Örebro Hockey's season ended a week ago with a semifinal loss to Rögle. The team will remain in the NDHL league next year, a series that forward Clara Eliasson is not impressed by. She describes it as a waste of the autumn for the teams.
Örebro Hockey reached a historic semifinal in the Swedish women's hockey allsvenskan playoffs during the winter, where Clara Eliasson, 25, was one of the team's leading players. The exit against Rögle BK means the team will return to the NDHL in the autumn. Eliasson expresses strong criticism of the series in an interview with hockeysverige.se.
"It feels like teams waste the whole autumn if they have to play there," she says. She emphasizes that the format is not good at all, according to the article title in Nerikes Allehanda.
NDHL is the second-highest division in Swedish women's ice hockey, and Örebro Hockey's placement there next season has caused frustration among the players. Eliasson's words reflect a broader dissatisfaction with the league's structure, though specific changes are not mentioned in the source. The team's performance in the allsvenskan showed potential, but the playoff loss solidifies their position in the lower series.
