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I’ve never seen a hockey game where all the focus was on a player who hadn’t been replaced.
But she is right.
Joel Lundqvist was the biggest loser of the evening.
If there was any elation I would have liked to see when Max Freiberg scored 1-0 for Frolanda there in the second half, it was Joel.
The goal that gave hope.
Or the disappointment when Manuel Agrin scored 1-1 for Vacchu on the counter-attack midway through the end.
Immediately after Frölunda created chance after chance in a numerical advantage, but without getting the puck behind Emil Larmi.
But I left Joel alone when Robert Rosen scored the winning goal and made it 2-1 to Vaxshaw at 11:57 in the first overtime.
The goal that finally ended his career.
At that moment, I think he just wanted to be alone.
Tears said it all
Roger Ronberg’s tears said it all about what Joel has meant to Frolland over the years.
Now he was not allowed to participate in what became the last match in his career as part of the team.
He had to rely entirely on his teammates.
It’s all for Joel, as the new logo has become known.
But it wasn’t enough against the skillful and ruthlessly effective Växjö.
Joel was apparently sitting in a lounge watching the game on TV somewhere in the depths of Scandinavia.
He appeared in an interview with CMore in the intermission between the second and third shifts and it looked like his brother Henrik was a stylist this evening.
A black suit, white shirt and tie is impressive as Henkes usually is.
But I still don’t want to get dressed tonight.
You can not finish on the ice
There is nothing more nerve-wracking to force a player to watch a match from the sidelines.
Especially when you are the last person still part of the team.
Even more so after twenty seasons in the same club colours.
Joel had walked around and all his team mates rushed before the game and looked everyone in the eye.
It seemed to help until that equalizer came and forced Växjö into extra time.
Now it was a huge loss, even though the Gothenburg team was the best team in this match.
And of all the losers in Frolunda, Joel was the biggest.
He came straight onto the ice to congratulate Växjö on the victory and I think there are also many in the winning team who struggled with it.
It seemed so.
Now he could not finish his ice career in his beloved Scandinavia, but he was still there. It was his soul that floated on top of the ice.
No fuss
Now there was no sense that Vakashu had won.
I don’t know if Jörgen Jönsson drew inspiration from any of the exclusive watch factories during his time in Switzerland, but he made the Växjö work as an accurate timepiece this season.
And when the Småländers fought back and forced an extension, the clock struck for both Joel Lundqvist and Frölunda.
But it’s not a big sense that the men of Småland are in SM’s finale.
After all, Växjö won the regular season while Frölunda finished sixth.
Although Gothenburg’s quarter-final match against Vrjestad was impressive and gave hope, it was not possible to break the tie with Vaksho.
Actually nothing strange about it.
Everything now points to the SC finals between series one Växjö and series two Skellefteå, which in this case makes more sense.
It was still a tough end for Joel Lundqvist and Frolland, but he will still be celebrated and remembered and put his jersey on the roof of Scandinavia.
Few deserve it more.
He is one of the greatest figures in the history of the SHL, yes, perhaps the greatest next to Jörgen Jönsson who hugged him afterwards.
This is not a bad record to leave behind.