Last night a very fun tournament started with the NHL Four Nations Face-Off in Canada and the U.S.. Sweden – Finland – USA – Canada are the participating countries and first out was Sweden vs. Canada. We stood up very well and managed to take the game to overtime where we unfortunately lost. But, 1p in the pot.
I would love to see the games but since it is in North America the games are played in the middle of the night. Sweden vs. Finland takes place on Saturday at 7 PM but then we are having dinner with my sister and her husband before the song contest starts at 8 PM. So, it will be tricky to follow. A good practice tournament before the world championships in May, to get the team together.
Hockey 4 Nations
Middle round
Tonight the middle round for our group starts and we are facing the highest ranked team to begin with. We have brought three points with us from the group play which is a great start. Fingers crossed we will end up top two so we go thru to the next round.
Short day today and quite a hectic start. A lot of things happened at the same time and then nothing happened for a while. Typical day at my office. Ups and downs. Got in a bit early so I left a few minutes early too. Now I’ve enjoyed some leftovers from the liver stew and I have some time to relax before I’ll start dinner. Going to make burgers I think. Then I’ll watch the game on TV.
PS! It was a very tight game and we almost made it. But it was a level score with 37-37. A Swedish goal one second too late for victory.
Bronze .. close but not this year
This years edition of the World Junior Championship has come to an end. Our guys put up a great fight and today they are playing for the bronze towards Czechia.
Our junior ladies are also playing in the WW18 top division right now with one win and one loss so far. One more game to go before quarter final. Since there is only 8 teams playing (two groups of four) – all teams go thru to the quarters. Important to play well in the group in order to be faced with a less difficult opponent.
Another sunny and cold day – hubby is working on various projects. Not sure what I’m going to do today – time will tell. Another hopefully fun evening watching hockey awaits.
PS! A very exciting game which led to overtime which led to penalty shots .. 14 from each team before finally the Czechs managed to win. Wow. Well played congratulations to the 4th place.
Quarter final
Today we tried a new car model – we have tried a few so far. Looking for an alternative for us to buy in a year or two and we are just trying to figure out which one we want next.
Afterwards we went to IKEA to buy a few things and then we went to the new grocery store – Matvärlden – to take a look around and also buy some food. There we found these Turkish and Arabic baklava and delights. Mmm.
This afternoon we went for a long walk together all three of us in the lovely sunny weather. It’s been very cold though with -8C this morning. Our youngest is working today and tomorrow.
Now I’m tucked in my corner cheering on our junior pride and joy playing the quarter finals towards Latvia. Hopefully we will play the same great game we have been so far and manage to go thru to the semi. Fingers crossed!
PS! We managed to win 3-2… But it was a close call. Hua.
Junior hockey
So far we have played two games – both games won first towards Slovakia and then Kazakhstan. Tonight we are facing Switzerland and so far we are in a comfortable lead 5-1 in the second period. We are facing Czechia in the last game in the group play on New Years eve. Then the real struggle begins with the quarter final.
I have not done much use today – just relaxing and getting food on the table for the troops. Spent the day in my corner and watched the rest of the “Kejsarinnan”-series (The Empress) on Netflix. Season two. Loved it!
Sixth game
Don’t know what happened to winter and the winter wonderland we could enjoy a while back. Now it’s raining and no snow left..Very dark too even with all the advent lights.
Had a lovely lunch in town with my colleague before I headed back home. Now I’ve done some laundry and started to figure out what to feed the troops for dinner.
Tonight our ladies are playing their sixth and final game in the group play in Champions League. This time facing Pölten – the only team they have beaten so far. Fingers crossed we will manage to win again tonight. That would be a great finish.
WE WON!!! 2-1! Well deserved, Hammarby was the better team.
Fifth game
Tonight there will also be a special celebration after the game when they will tribute one of our players – Ellen Gibson – who is playing her last home game for Hammarby after a whole life in the green/white jersey. Some even call her “Mrs Hammarby”!
Another player is also doing her last game – Jonna Andersson – after a couple of years with us. She is returning to her original club where she started her carrier. She has been a great contribution to our team and is also representing Sweden in our national team.
We will watch the game from home since it is such a late game and a workday tomorrow. The result ; 18746 attending and a 3-0 loss
Competing at Hyrox – 
This morning the alarm woke us up at 6AM so that we could make it in time to the registration of the Hyrox competition my hubby had signed up for. Puh. Of course I came along to cheer him on and give my support.
There was about 8000 people participating over the weekend – all divided into different slot times to spread out the start groups. Hubby started at 09.40 – first out a 1k run – then 8 different stations (1000m SkiErg / 50m Sled Push / 50m Sled Pull / 80m Burpee Broad Jump / 1000m Row / 200m Farmers Carry / 100m Sandbag Lunges / Wall Balls ) with a 1k run in-between each one of them.
1 hrs 40 minutes 37 secs later, he finished as number 6 in his age-group among the athletes today and 26 place out the 37 in his age-group from the whole weekend. Rank 901 in total of the almost 1100 male athletes. Not bad for a first attempt! So proud of him!
Fourth game
Our team has really made an effort to sell as many tickets as possible to give our ladies the best support. Before the game over 22 000 tickets were sold and 20 428 people attended the game! New record! The roof top of the arena is closed due to the snowy, cold and windy weather. Good choice!
A very tight first period with the only goal from our guests. Now we need to step up for the second period in order to get the three points we so desperately need.
Two quick goals in the start of the second period – Hammarby doing the first and then the 2-1 goal by Manchester City. This is the end result unfortunately – but, boy, our ladies played very well!
Third game
What a difference in the weather today compared to yesterday. Quite cold but sunny and clear blue sky. So nice!
Our new heater took some extra work to get it in place so they worked on it almost all day. Puh. Hopefully it will be a noticeable change in the cost of electricity after this upgrade. And that it will work like a clock for many many years from now.
We have a lot of supporters who have traveled to England for the game. Great support might give them the extra boost!
We ended up loosing the game 2-0, but we gave them a good fight and stood up really well. Good vibes for the home-game next week.