A cracking derby at the Avicii Arena on Wednesday and jubilant park rangers after a 3-1 defeat to AIK.
But on Friday they returned to daily life.
And that fire that ignited in the iron stoves went out one evening when they had to take the bus home without any points after a 3-4 win against Al-Mtona.
Djurgården which became the Allsvenskan hockey team’s answer to HV71.
I wonder how Djurgården will deal with the early crisis.
How long will Johan Garbenlöf stay alive if he doesn’t stop the bleeding?
The wake-up call after the derby win over AIK was tough, even though I knew Mtona Robert Kempe would get another win,
They beat Djurgården in three out of four games last season and were still five points clear in the table.
Now the difference is eight.
So it wasn’t really a huge surprise, even if Animal Farms was for some reason the bookmakers’ favorites before the match.
Now defender Jakob Ragnarsson, son of Djurgården’s assistant coach Markus, scored a 1-0 win against Almtona four minutes after the start of the first half.
Frederik Schleiter equalized after a solo performance, when he took the route behind the penalty area and headed into a free position in front of goal, before putting the ball behind Oliver Håkansson.
Success since coming from Brinas
But in the second, Al-Mtona took the lead again when Hampus Harlstam scored a rebound in front of the goal.
Alexander Ljungkrantz was then cleverly cleared in front of the penalty area and scored 3-1.
Daniel Brodin sparked a glimmer of hope when he reduced the score to 3-2 at the end of the second.
I thought this would wake up the zoos.
And it was the opposite.
Another early goal gave Al-Mtona 4-2 already 1.20 into the final period.
Alexander Ljungkrantz scored on a rebound, scoring his second goal of the game and eighth overall of the season.
He has been successful since coming from Brinas.
Now Djurgården got a reduction when Daniel Brodin scored again to make it 4-3, but there was no impact at all as Kevin Karlsson went off with 1.36 remaining.
Alamtona have made quite a splash so far, with a budget that is nowhere near the budget that Djurgården’s sporting director KJ Stoppel has to play with.
Big failure team this season
No, as of now Djurgården is the top hockey team in Allsvenskan.
They weren’t supposed to be at this end of the table.
Before the season, they were third favorites with Svenska Spel, behind Brenas and Bjorkloven.
This was also reflected in Sportbladet’s tips for the season, where six out of ten experts had Animal Farms in third place and the other tips were 1-2-4-6.
A big team is expected and in this way the start is worse than the crisis team of SHL HV71.
Just like HV71, they had a very difficult time away from home and only Västervik scored fewer points.
As long as Djurgården finds himself where he is, coach Johan Garbenlöf will remain increasingly questionable.
There is no escape from this.
The clock is ticking for Garbin
Don’t forget that Djurgården was in third place when Joachim Fagerwaal got the kick at the end of November last year.
Admittedly, the team had just lost four out of five matches and were thirteen points behind leaders Modu.
But look at the table today.
The distance to the top is greater.
After playing eleven matches.
A new tough match now awaits us away from home on Wednesday, against the old BIK Karlskoga, which has already come back to life.
It feels like the clock is ticking for Garpen and his Djurgården.
And talk about the contrasts with the derby against AIK on Wednesday.
It was then sold out and 13,250 were put in the stands.
This evening, 1141 searched for Granby Eshal, even though Djurgården was visiting.
In a city with a population of nearly 180,000, El-Mouna seems worthy of more attention.
AIK bounced back quickly after losing the derby to Djurgården.
They pulled off an impressive turnaround away to Södertälje, turning a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 win on penalties in front of an impressive 6,204 spectators in Skaniarinken.
Zion Nebek scored the decisive penalty kick.
This means that AIK can call themselves the best in Stockholm at the moment.
They are now in seventh place.