With Anders Lindegaard, Kalle Joelsson and Alexander Nilsson away, young Ian Pettersson had to jump into the Helsingborg goal.
And it only took twelve minutes before he was allowed to concede his first Allsvenskan goal.
Goals and assists by Svensson
Muamer Tankovic shot and the ball went into the crossbar and both posts before Imad Khalili could nod the ball into the open goal.
But Helsingborg would scratch itself.
Max Svensson equalized to 1-1 just two minutes into the second half.
Although Hammarby took back the lead through Aron Johansson, Helsingborg did not give up.
With 17 minutes left, Alex Timossi Andersson ran to a good position in the penalty area and made it 2-2 on Max Svensson's fine pass.
Hammarby pressed for a victory goal - but 2-2 the match stood out.
An important point for Helsingborg in the bottom battle.
But coach Olof Mellberg wanted more.
- If we had done a little better, we could have run over them.
But we neglected a lot in the simple.
We had good locations for three sticks.
But as the match looked, a draw was a pretty fair result, Mellberg tells Dplay.
"It's deplorable"
Hammarby coach Stefan Billborn was at least disappointed afterwards.
- It's sad.
We made a very bad effort, but still think we should win this match clearly anyway.
The goals we let in are absolutely horrible.
It's a disaster, Billborn told Dplay after the match.