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Date of upload: Premiered Apr 11, 2024 ^^
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TWO of the greatest goal tenders in the NHL has played in Frölunda. Henrik "The King" Lundqvist (New York Rangers) and Fredrik Andersen (Carolina Hurricanes). The latter used to play for Toronto Maple Leafs, as well ;)
Edit 1: The indian chief you can see on the jerseys of the fans is the old logo. The team used to be called Frölunda Indians before a woman with native American ancestors thought it was offensive, the case got reviewed by a native American association and they deemed it not racist. The team changed the logo and name anyway, in 2021.
Skellefteå AIK (SAIK) is not associated with AIK, the team from Stockholm. SAIK stands for Skellefteå Allmänna IdrottsKlubben. It's a franchise with the same logo for both hockey and football. AIK IF stands for Allmänna IdrottsKlubbens IshockeyFörening. AIK is also a sports franchise from Stockholm with the same logo for different sports such as hockey and football.
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AIK stands for Allmänna Idrotts-Klubben which basically means "general sports club". It's almost like a sports version of inc. If you know what I mean. You can see abbreviations for hockey like HK, soccer FK or BK, and general sports as SK or IK. H=Hockey, F=Football, B=Ball, S=Sports, I=Athletics and so on.
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Back in the mid 90's, many SHL (then SEL) teams added English words to their names. If I recall correctly it was encouraged by the league in order to try to increase viewership by making Swedish hockey feel a bit more Americanized. Frölunda went with, eh, Frölunda Indians for some reason. A name they kept until 2021! Djurgården was Djurgården Lions for a while. Some others were Bofors Bobcats, HV71 Blue Bulls (🤣), and Oskarshamn Atomics. Many teams later dropped the English word.
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Cool that you came to my hometown and saw "my" team.
Frölunda was Very lucky to get away with a win on that one...but it was needed!
And I must say that the stick save was probably the sickest save I have Ever seen.
Lets hope he dosent do any more of those 😁
Scandinavium is a pretty massive arena...but also old. And there is a lot of other activites in it.
Thats why there are those pretty big gaps between the ice and spectators.
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Frölunda were referred to as "Wild West" ever since the lovely, crazy Canuck brothers Mott played for the team in the 70s. In the 90s, the teams in SHL chose a name similar to NHL teams. Luleå Bears, Färjestad Wolves and so on. Frölunda had to pick something related to the Wild west., so they chose Indians. Frölunda Indians was perhaps the only name in the league that really stuck, so it remained until a few years ago. They finally removed the Indian after the discussion about team names from North America came here.
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The arenas are usually multipurpose, not just for hockey. So the boards can be dismantled easily and floors can be placed over the ice to host a concert or w/e. It can be setup and dismantled in less than a few hours. If you ever go to a hockey only arena, you get seats close to the boards or can even stand up against the boards.
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The native american on the logo is from back in the 80s when SHL and the NHL did a crossplatform. Alot of swedish teams got "American style" names including Frölunda (Indians).
Not that long ago Frölunda removed the old logo after a native american woman sued them. She lost that case though as Frölunda had an "ok this logo isn't racist" from the Native American Association from back in the day. They did change the logo even though they won, because times have changed and stuff that weren't offensive back then might be percieved as offensive now.
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@Gurupimp10
1 month ago
The Beer "Sofiero" is one of the worst beers that you can buy in Sweden.
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