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22.11.2023 - 01:03 / forbes.com / Paul Maccartney
He wore a goalie mask on the ice but outside the rink you were just as likely to find Henrik Lundqvist on the pages of GQ as Sports Illustrated. Born in Sweden, he moved to New York in 2005 and spent his entire 15-year NHL career as a goaltender for the New York Rangers. He won the Vezina Trophy in 2012 and was just inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Now retired, the well-dressed Lundqvist is still a proud New Yorker and involved in numerous projects, including being a part owner of the restaurant Tiny's & The Bar Upstairs in Tribeca, launching a new fragrance ‘Next Chapter’ and hosting the ‘ Club 30 ’ podcast. Over Moscow Mules at Tiny’s, made with his favorite Ole Smoky Moonshine , I spoke with Lundqvist about his first drink, his love of New York and his talk with Paul McCartney about the difference between hockey and music fans.
What was your first drink?
Probably my first mixed drink was called P2. I think it was sweet vodka with Sprite.
Growing up in Sweden did your parents have wine at the dinner?
My parents had a glass of wine on Fridays and Saturdays. Not Monday through Thursday. They were always driving my brother and I to hockey practice or my sister to tennis practice.
As an athlete did you have to behave a little better than your friends on the weekends?
I think you reach a point, especially when you get to an age where there’s partying and drinking as a teenager, that you have to make a lot of decisions. What are you trying to accomplish? Having fun or are you trying to improve as a player A lot of times you play games or weekends. So deciding when and when not to have a drink is a decision that was easy to make throughout my career even as a young adult.
Your twin brother was also a hockey player. Were both of you similarly focussed?
We were pretty similar in so many things. The way we acted and our decision making. I was a little bit more of a daredevil.
After you graduated from P2 did you enjoy cocktails or wines?
Wine for sure. At first I was more about whites. But now — the other night we had a really nice steak dinner and a really nice class of Cabernet. So I think as I get older I appreciate red wine more.
And cocktails?
Recently when I'm out and about my go-to is a Moscow Mule. Summer is a lot of Aperol Spritz. I feel like that's the summer drink. And it looks so refreshing.
What is it about Moscow Mule that you like?
It's the ginger that makes it. If they make it right it's not too sweet.
We’re here at Tiny's & The Bar Upstairs where you’re a part-owner. What made you want to go into the restaurant world?
I think the longer you spend time in New York you want more connections to the city than just playing the game. That's friends, it's things to do, but
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