The news about Weigel came too late

Bjorkloven received word that Fredrik Weigel had been suspended just six hours before kick-off against Djurgården.

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You can decide one of the most important matches of the year.

Yes, sometimes I wonder how bad Swedish hockey can get.

This decision, of course, would have come within 24 hours, as in the case of SHL.

But Hockey Allsvenskan clearly has a worse agreement with the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation which means the disciplinary committee cannot be called on such short notice.

I had no idea there needed to be an agreement to settle these kinds of issues in Swedish hockey and that you could obviously buy yourself out.

Inexplicably late decision

It feels absolutely crazy and especially in qualifying times, when there’s so much at stake.

Here, of course, there must be an explicit 24-hour rule, from HockeyEttan upwards.

One of Bjorkloven’s best players in the playoffs was Fredrik Weigel leading the indoor scoring league with nine points (2+7).

A true major player in the first series with Scott Polley and Nick Shilkie.

The series that has been Bjorkloven’s best so far.

Now he’s suspended just hours before the game and sets it up for coach Victor Strahle, who has to reshape the strings.

This naturally gives Djurgården a clear advantage and breaks the prejudice that decision-making in hockey lies in Stockholm.

Now, of course, it has nothing to do with the matter, but it remains an unnecessary focus on things that could have been avoided.

Then there was no getting around the fact that it was Weigel himself who caused it, when he went off overheating severely in the first match against Djurgården.

He crossed the line with a really ugly cut on Lucas Videmo’s knee, which the referees missed.

But he wasn’t popular with zoo camp after that, which, of course, was the point.

There is a clear risk of infection here.

Seen similar to stabbed

You’ve seen old full-back Matthias Norström get wrecked in the entire World Cup, ever since he took a similar blow in the second group stage match against Switzerland at the World Cup in Zurich 1998.

It hit a sensitive nerve and it took weeks for his leg to get back on track.

He had to step down from the tournament after that uproar.

So I have no objection to Weigel being suspended for one game.

Processing time is the big issue here and I hope this is the last time an actual game day decision will be made in the playoff.

At the same time, I can wonder why AIK defender Erik Noren managed to avoid being reported, when he delivered a similar blow to Oskar Pettersson in the team’s fifth meeting in Ö-vik.

The famous match in which AIK coach Anders Blomqvist urged his players to play poorly.

There are no consequences, I think.

At the same time as Weigel’s ban, defender Daniel Rahimi will return from the three-match suspension he served in the quarter-final against Vasteras.

It raises the pace of this solid semi-final match even further.

Even SM Finals can’t compete on this point.