Christian Gustafsson has been monitoring IK Oskarshamn since the late 90s.
That the team would reach the position they are in today is not something he had even dared to guess a few years ago.
- They were once a bit of the country's worst hockey team and have made it all the way through third, second and first, on to the hockey allsvenskan, then SHL.
And now go to the playoffs and be in the quarterfinals and be one of Sweden's best hockey teams.
This, of course, is completely unlikely and should not happen.
But now it happened, he says.
Can pinch the win
What does this mean for you as a sports reporter?
- It is of course so much more fun to watch teams as it goes well, but you also notice that the interest in the team is great from many.
It is emigrants from the city who are interested, it is people from other cities who are interested in the team.
And as a newspaper, we become a bit of a campfire that people gather around to follow the team.
How do you think it will go then, now the best of seven matches against Rögle awaits?
- Rögle is the better team, but you do not know.
Maybe that Oskarshamn can pinch the win in the home match in Oskarshamn now on Saturday, but otherwise I probably think that Rögle will win 4-1.