What are your plans for the offseason? Will you be spending the summer back home in Sweden?
LV: I'm going to be here in Sweden and train with Djurgarden, I think. That's my team over here. Then, we'll see. I think I'm going to go over to Montreal in the fall for Rookie Camp. I haven't really planned everything yet, but right now it looks like I'm going to be here in Sweden in the summer.
What - if any - adjustments will you be making to your offseason training regimen? Where do you think you still need to improve?
LV: I don't know, actually. I'm going to talk about that with [amateur scout] Christer Rockstrom. We're going to plan a little bit. Here in Sweden, we're not on the ice so much during the summer, but I think I need to go on the ice a lot this summer to develop some things in my game that I want to be better at. One thing is to be stronger on the puck; to protect the puck and be really strong on it.
How would you characterize your development since being drafted by the Canadiens back in 2015?
LV: I think I've had a good [learning] curve. I've played three years in the Swedish Hockey League, the highest league here. It's a good league, so I think I've improved a lot, for sure. I'm stronger and I've grown up more. I think I've also improved my skating a little bit. I think it's one of the biggest things in my game, that I skate pretty well. Also, I'm a smarter player. Of course, you get smarter with experience. Those are some of the things.
You put up 17 points in 52 games in 2015-16, then had a drop in production down to eight points in 48 the following year. But you bounced back with a career-high 10 goals and 22 points in 47 games this season. You also averaged a career-high 16:35 of ice time per game. What was the biggest factor in getting back on track?
LV: I think this year it was easier to play because we had a good team and we were a top team in the league. The season before this was pretty hard. We had a tough start in the league and we had to fight every game for a win. It's easier when you're a top team. You can play more relaxed. The other thing was I had one more summer to build my body and now I think I'm a lot stronger. That built some confidence, too, and I took that hard training from last summer into the season and felt that I had developed and took that confidence with me. That was an important thing for me.