The SDHL is about halfway into the season.
Here are Maria Rooth's three points after the fall:
Luleå's dominance
- They are superior this year.
The table lies a bit there, I almost think there would be even more slack for the teams below.
I think they have an intensity and a kind of mature modern game that no other team can match.
They have a Finnish top dominance that delivers year after year and is a given gold candidate this year as well.
They have also changed coaches during the season, which could have created a little imbalance in the team, but it is hardly noticeable.
Where are the Swedes in the points league?
- About halfway into the series, I would have liked to see three, four, five Swedish names in the top ten - now it's just Emma Nordin and Maja Nylén Persson.
It's still a league dominated by the foreign stars who really are stars and take that spot.
If we are to start winning the toughest and tightest matches internationally, we need more in the internal Swedish top.
It's still something I'm looking for with candles and lanterns really.
I hope more Swedish players dare to take that step and take the place required to get there.
Nest jumbo HV71 – a negative surprise
- I hadn't guessed HV that far down.
It feels like a very thin squad.
They have a lot of young players that I find it difficult to put much of this on.
Players like Mira Jungåker (17 years old) and Jenna Raunio (16 years old)... It's hard to put that responsibility on them.
I think they failed a little in team building.
I don't really know how things are in the association.
I think they previously looked much more stable and stronger as an organization.
They also changed coaches late.
It feels unstable, they have to get their stuff together.
- The bottom segment is a bit exciting this year and the fact that Gothenburg dropped out of the series creates even more pressure on the teams at the bottom.
AIK and HV are quite cemented at the bottom and will find it extremely tough, I think.
CLIP: Modo crushed HV71 6-0 (November 28):
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Modo crushed the table jumbo HV71 - won 6-0