Friday 19th - Chill dudes & dudettes

[Evil Chris]

Originally Posted by hincapie

Hockey is getting exciting ... the village team lost the 12th in a row and is more or less certain to get relegated, but the local heroes are within 3points of championship playoffs in the SHL ... we shall overcome

What team are you referring to? One in the SHL? I'm not sure how the Swedish league works in terms of relegation etc. But I like to learn more about EU leagues. I used to follow the Bundesliga years ago when I lived overseas.

[hincapie]

Originally Posted by Evil Chris

What team are you referring to? One in the SHL? I'm not sure how the Swedish league works in terms of relegation etc. But I like to learn more about EU leagues. I used to follow the Bundesliga years ago when I lived overseas.

In the SHL I follow Leksand ... its a village about 50kms away with 5000 people but they consistently fill the hockey stadium with 7000+ people coming from all over (when not in corona) - and always send 2000+ to away games...A historic darling of Swedish hockey though we´ve usually been in the second tier. We are 7th in the league, top6 goes into championship playoffs - 11 & 12 go into relegation games but no risk of that for once.

Generally the SHL is better than the Bundesliga, on a level with the Swiss league approximately (and around KHL/second tier level for the US - but way below NHL obviously)

My local village team is called Malung - and is in the 3rd tier - first time ever we have been that high...and the trouble is half the teams we are up against are full time pro´s ...ours all have fulltime jobs aside from the hockey. And well, we are getting trashed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxwn2V03wX0