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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.
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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