Autograph signing and meeting with the fans in the entrance hall for the association's women's and men's teams, presentation of the new match jersey and a training match where the SHL squad was strengthened with NHL players such as Joel Eriksson Ek, Jonas Brodin and Rasmus Asplund.

In other words, the fact that many FBK supporters joined was not so strange when the official ice premiere was carried out on Wednesday evening.

– It's fantastic that we are up and running, I must say, and that there would be so many people, I did not think, says Mattias Westman, organizer.