Second Sheffield Steelers player reveals he contracted Covid-19

The Norwegian international picked up a knee injury, then suffered from the coronavirus, returned to good health to see his Austrian team lose in the early play off rounds, before his new Sheffield Steelers side were beaten in the EIHL series Finals.

That's quite a series of reverses.

Added to that, he had hoped to bag a place in his national side to play in the World Championships.

But just before the Nottingham finals, he received word he had not been selected after all - a crushing personal disappointment.

"I was expecting at least to go to the camp and show myself. I didn’t get that chance, so I am really disappointed," Saxrud-Danielsen told The Star.

His omission was a surprise to his Sheffield teammates, too.

The defenceman finished the tournament as the EIHL's best plus-minus statistic performer.