Gable. Three hungry eagles were sitting on the roof of the Gavlerinken, waiting when I got to Gävle.
When I came home, after the Brennas beat Leksand 4-3, they were no longer visible.
Whatever you want, whatever you want, whatever you say.
I’d like to commend Brynäs for playing a classic rock song that smells of ice hockey in the ’80s during the presentation rather than a pekoral song written by the local troubadour, as it does in many other places.
The fact that there are at least two satirical undertones of the fact that it’s a Status Quo song is a bit funny.
The only thing that has been the status quo at the Brenas in recent years is lackluster performance on the ice, one thing that hasn’t been the status quo in the booth.
Here, coaches and athletic directors have been thrown left and right and their value is not much higher than the plastic cutlery brought from the barbecue, in recent years they have been fired with a repetition that only football chiefs from Sicily can compete.
We ice hockey journalists have drawn a line between Skutskär, Ockelbo and Sandviken – the Bermuda Triangle where Swedish ice hockey coaches disappear without a trace.
You know – that doesn’t mean a slap
After a deplorable start to the season in terms of points with just one win in their first six games, it was only natural to take the car to Lilla Momendalen to immediately ask if Mikko Maner and Finnish coach Troika were safe.
– Babysitter Miko Maner safely?
Sporting director Johan Alsin spoke to the local press before the match and said that Brenas “didn’t get the start he wanted” but on the other hand he had “full confidence in Maner”.
Those who have followed Swedish ice hockey for a few years know that this does not mean a slap.
Every director who has been dismissed has always enjoyed the full confidence of management until the day he no longer has it.
When a boss is fired, it rarely comes like a bolt of the blue.
The feeling of stagnation has been creeping in for a while and without anyone noticing it has taken hold and is starting to make people in decision-making positions insecure, they sleep poorly, feel stressed, stressed, stalked, questioned and perhaps even searched for, passing to a later stage in doubt , paranoid, become choleric and fire the coach.
– So, is Miko Manner safe?
I think so.
Brenas didn’t seem quite as brave and the club’s management allowed Maner to fill up the booth full of compatriots, this shows that they really believe in Maner and have decided to be more patient this time around.
Prior to tonight’s game, Brynäs wasn’t completely behind on a flat table and limp either.
Almost lacks emotions
The encounter with Lakesand became a swing story as the home team took the lead early in the game since Marek Hrivik had just arrived and played ice-chicken hockey in their area.
Leksand scored 1-1 and 1-2 before Brynäs took the game to a tie again before the end of the first period.
We saw the subtlety of the match in the second period after Dmytro Timashov made it 3-2 with the help of an obscure player against the somewhat worn out Mantas Armales.
At the end of the match, Leksand found an impressive 3v2 position and a largely open goal from the far side, but with acrobatic precision Anders Lindbäck managed to slip in there and save the puck with a real blocking of Rinat Dassajev.
The polka wand danced on the goal line before deciding to come off the post instead of on or into the post.
Leksand tied again early in the last period, but Dmytro Timashov had to be a big hero of the match along with the just mentioned Lindback, who played great and made several sweaty and televised saves.
We also couldn’t see any unbridled chase for a tie at a “rival meeting” that was completely devoid of emotion, and this was as exhilarating as a PRO trip to the Swedish National Museum of Rail History.
Only after the match, I was slightly moved when the champion of the match Timashov said “fuck you” to parts of the audience because, according to his own statement, he felt sorry for all those who “wrote a lot of nonsense”.
Three points to the Brynäs (or “Prynäs” as the magician Mikko Manner says) and the vultures on the roof of the Gavlerinken must wait for their Finnish liver box, victory means that the Gävle climbed two peg holes in the table and that a frightening position just before the crisis and all doubts are met , at least temporarily.
One of my ornithologists in Söderfors, west of Turbet, announced late in the evening that he noticed three emaciated vultures heading south, all monotonously chattering:
Tommy Samuelson, Tommy Samuelson, Tommy Samuelson…