The reason for the strange game schedule is because the game schedule is set in different steps.

1. The Swedish Ice Hockey Association makes a basic lottery that is based on a pair lottery, where two teams are drawn together. The two teams meet the same team from another pot during the same weekend.

- Why doing this is about an economic issue, where many girls have jobs and studies so then we have to play weekend. We (HV71) do not go to Luleå on a Wednesday.

2. Then the clubs go in and check on their draw and look at how it is with arenas, where SHL and hockeyall Swedes take place because of the commercial interest.

- This particular step has made it extra special for HV this year. For example, Leksand, Brynäs and HV71 want to play in our own arenas and not in the training arena. This should sync up against the hockey general Swan and SHL and if we play the same day it is almost impossible. It is about spectators, where the gentlemen have several thousand and the ladies a few hundred.

3. Because there are many foreign players in the SDHL right now, the league wants to take into account national team breaks where some national teams have the desire to bring their players home in time.

"Must review system"

- Some national teams may want to gather some day earlier than the international rules say and then we try to meet it. It may not seem that our union is right, but the clubs think it is important and then we choose not to place any matches on a Sunday if they have national team gathering on Monday.

This is not a new phenomenon in SDHL and one of HV71's players who participated in this earlier is the new acquisition Anna Borgqvist.

- We try not to put any focus on it, it's nothing we can do about it. For me personally, it actually gets better this year because I have to finish my studies until Christmas, then I am free, says Borgqvist and continues:

- At the same time, you have to review the system and change it somehow. This happened when I was in Brynäs and then we pointed it out. Now it happens again, but I hope it will not be the third time.

Does not happen in SHL

This is something that does not happen in SHL. Of this year's game schedule to read, Malmö is the team that will play the most away games in a row, five in a row, in mid-January as the handball European Championships are played in Malmö Arena.

- In SHL, no pottery takes place, where lottery is matched for match and where they travel when needed, says Bengtsson and continues:

- We think it's sad for our fans, for our players and then we can choose to whine or say "okay, so here it is, now we drive, this does not affect us negatively", and we have chosen that path.

How will you do to avoid this in the future?

- We must probably join in earlier and even better in some way. Then it is not just SHL and the hockey general Swan that we should take into account, it is a lot of events in the arenas. Now the focus is on getting started this season, then we have to take it when the season is up. But now we have this with us and will do better.

- You have to make it a thing and bring some extra coffee and such, says Borgqvist.