Three crowns in hockey / day

On a global scale, Sweden is considered to be quite a small country, with about 10.5 million people living there. However, when it comes to playing hockey, it is counted for the great powers, as the Swedes are claiming medals in every tournament. Iihf.com The data show that our overseas neighbors have a 76,841 registered player. This statistics also include young people (51,609) and the fair sex hockey players (10,908), but there are quite a few (14,234) among adult male pucks to make the race attractive and self -sufficient. And that’s where to do, because Sweden boasts 366 closed hockey halls and another 260 open fields, where training and playing opportunities depend on time whims.

« Quantity leads to quality, » said Ray Bradbury, the famous fantastic novel author. This statement also applies to Swedish hockey, as in this regular season, 97 hockey players with Swedish passports went to the ice in the National Hockey League (NHL). They could theoretically complete four teams and still left. Therefore, in Sweden, unlike Latvia, there is no big stir who will be ready to participate in the championship in the NHL men, but not – unless it is about the biggest stars, who seem to have nothing to interfere with the honor of defending the state unit.

The outflow of Swedish hockey players to North America is ongoing – last year the new players in a meeting event, or the drafts of NHL clubs, watched 22 Swedes. Swedish Hockey Association (Svenska ishockeyförbundet or SIF) is not particularly worried about this because new reserves are made every day, but the local tournament level is not only by those who have not managed to live in North America for some reason, but also talented young people from Denmark and Norway who want to increase their mastery, writes Expressen. Swedish hockey clubs live within their budgets, and players’ wages are not the largest in Europe – for example, in the Russian Continental Hockey League, it is definitely higher, as well as watching the average in the Swiss Higher Hockey League NLA. But money has not been determined, and since 2014, the European Champions Hockey League (though not only the national champions) has won six tournaments, who have lost in the finals for the last three years.

Origins

At the beginning of the 20th century, the most popular winter sports game in Sweden was Bendy (also called Russian hockey or hockey with a ball). The usual first game called Canadian hockey took place in 1912, but this sport has not had a lot of consent – to some extent because of the creation of the pitches, namely, in the installation of Borts, we had to invest more. Expressen. Two years later, World War II began, and while Sweden was a neutral country, it had its influence and hockey’s development stopped.