought is that in some way, the team will get back together at the beginning of June. And then maybe games will start again in July, August, September. That’s my dream, but I know just as little as everybody else.”

Ekwall also asked Hagelin to compare and contrast what it’s been like in Sweden and America. The two also mocked President Trump who said in April during a press conference that an “injection inside” the body with a disinfectant could help fight the coronavirus.

“You haven’t tried disinfectant?” Patrick Ekwall asked.

“Not yet, maybe in a few days!” Hagelin responded.

The interview is translated by reader Wendy Shoemaker and proofed and edited by RMNB’s Magnus Cadelin.

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