Updated on 23.30 | Published 23.24
The match between Södertälje and Djurgården was canceled and the arena evacuated.
It is clear that the match was played in front of empty stands, which angered the home team.
“We believe that the responsibility lies entirely with Djurgården’s supporters,” Södertälje wrote on his website.
“A black day for hockey”.
This is how SSK tops its official statement after tonight’s events in Skanerink.
Furthermore, the club wrote that it had to end the match, due to competition regulations.
“Absolutely absorbing…”
Something that club director Robert Anderson finds difficult to understand.
-I don’t really care what the competition regulations say. You have to be able to apply the consequentialist approach in a situation like this, he says in a statement.
He believes that Södertälje is the only loser in this situation, and that the damage will have financial consequences.
“It will be investigated.”
Djurgården won the match 3-1. Robert Anderson believes the result should not continue.
– We will investigate all possibilities to try to achieve sporting justice in this matter. “The only reasonable decision was to stop the game and give us a 5-0 win and three points,” he concluded.
Something that doesn’t seem related.
– I rely on the instructions I receive from the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation. After all, Södertälje also has a security director on site and receives information. So I hope they make the right decision together, says Erik Reimann, sports director at Allsvenskan Hockey, to Sportbladet.
Can the result change?
– I have no comment on that, it is up to the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation in this case, says Erik Reimann.
The police were informed
The police prepared a number of reports under several headings.
It is mainly about violent riots, riots and assaults.
But a report was also made of violence against an official after a bottle was thrown at him by a police officer.
The police concluded by saying that the investigation into the incident is continuing.
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