Rögle lost 1-4 at home against SHL jumbo Oskarshamn – despite a large advantage in the first two periods. At the final whistle, the home team was booed off by the crowd in the Catena Arena. Rögle is still third last in the SHL.
Here are Gustav Lundblad’s five impressions from the match.
1. A typical Rögle loss in the fall of 2023
Rögle–Oskarshamn was something of a condensate of Rögle’s season.
The team in green and white has to work and toil for every goal, more than the opponents who are also offered a lot.
That’s how it’s been all season and that’s how the story was also about this shock match in the Catena Arena.
Oskarshamn, with SHL debutant Tingsryd loanee Tomas Rydén in the coffers, silenced an almost full ice rink.
Jumbo beat the favorite.
The season of failure continues.
There is a crisis in Rögle.
2. Rydén took shot after shot
During the first half of the match, it looked as expected in Ängelholm. A defensive Oskarshamn tried to resist, but were pushed down, pushed out, by a jagged Rögle.
But it doesn’t matter when the puck doesn’t go in.
After a promising start for the visitors, it was Rögle for all the money. In an intense early Powerplay, they fired seven shots on goal and Oskarshamn was in their low box throughout the entire two-minute suspension.
Daniel Zaar thundered on with shot after shot from his wing position.
If 30-year-old SHL debutant Tomas Rydén didn’t stand in the way of Oskarshamn’s goal, it was Oskarshamn’s slopes or the puck went wide.
The shots in the first period were 17-5 and then Oskarshamn also covered another seven shots.
In the second period, Simon Ryfors dunked the puck into Rydén’s goal. Adam Tambellini charged again and again. No goals.
• The last two seasons have Adam Tambellini scored 47 goals in 88 games.
• Latest Simon Ryfors played in Rögle, he scored 25 goals in 51 games.
• Last year did Daniel Zaar 12 goals in 40 games.
Now more than half the season has been played and Tambellini stands on 6 goals, Ryfors on 4 and Zaar (who “only” played 19 games) on 2.
As good an illustration as any of this team’s goaltending woes.
3. Bowlby-Sjödin-Sundsvik
One thing works in Rögle. The fourth chain.
On Boxing Day, Linus Sjödin scored the first goal of the season, Rögle’s only, in Växjö (1–2). Tonight it was he who gave the team the lead, with a fine shot up the crossbar.
That goal seemed to melt the ice in the Catena Arena – it came in a situation when Oskarshamn with effective defense conjured away a number of minutes and calmed down the home forcing. Now would RBK just parade this home? (The answer was no)
At least he looks hot every time he’s out on the ice, Sjödin. And the forward player, the newly arrived American Henry Bowlby in November, has a flying skating style – and as Sjödin said about the assist in the TV interview during the break:
– A fantastic pass. I was a little surprised myself that I got it so perfectly on the blade.
Considering how Rögle’s other chains deliver, this duo, together with Albin Sundsvik, should get more playing time in the future.
4. Oskarshamn’s simple goal
While Rögle’s efficiency is too poor, opponents have often found it easy to score goals.
Just a little over a minute after Sjödin’s promising lead goal, Lukas Jasek equalized with a sharp shot from the edge – it did not look unattainable for Czech compatriot Petr Kvaca in the RBK box.
When Rögle were to decide the match in the third, they went on two simple counterattacks:
• Hynek Zohorna fri. 1-2 after 1:11.
• Puck drop by Lukas Ekeståhl Jonsson outside offensive blue: Counterattack for Austin Wagner and 1–3 after 3:29.
Green and white players paralyzed, the crowd silent, everyone in a state of shock.
A seemingly beaten Rögle went on an expulsion due to too many players on the ice.
Roger Hansson took a timeout and picked out the goalkeeper early. Almost immediately: 1–4 in an empty box.
When the final whistle came, it had boos with it.
A night of nightmares in the Catena Arena.
5. Crisis in Rögle
A few weeks ago, Rögle made the bold (?) decision to photograph coach Cam Abbott and athletic director Chris Abbott.
We got to see a “Roger Hansson effect”, as I called it myself, when Rögle fought down in-form Växjö away and won on penalties.
Since then there have been two losses and Rögle’s game and problems look almost EXACTLY as before.
Afterwards, Anton Bengtsson spoke on TV that you simply create too little going forward, for example in the four Powerplays that Rögle had at 0-0. I took it to mean that he felt that the many shots in the Powerplay simply come from the wrong – all too innocuous – positions.
That sounds reasonable. Rögle’s shooting percentage in the SHL is 9 percent. It is clearly the worst in the league. Today’s opponent Oskarshamn is second with 22 percent, the median is 14 percent.
The facts are that this condemned Oskarshamn is now “only” nine points behind Rögle, third last in the table. The distance to a play-off place is still less than the distance to a negative qualification – victory in the derby against Malmö on Saturday could mean tenth place already by the New Year.
But the fact that Rögle is in this part of the table at all after 28 games played is of course somewhat sensational.
Rögle doesn’t want that, they tread water instead of floating over the ice.
Time will tell if the change of coach was right, but tonight we can only state that the crisis continues and that much seems to look the same as before.
Rögle BK–IK Oskarshamn 1–4
(0–0, 1–1, 0–3)
Second period:
1–0, 15:16, Linus Sjödin (Henry Bowbly, Albin Sundsvik)
1–1, 16:26, Lukas Jasek (Ahti Oksanen, Oscar Engsund)
Third period:
1–2, 1:11, Hynek Zohorna (Nick Olesen, Niclas Burström)
1–3, 3:29, Austin Wagner (Ahti Oksanen)
1–4, 16:19, Olli Palola (Nick Olesen, Oscar Engsund) (tom bur)
Shots: 33–22 (17–5, 8–7, 8–10)
Expulsions: Rögle 1 x 2 min. Oskarshamn: 5 x 2 min.
Public: 6310
Photo: Bildbyrån
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2023-12-28 21:45:00
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