The goal in the Hockeyallsvenskan is now spread in North America – no one grasps anything when the player stops in front of goal

Free position and open goal.
Then the lyre player in the Hockeyallsvenskan suddenly stops – and stands with the puck in front of goal for several seconds.
The action has reached North America and the strange event is now spreading like wildfire.

It is not often that events from the Hockeyallsvenskan get attention outside Sweden. But now it has happened. And that is the least strange incident between Troja-Ljungby and AIK last winter.

Stops suddenly

The Stockholm club sat on a comfortable lead while the home team was desperately looking for a reduction towards the end of the first period. Then Troja picked the goalkeeper – whereupon AIK got hold of the puck.

It is Max Lindholm, who recently finished for Skellefteå in the SHL, who takes the puck all over the ice. Everyone expects him to just put it in an empty goal cage – but then the forward suddenly stops.

He stands with the puck in front of goal for several seconds and waits for a teammate, Malte Setkov, who arrives.

Spread like wildfire

Then Setkov pokes the puck a little easily, gets a free assist point before Lindholm sends it into goal. The unusual event has now been noticed in North America, and by one of the world’s biggest hockey podcasts “Spittin ‘Chiclets”.

They write:

“He had to give his polar bear an apple”, which is slang for assist in hockey language.

The action took place at the end of January earlier this year, but it is not until now that it gets proper attention. In just a few hours, thousands of Twitter users had liked and shared the clip.