UAA has received a commitment from recruit Nicolas Erb-Ekholm, a center from Sweden.
Erb-Ekholm, 19, began this season with the NAHL's Janesville Jets, booking 1-5--6 totals and a +3 rating before returning home to play with the under-20 Super Elite League team in his hometown of Malmo. He has one assist in 11 games for that club.
The 6-foot2-, 185-pounder is intriguing simply because he's from Sweden. He made a recruiting visit to Anchorage earlier this season -- Anchorage is roughly the same size city at Malmo.
UAA has a bit of history with Swedes. Nils Backstrom was a reliable defenseman for the Seawolves from 2006-10 and is still playing professionally abroad. Daniel Naslund was a forward with played at UAA from 2009-13. And Thomas Kraft was a blueliner who played at UAA for one season in the mid-90s -- that dude possessed a seriously scary shot. Remember one practice when UAA was working on blocking shots, and, understandably, not many players were jumping into Kraft's shooting lane with conviction.