The 6th October – The Hockey Team Tumba and Nynäshamn will meet at Ishuset in Sweden. On the surface it is just an Opening Game in Swedish Division 2… However from a Spanish point of view this game is a little bit special… In Tumba this year plays Dorian Donath Sanchez, a player who has been incremental for Spains promotion to IIHF Div 1 the last years and also a player who have played for Nordic Vikings. In Nynäshamn this year is the Majadahonda player Pablo Mata playing and Nordic Vikings partner in Spain… The game could be watch live at https://www.svenskhockey.tv/sv/game/6abc98068775e6f41607b9c8
The Arena Ishuset is a lttle bit special – It is a two rink Arena – However it is most known for ” The Honourable Day of Ice Hockey 2010 – when it honoured one of the biggest Swedish Sport Icons – Sven Tumba in Tumba. Tumba won three WC in Ice Hockey for Sweden, Olympic Silver, tried NHL in Boston and won 8 Swedish Championships in Ice Hockey for Djurgården. However he was also Swedish Champion and National Teamplayer in Football and the man behind the rise of the Golf Sport in Sweden among a lot of other things he did in his entrepreneurial life.
One of the people that took part in the honouring was Ulf “Lill Pröjsarn” Nilsson and Anders Hedberg two Legends from Winnipeg Jets and New York Rangers. Ulf Nilsson and also Kent “Magic” Nilsson – known in Spain for his legendary year in Spain when Majadahonda become Champions has there heritage from Nynäshamn…
Back in 2010 the Honoring of Sven Tumba in Tumba, became the start of Swedish Hockey Hall of Fame – when he later was the first inductee postumt as he passed away a year later. The Event as such was created by me, then vice President and the President Ronny Glysing in Botkyrka / Best Perka
La Liga Season without Nordic Vikings, but with 2 teams from Madrid and Jaca as main favourite at the moment.
The La Liga season has now started with 8 Teams – as Porto and Logrono is not playing this year. Also Nordic Vikings and Huarte (Pamplona) will not play. This year I will hold Jaca as the primarily favourite with the Spanish star Jamie Capillas in his prime leading a quite complete Team. As runner up it will be Barcelona, Puigcerda, Majadahonda and Txuri Hrudin. Last year runner up Txuri Hrudin (San Sebastian) have signed Nils Julian Edström from Puigcerda and that will of course strengthen their ambitions for the title. Puigcerda has added a Ukraine player to their Russian star Player Ignat Zemchenko… I think we all hope that is a signal for piece. Barcelona have got their new Ice venue and John Wedin and his Majadahonda will certainly be there to compete. However the most exciting thing in La Liga this year will be the battle for the the runner up to reach play off as one of them will be left out. So the line to play off will probably increase competition in many games. At the moment I can not see Madrid, Tartalo (Vitoria Gasteiz) and Andorra compete on the same level as the others, but it will create a lot of exciting games between them…
