Is this the way Swedish hockey wants it?
The price of jumping on the judge?
In the NHL, that’s the equivalent of a quarter of a million grams.
In the Premier League millions.
In Swedish hockey?
Warning finger.
I’m still thinking about the consequences when Djurgården coach Johan Garbenlöf and sporting director KJ Stöbel criticized the referees after the first final against Modo VO-Vik.
Not rubbing salt into the wounds of a club that is currently trailing 3-1 in matches.
Without further backlash from hockey’s own regulations.
There was a simple warning to sporting director KJ Stubel not to go bananas and call the umpires “garbage”.
Is this how Swedish hockey protects its referees?
Then we are among the worst in the world in this branch.
Former Skellefteå coach Stefan Hedlund, now successful coach at Swiss Rapperswil, is one of the few in hockey to seriously raise the issue of refereeing during the playoffs.
I think it’s partly because he’s in a different league and now he’s seeing things from the outside.
But he’s really surprised by all the focus on referees in Sweden, both from coaches, players and not least the media.
The smallest missed parcel is checked, while the player can hit and run away from any Indian in his own territory.
I got food for thought
When Stefan Hedlund himself, in a Swedish manner, broadcast his opinions about the referees in the match against Switzerland, he was immediately fined the equivalent of 20,000 crowns.
It hurt the bank account and Hedlund got food for thought and stopped blaming the referees.
But in Sweden it’s free and the consequences are pretty much non-existent.
And Swedish hockey’s most vulnerable professional group must continue to operate under constant hate and threats.
Then, Swedish coaches and sporting directors are allowed to spy on the torrent of hopes already on social media, one of hockey’s biggest problems at the moment.
The fact that they can do so with impunity is even worse.
After the first final in O-Vic, Zoo coach Johann Garbenlöf spent all TV time after that watching the referees at the ankle.
And KG Stoppel went even further.
Results?
anything.
I think Swedish hockey is ashamed of itself with such judgments.
In the NHL, people are tough and I can only guess what punishment they would have faced if they had done the same thing in the biggest hockey league in the world.
This year alone, Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe and Florida player Paul Morris were each fined $25,000 for complaining about referees after games.
It’s over a quarter of a million crowns.
Bang, boom, creative oops.
Everyone knows what applies.
The signal is crystal clear.
Do not touch our judges.
I remember when Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was fined the equivalent of 580,000 crowns a few years ago after the referee jumped.
It drew worldwide attention, though with little damage done to the German fat bank account.
And this season alone, I read that the Premier League has distributed a total of around £1.3m, roughly 17m kroner, on various charges against referees in the league.
In Sweden?
Yes, everything from a yellow card to short suspensions.
There are no specific frameworks and everything is an incomprehensible lottery.
Was he satisfied before?
For example, Tingsryd coach Frederik Gladyer was suspended for a game last winter, according to his own statement, throwing angry looks at the referees.
In last year’s Allsvenskan qualifiers, Johan Hedberg in Mura was fined SEK 10,000 for calling the referees out for things that were unclean.
But the one who has been the worst over time is Roger Runeberg of the Frölunda team.
The question is whether he is satisfied with any arbitration effort.
He’s played down criticism lately, but the min game in the booth says what he really thinks and C More always seems to have a camera on him every time Frölunda is sent off.
They are no more stupid than they know what good television is.
Of course, contempt for judgment is also prohibited.
This means that few of them want to be judges today.
You almost have a self-torturing tendency to choose a career path where almost no one will appreciate the work you do.
The result is of course fewer and worse judges.
Is this the way Swedish hockey wants it?