HV71 is about to create a myth about itself in the Hockeyallsvenskan. Like the unbeatable giant from the SHL.
## The big favorite that stands up to the pressure.
But it is best to emphasize “on the road”. Because we are so far barely a third into the basic series. A lot has time to happen.
Just check out Kristianstad. Bad start. But now only the Scanians line up victories and are fifth in the series.
KIK is the team that has been closest to defeating HV71 in Husqvarna Garden. But a 4-2 lead turned into a 5-4 loss in overtime. Because right now it is HV who decides in the Hockeyallsvenskan.
Only Björklöven has managed to win over HV and that by using HV71’s main weapon. The hard work and efficiency.
At Hovet, AIK was really hungry for revenge against HV71, who won the two previous meetings between the teams during the autumn with the odd goal.
And at Hovet, the team took turns in the first and second period to control the game.
Still, it is for the most part in Hockeyallsvenskan HV who manages to get out of tricky inferiors and turn, if necessary, and win.
Sometimes it is one of the goalkeepers who does not have his best evening. Still, HV71 wears out two or three points in the end.
K-ä-m-p-a-r.
Sometimes it is one or more mistakes by the outside players that almost cost a loss. But the will to fight, the team morale, the bastard and the heel at the Court sang rhythmically like a mantra “We will return” is what is the dominant impression when HV71 takes on challenge after challenge in the Hockeyallsvenskan.
AIK also fought. AIK gained several powerplay a lot due to HV negligence and as the series’ best powerplay team, AIK used their fourth chance in numerical superiority to make 1-1.
But as so many times before, HV pulls a rabbit out of his hat and wins the match.
Marcus Davidsson became the match hero when he shot the 2-1 goal 6.25 into the third period.
Always nice to win against AIK, for an ex-farmer…
– Yes absolutely. They are rivals and it is always fun to come to the Court, he says after the victory.
The 15th of 16 possible.
Otherwise, Zion Nybeck with a goal and an assist was a big match winner for HV71. Like goalkeeper Filip Larsson. He and AIK goalkeeper Pavel Chomchenko fought for the title best on the ice.
Larsson won. Of course. That’s what HV71 is doing this autumn. And when a team wins as much as HV does, it is understandable if a kind of feeling of hopelessness creeps into the opposing team. “Because in the end, HV still wins.”
– I think we make a good away match in terms of the whole match. We have a lot of locations and could have gotten in a few more locations. It may be a little too tight in the end, but once again we show the strength of the group, that we just keep grinding, says Marcus Davidsson.
HV71 also has tops in very puck-skilled players such as defender Emil Andrae and sylvass duo Tyler Vesel and Fredrik Forsberg. It is difficult to find better players in this series than they are in their positions.
It is no coincidence that Forsberg and Vesel are first and second in the points league. For once, they would be pointless against AIK. Cred to Gnaget.
HV71 has some savings in players like Simon Önerud, who seems to be in a slightly heavier period in the series, and the same can be said about Christoffer Törngren and Jesper Kokkonen as well.
Törngren worked out a powerplay against AIK and rubs on in boxplay. The chef has slipped down to the fourth chain and can do so much more than he gets out of his game.
## Maybe it will come loose in the future and then HV71 will be even harder to beat.
AIK made a good effort and threatened HV. On Friday, the team gets a fourth and final chance to win over the “invincible” HV71.
Rumors circulating around HV are that each team section will be strengthened on the journey towards the playoffs this spring.
