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If Djurgården takes a step back to the SHL, then Swedish hockey should revise the league system.
once again.
Then we had essentially a closed league, where three teams from the SHL had joined the Hockey Allsvenskan and turned around.
And Brynäs is already the big favorite to rise next year.
When individual investigator Ola Lundberg introduced his series investigations five years ago, the basic idea was that an Allsvenskan team would be guaranteed a place in the SHL each season.
the influence?
No old team has been promoted from Allsvenskan since the playoffs were used for the first time in the 2020/21 season.
It instead became a straight back path for SHL teams that left.
In the year of the premiere, Timrå returned with a year’s delay, when they were knocked out in 2019 and didn’t get a chance in 2020, when the playoffs were canceled due to the coronavirus.
But the first chance they got was in the SHL in 2021, when they knocked out the unchanged Bjorkloven in the final.
And the next year, it was the HV71 that went down and overturned.
They won both the regular season and weren’t threatened in the playoffs either.
One of the teams that stayed
Now Djurgården is one game away from returning to the top flight after two straight wins over Modo.
Modo, and is one of the remaining Allsvenskan teams, despite several large investments.
Björklöven, Västerås, BIK Karlskoga, Mora and AIK are other Allsvenskan greats who have become permanent residents of the second highest league and have less and less chance of moving up.
And before next winter, Brynäs is already an overwhelming candidate for retreat.
Well-known stars such as Johan Larsson, Anton Rudin, Linus Holland and others decided to stay and try to play Brynäs again.
Most recently, it was Tyler Vesel who finished the qualifying tournament in HV71 last year after two seasons in Björklöven.
Therefore, this seventh and decisive match between Modu and Djurgården is very important.
The price is high for a team that stays in Svenskan hockey.
And not just because they have Brynäs to fight with.
It looks worse for Djurgården
It is already clear that Modo will lose his best players if they miss the finish line.
Above all, driver and defender David Bernhardt, who has already finished moving south to Timra.
However, I think Modo is more than ready for another season in Hockey Allsvenskan.
The financial situation is good, with shares valued at 19.5 million, and sporting director Henrik Gradin and coach Matthias Karlind have shown they can build teams and find deals in the transfer market.
For Djurgården it looks even worse.
If they stay, they will not have the SHL parachute of six million, but the same conditions as everyone else.
And I think the winter has cost a lot with the late new acquisitions and the fired coach in Joakim Fagervall.
But Djurgården naturally has a tradition and support from both fans and sponsors that will put them in high esteem next year too.
Now if there is a loss today.
I want the old playoff series back
And Modo still has a chance to break the trend of recent years if they can win and bounce back after seven winters in hockey Allsvenskan.
It will probably silence the worst criticism of the current system, although I think this experiment should be stopped and that Swedish hockey should return to the old way, in which two teams had the opportunity to rise.
Although there was a risk of not being promoted to the Allsvenskan team, reality has shown that this rarely or never happens.
And often two teams were leading.
This system favored the top teams in Hockey Allsvenskan, against the two teams that came last in the SHL and were on a losing streak.
Most of all, I’d like the old playoff series back.
HockeyEttan’s qualification for hockey allsvenskan showed just how exciting it can be, as everything was decided in the final round in the last two years.
She had tremendous charm.
Although the risk was that it was decided long before the final rounds.
The last time promotion was decided by a two-way playoff series between the two worst teams from the SHL and the two best teams from the Hockey Allsvenskan, both teams were knocked out of the SHL.
It was 2019 when Oscarshamn knocked out Timra and crushed Lexand Moura.
That says it all.