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Djurgårdens IF won against Skellefteå AIK J20

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The victory with 3-2 (0-0, 3-1, 0-1) at home against Skellefteå AIK J20 makes Djurgården the series winner in J20 National Top 10 men. Skellefteå AIK J20 is in third place in the table, but now played its last match in the series.

The victory was Djurgården’s fifth in the last six games.

The first period was scoreless. Djurgården accounted for three straight goals in the second period when the team grabbed the lead with 3-0, in just 5.32.

After 13.17 of the period, Rasmus Bergqvist was able to score 3-1 for Skellefteå AIK J20. After 1.22 in the third period, Skellefteå AIK J20’s Valter Lindberg reduced again on passes by Oskar Vuollet and Viggo Nordlund. That settled the final score at 3-2.

This was Djurgården’s seventh odd-goal victory this season. The loss was also Skellefteå AIK J20’s fifth odd-goal loss.

Zigge Bratt and Bosse Meijer.

Photo: Simon Eld & Bildbyrån (Montage)

Together with the team’s head coach, Hockeysverige.se goes through all the teams in the J18 National – with comments on ALL players. Today is the time for Frölunda HC.

• Youngest and most complete? “Register as a senior player”
• Crazy explosion: “A giant talent – following in his brother’s footsteps”
• “The puck is glued to the blade – pretty impressive”
• The team’s point king: “It will take him a long time”

Frölunda HC

Read everything about Frölunda J20 here – comments about ALL players.

Read all texts about J18 National here.

Players such as Isac Born, David Edstrom, Otto Stenberg, Albin Sundin and the Hasa brothers have all joined Frölunda’s A team in recent seasons – and there will be more.

After quarter-final losses two years in a row, Frölunda’s J18 have recharged properly. An already stable core has been strengthened by exciting 08s and the team has flown forward both during the autumn and the spring. With two games left to play, they have only three losses throughout the season and are seen as one of the big favorites to take home the JSM gold.

– If you look at the table, it is clear that we are favourites, says the head of the academy Christopher Martin.

Together with Martin, Hockeysverige.se now goes through all the players in the squad, and dives deep into Frölunda’s junior activities.

Here you can read all texts in the article series “Stars of the Future”

Färjestad defeated Malmö at home in Thursday’s match in the SHL. 5-4 (1-0, 2-1, 2-3) ended the match and the big hero was Liam Öhgren.

15:09 into the third period, Liam Öhgren scored Färjestad’s winning goal. With this, Färjestad has twelve straight victories in the SHL and is heading towards the series victory.

Färjestad started the match energetically and took the lead right at the beginning of the match. After only 3.05, Michael Lindqvist struck on a pass from Liam Öhgren. After 2.40 in the second period, Adam Ollas Mattsson struck, played by Thomas Berg Paulsen and Albert Sjöberg and equalized for Malmö.

Färjestad’s Magnus Nygren made it 2-1 after 7.25 on a pass by Marcus Nilsson and Joel Kellman. Liam Öhgren also made it 3-1 after 9.47 on passes from August Tornberg and Marcus Westfält. Malmö led the game in the third period. The team won the period 2-3, but Färjestad was able to hold on and win the match 5-4.

Färjestad’s Liam Öhgren accounted for two goals and an assist.

Färjestad is in strong form with five wins and a 22-13 goal difference in the last five games, while Malmö has three wins and two losses and a 16-12 goal difference. This was Färjestad’s seventh odd-goal win this season. The loss was also Malmö’s 16th odd-goal loss.

With two rounds remaining, Färjestad is in the league lead, and Malmö is in twelfth place.

The next time the teams play in the series is Saturday, March 9. Then Färjestad meets Frölunda in Scandinavium at 15.15. Malmö takes on Modo Hockey away at 18.00.

2-6 (1-0, 0-3, 1-3) was the result when Oskarshamn and Mora met in the Be-Ge Hockey Center on Sunday. With this, Mora has six consecutive victories in the J20 National fort men.

Oskarshamn took the lead after eight minutes of play, through Alexander Petersson assisted by Nace Langus and Lukas Wik. However, Mora turned the game around when the team scored three straight goals and went from 1-0 to 1-3 in the second period. However, Oskarshamn reduced to 2-3 through Calle Karlsson after 12.02 of the match.

Mora then accounted for three straight goals in the third period when the team went from 2-3 to 2-6 in just 4.08. Mora thus took a clear victory.

Oskarshamn is in eighth place in the table after the match, while Mora is in fourth place. Mora was ninth in the table 22 days ago, but has received a boost.

In the next match, Saturday 9 March, Oskarshamn have Linköping away in Stångebro Ice Hall at 12.00, while Mora plays away against Almtuna at 15.00.

Björklöven broke his long streak of 119 minutes.
But it didn’t help as Djurgården won 2-1 to break their three-game losing streak.

On Wednesday evening, a new summit in the HockeyAllsvenskan awaited when Djurgården and Björklöven met at Hovet. There were two teams hungry for revenge as DIF came to the match with three straight losses, while Löven was held to a clean sheet last time against Södertälje.

It was then Djurgården that managed to break the streak by defeating “Löven” and winning 2-1 to get a greater distance down to just Björklöven in sixth place.

The home team got off to a good start and were able to take the lead after barely seven minutes of play when newly acquired Kalle Loponen walked in and scored his first goal for Djurgården in his fourth game for the team.

DIF was also the stronger team in the first period and the lead stood after 20 minutes played.

– It’s always fun to score goals and now we’re leading 1-0. I got a lot of time there. We need to be a little more accurate with the puck and get the game up to speed and it will be good, says goal scorer Loponen to TV4 during the break.

However, Björklöven needed to step up in the second period, said Daniel Rahimi, who made a comeback after suffering an injury.

– It’s great fun to be back. It feels perfectly fine and you get more and more into it. There are probably two teams that are a bit wait-and-see. Above all, I think we have more to give, we can get inside more and be more aggressive, says Rahimi.

Kalle Loponen gives Djurgården the lead against Björklöven – his first goal for the club🏒 pic.twitter.com/OvFuzcbmpM

— TV4 Hockey (@TV4_Hockey) February 28, 2024

Björklöven press – then Djurgården expanded

In the second period, Björklöven also raised his game and created a lot of chances but without getting a hole in DIF keeper Viktor Andrén. Instead, a cold shower came just before the break.

Albin Grewe was responsible for a nice pass to Olle Liss in front of the goal who was able to score 2-0 behind Niklas Svedberg with only 33 seconds left in the second period and even though Löven led the game, it was Djurgården who scored the goal.

– It was well understood by Grewe because their defenders steal a bit, so it was an open goal for me. We must stay away from the penalty box. We sporadically have some better changes in the attack zone, so we have to take that with us and remove the expulsions to minimize the time in our own zone, and this should probably end well, says Liss during the break.

Björklöven had then gone over 100 minutes without scoring when they were held to zero against Södertälje on Monday and had also failed to score in 40 minutes against Djurgården.

– We will continue as we did in others because there we were better than them. We have to get into the returns as well. We need to push in some return, boring answer, but we need to get in where the goals are scored. I think we are creating but the last part is not there, says Fredric Weigel before the third period.

Olle Liss extends for Djurgården just before the second period is over – 2-0 at Hovet! pic.twitter.com/Pjh5xfP2zA

— TV4 Hockey (@TV4_Hockey) February 28, 2024

Björklöven cracked the zero – in vain

Björklöven also chased to get back into the match, but Djurgården still had good control of the match and did not allow “Löven” to get many hot chances.

In the end, “Löven” took out the goalkeeper and then also managed to get a puck in there Fredric Weigel stayed in front and hit a rebound to break Viktor Andrén’s clean sheet. Their clean sheet then stayed for 119 minutes before they finally got to celebrate again.

It didn’t help, however, as Djurgården was able to hold on to win the match 2-1.

Djurgården has now won six of the last seven games against Björklöven. The result means that DIF looks set to finish at least fifth as they are six points ahead of Björklöven with four games left (for DIF). However, Björklöven only has three games left to play and is five points behind Karlskoga, who are in seventh place.

Djurgården – Björklöven 2–1 (1-0.1-0.0-1)

Djurgården: Kalle Loponen, Olle Liss.
Birch leaves: Fredric Weigel.

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It was an odd goal victory for the home team Djurgården in the match against Björklöven at Hovet. The team won Wednesday’s match in the Hockeyallsvenskan with 2-1 (1-0, 1-0, 0-1).

Djurgården took the lead after 6.55, through Kalle Loponen played by John Norman. After 19.27 in the second period, Olle Liss struck, on passes from Albin Grewe and Linus Eriksson and made it 2-0. 17.11 into the third period, Fredric Weigel hit forward played by Scott Pooley and Jacob Olofsson and reduced for Björklöven. But Björklöven couldn’t take more than that.

Both teams now have two wins and three losses in the last five games, Djurgården with 10–12 and Björklöven with 12–15 in goal difference. This was Djurgården’s 13th odd-goal victory this season. The loss was also Björklöven’s twelfth odd goal loss.

This means that Djurgården remains in fifth place, and Björklöven stays in sixth place, in the table.

On Friday 1 March at 19.00, Djurgården plays away against Almtuna, and Björklöven plays at home against Mora.