How far can Mora go this winter?
Table Rocket are now hanging on to runners-up Bjorkloven after a 3-0 home defeat against Västervik.
Johan Hedberg has built a team machine that’s even hotter than Leksand.
This means that he is already ready for the upcoming SHL season.
In a major battle that’s becoming increasingly open-ended, Mora suddenly appears to have a realistic opportunity to follow his trainer to the SHL. One of several for sure, but I definitely wouldn’t include them in this category before the series started.
They are the big bang out there.
But the likable Johan Hedberg has done a great job of building a competitor out of the stuff of a player who really shouldn’t be able to compete with the big boys.
But you do.
And Hedberg’s job did not escape the clubs higher in the hierarchy, where, according to all rumors, he is ready for Örebro and the championship next season.
And I don’t doubt for a moment that they are right.
One of the hottest bands in Sweden
Keeping shifts a secret is hockey’s worst branch in Sweden.
Mora is the hottest hockey team at the moment and has been undefeated full-time in nine straight games, eight of which they have won.
All in all, they feel hotter than old club Hedberg Leksand, which is having a really tough time on the SHL table and hanging and hanging right over the bottom playoff line.
There should be a bit of sting to all games.
I wanted to see Hedberg at the Leksand booth and don’t think I’m alone in that.
This is where the heart is.
But I wish him every success.
Relatively new to the industry and only three seasons as head coach behind him.
But a lot of experience.
After all, he has twelve seasons as a goaltender in the NHL on the merit list.
He was also involved in winning WC gold in Zurich in 1998, although Tommy Salo was the first goalkeeper at the time.
But I especially remember two successful seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, when I was there and saw the crowd sitting in their Elkhorn caps and shouting “Mooooose” every time he made a save.
A nickname he received after his time on the Manitoba Moose farm team.
He quickly became popular there.
He then pursued a long career as a coach in the NHL, but then as a goalie coach for nearly five seasons for the San José Sharks.
It’s hard to see Mora lose
Now perhaps the hottest coach in all of Sweden for hockey is with Jörgen Jönsson in Växjö.
Now you should not hold your chin too much in a chain, as a fool is waiting behind every prediction. No matter how wrapped up.
But I find it hard to see Mora lose everything at the end of the season, when they are usually at their strongest.
Anyway, I’m already looking forward to the Bjorkloven-Mora Summit next Saturday.
Victor Stråhles Björklöven who went down unexpectedly outside Tingsryd this evening.
It also encapsulates the problems of Western Lows.
That high low and continuity is not really there. not yet.
A hockey dream one day, can quickly turn into gutter the next.
The fact that Västerbottinnings go to Tingsryd and are outclassed by bottom Småland in the first period was a clear example of this.
It was 2-0 in Tingsryd’s favor after just over a minute and 3-0 before half of the opening period had even been played.
Naturally, the situation in the table makes Tingsryd even more desperate, but at the same time, a team like Björklöven must be ready for everything when they go out on the ice.
Now they were left in the dressing room contemplating two consecutive 7-3 victories in the match that ended 4-2 at Smålands.
Round buzz.
Djurgården is in freefall in the table now after losing their fifth in a row.
BIK Karlskoga won 4-3 after a penalty kick drama in which Jesper Kokkonen became the grand champion.
When Södertälje won in extra time away from home against Vita Hasten (5-4), they also passed in the table and pushed the Stockholm team into fifth place.
On Wednesday, it was Moura who qualified after a 5-4 penalty shootout in Hovet.
It’s not the perfect position for an upcoming playoff.