Gothenburg.
Marveling at everything, even the most mundane, Carl von Linne thought we should.
So… Joel Lundqvist?
Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week.
Washing time, chopsticks, report 19.30.
There is more ice hockey every day than Frölunda-Örebro in the SHL on Tuesday night, the day before the paycheck in January, in Sweden because of the electricity crisis and inflation it won’t happen, but of course there are things we have to wonder about then too.
As Joel Lundqvist.
People have been missing out on the number of seasons he’s played in Frölunda, the 41-year-old center in just a few weeks.
It’s like an old drum major that you inherited from your great-great-grandmother who lived on the Karelian Isthmus.
He means a lot and stands where he always stands, doing his job.
When everyday life is at its best
Of course, there have been thoughts of replacing it with a more modern one, perhaps bought by mail, but every time you stand there in the hall, you realize how rare, how impossible it is to replace for this purpose.
Joel Lundqvist’s daily run when every day is at its best is every Frölundaite’s lunch box – filled with braised lamb or Scanian duck.
He played his first games in Frölunda when Sweden’s highest ice hockey continuum was still called Elitserien, a season that started at the same time the Summer Olympics were being held in Sydney.
On a regular weekday Tuesday night, he played his 900th regular season game (only Jan Sandström and Karl Fabricius have made more) and started it as he started hundreds of other games.
To win (sort of) the first draw of a match.
All teams in all leagues must have a gem like Joel Lundqvist, a player who has played at least 15 years in the association, and if there is no such player, the elite license will be revoked.
Now it may sound as if I am describing a player who has to get around on the ice with the help of a wheelchair, but the truth is that Joel is not only the oldest in Frolland, he is still one of the best.
The captain scores the best, plays in the team’s highest scoring streak and only Max Friberg has scored more points in the indoor scoring league.
May you have time to be a red moon
The contract expires after the season and the 41-year-old decides later and later each time he is offered a contract extension.
Next time there may be a red moon.
In front of Örebro this day of the week he had to play in a newly formed series with brother Lowe Lowe Lowe and bot Karlsson (not Ingvar), whose combined age was hardly calculated as 112 years.
In the first period, Frölunda’s captain was sent off for two minutes for a cut, and when the oldest player on the ice served his penalty, the youngest player on the Ice managed to score 1-1 for Frölunda.
Otto Steinberg (no relation to Grand Prix sports journalist Ulf Steinberg has been found) netted his first ever SHL goal, and it didn’t seem for a moment like everyday life.
Christian Nkeeva gave Örebro the lead in a rather quiet second, and I found myself sitting and hoping the kiss cam in the ring would catch me sitting next to Tommy Sjodin, another old man who made it 43 years before he stopped playing ice hockey.
Örebro had made it 2-1 before the closing period and then moved forward, the village leader Lundqvist, feeding Peteri Lindbohm a simple but very open pass.
A few minutes later, Frölunda power play and Anders Borgmann scored the winning goal 3-2.
“We scored goals, we scored goals, we scored goals in the power play,” chanted the crowd, which reached 9,301, an impressive number considering it was the worst economic day since Carl Bildt was Prime Minister of Sweden.
Frölunda thus consolidated his fourth position, at the bottom of HV71 he managed to salvage two important points at the bottom and tomorrow on Wednesday Joel Lundqvist will be back in action again.
every day.
