The reigning champions Luleå have not convinced at all so far.
Last year's finalist Brynäs won the basic series in superior style, but they are not completely impossible to raw.
For the first time in a long time, it is set for a somewhat uncertain SDHL playoffs.
- It will be an exciting final game, it feels like the top has become a little wider this year.
Before, there have been two teams that are known to be in the final, but it is more uncertain this year.
A superb that Luleå, for example, has not delivered at the top of the basic series, this will be a very interesting final game with three or four teams that can be there as winners in the end even if Brynäs are favorites, says Maria Rooth.
She is supported by Modos Lina Ljungblom:
- It may not be surprising if Brynäs wins some matches but I think it has leveled off significantly this season, now in the playoffs it will be very interesting to see how it ends.
In previous years, it has been almost known who will go on and so on, but that is no longer the case, says Ljungblom, who, together with his Modo, was close to soaping Brynäs there at the beginning of March.
- That effort meant a lot for self-confidence, if I had not incurred an unnecessary expulsion at the end of that match, I think we would have actually won.
We played well pretty much the whole match so we take that with us into the playoffs.
In the quarter finals, Modo will face Ljungblom's former club, HV71.
- Both I and the others in the team probably feel a little revenge after the quarterfinal loss last year.
It's a little extra special for me to meet them but it will be great fun, it will usually be fun matches when we meet them, she says.