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Brynäs has left the SHL for the first time ever.
Now club icon Inge Hammarström directs strong criticism towards the favorite team.
– It’s terrible, it hurts, he says to the website Hockeysverige.
For the very first time in the club’s history, Brynäs will no longer play in the SHL and for the first time in 63 long years, the team has gone out of a series. There is much that is historic about Brynäs’ heartbreaking exit from the SHL.
Brynäs the rash
After a few tough years, the coup de grace came on Thursday night when the classic club lost the qualifying game against Malmö with the fourth and final loss on home ice. After a total of 13 SM golds, Brynäs will now gain new momentum in the HockeyAllsvenskan.
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One of the club’s great icons directs great criticism at the way the club has been managed in recent years. Inge Hammarström, who won four SM golds with Brynäs, sees her favorite team.
– There has been poor sporting governance, from top to bottom, for a number of years. That’s what made you end up here. The product on the ice has not been good enough. The table doesn’t lie. They get to take this on. From chairman to board, sports manager and coach. It’s all the way down. That’s what made the guys on the ice not deliver, says the 75-year-old to the website Hockeysverige.
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The great criticism of the icon
Alongside the criticism, Hammarström is extremely saddened to see Brynäs IF leave Swedish hockey’s fine room after so many years at the top.
– It is terrible. I am extremely sorry. I have followed the association for all the years, after my active career, and it was never on the map to end up in this situation. It is very difficult, rarely have I been this sad. It hurts a Brynäshjärta, he says in the interview.
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The hockey legend is also concerned about how Brynäs will get back again and fears that it may take a long time.
– They have a horse’s job ahead of them, from top to bottom. Whether they have a plan B or not I have no idea. But you should have, because it has been shaky for a number of years, says Inge Hammarström to the hockey site.
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