At a press conference it was announced that it is not yet clear with a Swedish KHL teams.
The promoters, however, is hopeful about games in the fall.
– We are trying to get to it this year, says Leif R Carlsson.
given the recent speculation surrounding the Swedish KHL team under the name Crown called the initiators of the press conference on Friday morning, to clarify how everything looks right now.
Behind the project is the former Rögle- and Malmö player Anders Svensson, the former Sodertalje player Leif R Carlsson Sodertalje former chairman Nils Andersson. Where the latter will have the role of chairman of the club.
“I was a bit skeptical”
A Swedish KHL teams are still not clear but the founders are hopeful.
– we have worked with several agents and it depends a little on the issues we have up on the board here if we dare to press the start button fully, says Anders Svensson, before adding:
– But we are ready to put a team on the legs in the fall.
Even Leif R Carlsson confirmed that their hope is to get to a Swedish KHL team to fall.
– We are trying to get to it in year. I was a bit skeptical if you could do it, but if it comes to a deadline that is too difficult you have to take it from there.
According to the initiators, the issues between the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, the Swedish Ice Hockey Association and the KHL not yet are solved. If there is to be a Swedish team in the KHL is required that the club receive confirmation that they may stand in the league – which they should get from both the KHL themselves as the Russian Federation. Hockey reaction: “What’s happening …?”
Do not need the union’s permission
– KHL have the ball, we do not know how they think, says Leif Carlsson R before continuing.
– it does not feel like it’s a legal issue but it is a political issue right now.
NHL legend Anders Hedberg commented on the press conference in Sportbladet TV.
– the name was good, but otherwise it was too many unanswered questions.
at a yes from KHL club announced that they received preliminary yes from a ten players and that the talks with Bengt-Ake Gustafsson regarding training role, but that Pär Mårts was the first choice.
– maybe we should not win the first year, but we’ll make sure to be on top after a few years, says Leif Carlsson R.
in the past, the rumors around that a Russian billionaire to go into the club but it denied. Instead
They also announced that they have hopes of cracking both the Swedish and the KHL’s attendance record in the first home game.
First home game Sept. 10
When they are not members of the Swedish Ice Hockey association has been up to the association and the KHL to join the league, the union has no say in the matter.
– we do not need support, but would be grateful for support.
the Swedish Ice Hockey Association announced on Friday that they do not support a Swedish KHL teams.
– League starting in general is that we believe in a model with a strong national leagues and club teams play at championship level, said the chairman Anders Larsson in a press release.
If the Crown will become the eighth country Sweden with a team in the KHL. There is already the clubs from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Croatia, Slovakia and Finland in the league.
If the Crown becomes reality, the idea is that they will play their first away game on August 20, with the first home game September 10, against CSKA.
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