Occasionally, individual players boycott national teams. But that a whole national team does not come into play pretty much never happens.

Tomorrow, the Women's Crowns would have played the season's first tournament in Finland. But the tickets are canceled and Sweden does not show up with any team. It is a unique event in Swedish sports history.

The reason is the great dissatisfaction of the players regarding the compensation and how they feel that they are treated in the national team. The players have compiled ten points that they want to get change around.

This is a news that has spread internationally. A news that also engages our audience in the form of emails, conversations and reactions on social media. The article on svtsport.se that was read most from social media was the Women's Crown boycotted the national team collection.

How long can Anders Larsson avoid answering?

I can't remember that a whole Swedish national team in a major team sport has ever done what the players in the women's crowns now do.

This raises a number of questions. Questions that we obviously want to ask to the one who is most responsible for Swedish ice hockey. Chairman Anders Larsson.

We have repeatedly sought Anders Larsson over the past five days without having wanted to answer our questions. Instead, all our questions are referred to Tommy Boustedt, secretary general of the union, who reports to Anders Larsson.

Tommy Boustedt is obviously knowledgeable and well versed in Swedish ice hockey and also on this issue. But a boycott at this level must be answered by Anders Larsson. Our audience wants and deserves to know what the highest manager in Swedish ice hockey thinks about one of the biggest conflicts in Swedish ice hockey history.

Here are the eight questions we want answers to:

  • How do you view this conflict?
  • What have you done during these days to resolve the situation?
  • What could the union and you as chairman have been able to do to avoid this?
  • As the most responsible for Swedish ice hockey, how do you view the association's handling of the issue in recent days?
  • How does this conflict affect Swedish ice hockey?
  • What are you doing right now to resolve the situation?
  • Why haven't you been available for questions?
  • What do you think this gives signals to young girls thinking about a hockey career?

The question is how long can Anders Larsson avoid answering? And then I wonder how he had handled it all if the country's 43 best men's players had boycotted games in the national team?