At the end of November, Brinas stretched out with Miko Manner. From then on, the game faltered, the scoring average dropped and the team slipped to the qualifying spot.
After another loss, 1-7 against nightmare opponent Oskarshamn, Brynäs into the qualification zone.
– Really really bad of Brynäs to act like that at home. Total collapse, says Si Moore expert Johan Tornberg.
poengkung Antti Suomela Såg from SHL up to Senka up to Brennas. The Finn scored his 29th and 30th goal of the season as he put Oskarshamn up 2-0.
The impossible Finn also has a 5-1 record and is now up to 31 goals.
With nine matches remaining, Sumela is 11 goals short of Hakan Loeb’s “impossible” goalscoring record.
Brinas took the lead at 26-10 after 28 minutes, but Oskarshamn made it 3-0 after Johannes Salmonsson scored another goal.
Then Brenas replaced Anders Lindbäck, who went straight to the dressing room and never came back.
In com nyförvarvet Jussi Olkinuora.
Oscarshamn managed to make it 4-0 halfway through the period before Alexander Ljungkrantz went down.
For Brenas, the situation is becoming increasingly perilous.
On 29 November, Gävleklubben announced that it had extended the contract with Mikko Manner through the next season.
Only Malmö is worst since November
But there was no positive effect.
When the extension was announced, Brynäs was ninth with 29 points in 21 games, with a 1.38 point average.
In mid-February, the situation was precarious to say the least.
Since Brynäs stretched with Manner, they’ve only had 21 points in 22 games, for a 0.95 point average. During that period, only Malmö’s team was worse with 17 points in 22 games.
Brynäs has only had two points in his last five games. Now gone lead to HV71 all ten points. Instead, Brynäs now had HV71 two points short of the qualifying mark for the first time since the start of the series.
Brynäs had to qualify for 2021 – and now the new qualifying match is dangerously close.
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