Mora IK

racing: Michael played his first game for his new team this sunday and scored the 4-0 goal 13 minutes into the second period. A little slow on the skates and not realy sharp with the puck handling but he told the local newspaper that it had to do with a lot of traveling in the past days so we hope that this will be much better when he has been with us for a while.

It would very nice if you could tell us something about him. What can we expect to see from him later on?

Stigsson: In time, Henrich should become the best player on your team. He'll need time for three reasons. Firstly, he'll have to play himself into 'game shape'. He came down with mono during training camp with the Edmonton Oilers and other than practicing, has only played a handful of games at the Deutchland Cup and received limited ice time during 4 games for the Edmonton Oilers farm team, the Hamilton Bulldogs. Secondly, he'll have to adjust to a 'puck possesion' European style game rather than the 'dump and chase' North American style game that he's always played. Thirdly, Henrich has never really been a quick starter. He always seems to need a few games to adjust to his surroundings.
Your assessment regarding him not being very sharp with the puck and his skating seemed slow must be the result of the time zone change and travel. His strengths are:

- he's a strong skater --- not quick --- but strong
- very good hands around the net
- quick accurate release
- above average passer
-'clutch' goal scorer

With everything being so new to him right now, you'll probably have to wait for him to gain some confidence before you see the player I've described above. If you have any specific questions, please ask, I've watched him develop the past 7 years.
I have a few questions for you.
The schedule indicates Mora's next game being Jan 8th, but they are currently playing games. Am I looking at the wrong schedule? Also, are any games televised? Maybe I can pick them up on satellite.

racing:
Thanks a lot for your info about Henrich!
We look forward to the next match against team Huddinge jan 4th.
The two games against Huddinge is friendly games.
You're right about Jan 8th, that's when the
league called "Super Allsvenskan" will start.
I dont think the games in Super Allsvenskan will be televised. Hope somenone can correct me if I wrong here....

If Mora will be qualified to the "qualification league" (Kvalserien) there are a good chance that some games will be televised.

racing: Just to explaine to you how the system works I will try to make it clear for you (Its not so easy to understand even for us who speaks swedish).

Before Xmas we played in something called "Allsvenskan", that is the swedish second league just under the elite league (Elitserien). That league i devided in two part north and south.
The best four teams from allsvenskan north and the best four from allsvenskan south now will meet in something called "Superallsvenskan" starting januari 8.

The best two teams from "Superallsvenskan" automaticly is qualifyed to "kvalserien" qualification league.
The teams placed 3d to 6th will go into play-off against eight more teams from "Allsvenskan" (total 14 teams) for two places in the qualification league.
Team 7-8 is finished for this season and vill go back to play in "allsvenskan" again next year.
Finally the last two places inte the qualification league is taken by the last two teams in the elite league.

When we have come this far we will have a qualification league with six teams that will play for two places in next years elite lague.

Hope you understand something of what I have been writing. If not please feel free to ask more questions.