in Total there were 116 people who chose to spend the onsdagseftermiddagen on the Court to see the SDHL-the match between Djurgården and Luleå.
some 50 specially invited school students, a few brave parents and supporters, Damkronornas current head coach Sue Martinsen, the former national team coach Peter Elander and driscoll in the First five defendants Dick Axelsson.
the Background to their unusual eftermiddagsnöje was a set match.
the Match between Djurgården and Luleå would actually have been settled on 21 October, but after just a played period was forced to cancel it after the ice problems on the Court.
Then began the puzzle in order to find a new game day.
things that in many ways symbolizes the damhockeyns problems.
and with that the players have jobs and school that will be operated makes it to matches often concentrated around the weekends.
To this, the lack of isytor in several cities, but especially in Stockholm, and of course also the economic part.
the Law in the SDHL, Swedish damhockeyligan, have small budgets to move with and can’t afford extravagant travel and hotel rooms.
Add to that that the schedule is already packed.
this time, therefore, became the solution to a eftermiddagsmatch on a weekday. Then could Luleå to go forward and back over the day.
” Two weeks in a row we have played matches both Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and already on Friday we have the next match. Therefore, had it not been optimal if we had needed to stay, ” says Fredrik Glader.
– All the stray and the procedure takes unnecessary energy.
a onsdagseftermiddag is no dreamtime if you want to attract the audience.
– No, it is clear that it is not. Therefore, we took the opportunity to invite school children to the match, ” says SDHL’s commercial director Angelica Lindeberg.
The young fans did what they could to cheer up the players, but the feeling that this was the match that God forgot, went, nevertheless, not to shake.
Those who had gone earlier from work to get to the start of the game, however, had to see an exciting match.
Photo: Hampus Andersson
Luleå took the lead with 2-1, but in the other end of the last second scored the home team’s Josefin Bouveng to 2-2.
When Luleå, sweden were awarded a penalty in the middle of the third period, however, came the decision. Skillful Michelle Karvinen put the penalties and Luleå won 3-2.
– Nice with victory, but in the first and second we were not good. In the third we took, however, grasp it, says Luleå’s landslagsmålvakt Sara Grahn after the victory.
in order to attract more audience to the SDHL, but on most spelorterna, the road is still long to go.
the Work does not become easier with the varying days and start times. SDHL-matches can start from in the morning to late in the evening.
” the Dream is that in the future we will have fixed days to see the show. It is, of course, nothing solves itself in a day but learn to take a number of years, but it must be the goal, ” says Fredrik Glader.
A first step might be that we do not play both Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Sunday. It would be better for the players, who get a chance to rebound, and makes it easier to attract the audience.
