"No hockey player should have to feel alone with their mental illness.
No hockey player should risk being subjected to insults or abuse ", write those behind the appeal in a press release.
The initiator of the call "I stand behind you" is Erik Grönberg.
In his book "Not Alone Never Forgotten", he has told of a childhood that was fraught with sexual abuse, anxiety and worry, but where he found refuge in ice hockey.
Now he instead wants to help change the destructive jargon that exists in the hockey culture of ice hockey.
The idea with the appeal, which SHL and the hockey allsvenskan are behind, is to fill social media with positions from players and associations.
"The importance of role models standing behind every person who right now needs it the most is a first step towards change," says Erik Grönberg.