According to Timrå's match hero Magnus Pääjärvi, the tactics were something the team had planned in advance.

Something that trainer Anderas "Ante" Karlsson confirms to Sundsvall's newspaper.

- I think it's so damn boring to watch the three-on-three game.

The players are just tired and nothing happens, people want to see goals, he told the newspaper.

When asked if he wasn't afraid that the tactic would instead result in an Örebro goal in an open box, the coach replies:

- Of course that risk always exists, but the probability is greater that we will score when we have four fresh players with puck control out on the ice and the opponents three tired players.

It was fun and fun that it worked.

Örebro's player Mathias Bromé was amazed after the match, which Timrå won 3-2.

- I have not been part of it before.

I didn't think you were allowed to do it, but they did it and succeeded, he says.

Here, Timrå picks out the goalkeeper from under the fog - and wins

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Here Timrå picks out the goalkeeper in the mud - and wins Photo: C More/Bildbyrån