Oscar Alsenfelt had to leave Malmö Redhawks.
Now it is clear that the goalkeeper is ending his career and jumping on a new assignment.
– It felt right, he says.
Oscar Alsenfelt is undoubtedly one of the SHL’s most high-profile goalkeepers. The cage guard has twelve straight seasons in Sweden’s highest hockey league, but had to leave Malmö after the season – to which he belonged since 2015/16.
“Went fast”
The 35-year-old has been without a contract for the past month, but now Oscar Alsenfelt gives a definitive statement about his future. On Wednesday, the goalkeeper announced that the last season was his very last, and is now ending his playing career.
– It went very quickly and it was a bit of a shock for me. I needed some time to land. I quickly realized that I couldn’t see myself playing anywhere else, he tells Sportbladet.
It was Malmö that chose to break Alsenfelt’s contract, and he believes that he found it difficult to see himself playing for any other club.
– It didn’t take long before I felt that if I was going to play, it would be here (in Malmö). In a perfect world I would get to quit on my own terms, but now the industry is what it is and I’ve landed in it.
The new assignment
The goalkeeper has already completed a new assignment. He continues in ice hockey and is the new sports manager for SDHL. This is how he explains his new role:
– It’s about developing the sport in SDHL and being part of the journey they have started. Trying to bring in my skills that I acquired through all the hours spent in ice rinks over the years, he says and continues:
– Broadly speaking, it’s about developing the sport. You have to understand that there are other types of conditions, you have to take new steps commercially and get the product out better. How to develop everything from rules, referees and scheduling. Then it’s also about educating people that women’s hockey is important for the whole movement.
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