Niklas Wikegård thinks Roger Rönnberg’s game system is outdated.
This makes coach Frölunda excited.
Very badly undermined with what reality looks like, says Runeberg to the family doctor.
At the SHL kick-off meeting a year ago he said Roger Runberg to me “Frölunda will keep pushing until they kick me out of the parking lot.”
In an interview with Göteborgs-Posten ahead of this year’s season, he defended his game idea – while also sending boots to critics.
“Roger Runeberg’s way of playing hockey is outdated – and nothing you can win trophies with anymore.” This causes Ronberg’s eyes to turn black, said TV expert Niklas Wakegaard.
– Because I find it so badly undermined! It is very poorly undermined with what reality looks like. I was happy that the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup with a playing system almost identical to the one we play with, he told the newspaper.
“I do not believe that”
Rönnberg, who himself joined SVT as a TV expert during the 2019 and 2021 Hockey World Cup continues:
– I just heard Jonas Anderson talking on TV about Breenas playing smart – because they’re back home, playing a coordinated defensive match. In Sweden, we talk about being smart. There are a lot of explanations for why people think this way, because Swedish culture is the way team sports are played. You are rallying and playing a low defense game. But I can’t believe it! In the last 15 years, I have not seen a team that has increased the likelihood of winning such games.
Indicates the only exception
Rönnberg believes there are “many other factors at play” in winning titles and naming the Finnish team – who have won both the WC and Olympics with this style of play in recent years – as the only exception.
I don’t see any club winning with this style of play. Teams like Luleå and Färjestad, who played in the final this spring, are playing with somewhat greater scrutiny, while Rögle, who won the CHL title, plays the same way. Växjö checks. So it’s tiring that journalists don’t find out what the reality is.
Frölunda went to the semi-finals in both the SHL and CHL last season. They meet Timra at home at the SHL Premiere on Saturday, September 17th.
