KARLSTAD.
It’s so poised, intense and tight between Färjestad BK and Luleå Hockey that it would require a particularly sought-after split-iron ace from southern Germany to separate the teams in this final series.
Or as we say in ice hockey – Swedish.
decisive seventh.
Karlstad greeted us on Monday afternoon with open arms, he had, of course, the sunniest smile and it took no more than 3.8 seconds before he felt in the air that ice hockey was a job in progress.
FBK shirts are in all directions I’ve looked and if there’s one thing they can do in Karlstad it’s to do well before the final.
The Ice Hockey World Cup was in Prague weather, the early summer evening was beautifully warm and the outside cafes were crowded when people were eating burgers and beer, immediately necessary play-off provisions like this at the end of qualifying where matches are necessary played so much that fans went to an away game They hardly get home again before they have to hit the roads again.
I also ate a burger, chatted for a while with Ljungby’s son Roger “Ragge” Johansson who put the price as big as a Småland iceberg, and then we were ready to drop in.
Halfway to the Golden Stars Math Elevator
The visiting heel of Lulia sang “Haha, yeah, yeah, haha, yeah, yeah, we’ll take the gold in Karlstad today” But as usual in this latest series, we weren’t shown any big surprises.
Färjestad made it 1-0 after ten minutes and on just one occasion the away team in this SM final were on top and that was when Färjestad scored the final goal of the final series in Luleå in the first match.
The home team increased to 2-0 after just two minutes, and there were a few minutes there in the middle of the first period as Färjestad played his best in Sven Ingvars ice hockey.
Swinging, entertaining, lots of riding, hard work and good pay for the inconvenience, well, it was nothing but a missing pair of underwear.
Served by Viksten Linus Johansson (also from Ljungby) to a superb equalizer, he tricked Joel Lassinantti midway into the Math raise for the Golden Star before putting the disc into an open box with a backhand.
The atmosphere at Färjestad’s coffee was obsessive and the press stand, very high in the square, swayed when 8000 jumped here.
If he collapsed, Niklas Kronwall would have been the race favorite, followed by Jürgen Johnson, Magnus Wallmann and Per Svargadt.
Halfway through the period, Brendan Shinnimin (who continues to overtake in the most bizarre way) had the best chance of scoring in the middle of the match sequence for several minutes, but somehow managed to hit the post from close range and when Dominik Furch was nowhere near .
Unimaginable Miss
An unimaginable mistake cost Luleå close contact, a method in the match, and an extra gin.
Färjestad seemed to comfortably clean up the third game but then Evige Einar managed to cut back when he was behind the extended goal line pushing the ball through Furch back and into the goal.
I think it’s going to be exciting now, for 33 seconds before Sami Lipsto breaks the legs of the FBK striker in perhaps the clearest stumble in SMP match history.
In the subsequent numerical superiority, Albert Johansson, a Ragge boy, showed a jovial Foppa when his face was a centimeter away from the short board, playing the disc between his legs, to the back and front of the box where Burslund could whip the disc from the ceiling.
Ice hockey may seem like a strange game.
In the hockey final in Allsvenskan, the ground advantage on the ground was as heavy as the socket, in the final of the Swedish championship has been very decisive so far.
Lulea has lost once (the first ten semi-finals against Froland) in his ten home qualifying matches and Färjestad has lost none.
Karlstad has nine teams in a row, but that doesn’t matter anymore because they can now thaw here and get ready for GES parties and other noises.
The final decisive final will take place in Lulea on Thursday and of course it will be a really great event for anyone who thinks that ice hockey is very fun and not emotionally attached to any of the teams.
I decided at home
For everyone else, leaders, players and supporters, it would of course be awful.
Since the best-of-seven were introduced in the 2002/03 season, two finals of the Swedish championship were decided exactly this way, and HV71 won both times and decided on its own home ground.
Lulia hasn’t won a gold medal in Sweden since 1996, and Färjestad has had six since.
Before deciding on Fort Lulia on the track on Thursday, we only knew two things.
That we don’t know anything and that it will definitely be something we will soon forget.
Haha, yes, yes.
