Vesterås IK – Nybro Vikings IF 07-03-2025

Now we have arrived at the last match of this year's Hockeyallsvenska. This time the trip goes to ABB Arena Nord, and the home team is Vesterås IK. The team is as usual well down the table. But this match can decide whether this season was a success or not. The team has the opportunity to get into the top 10 with a win here, and that means qualifying for the playoffs. Last year they ended up in the outside place, and in that sense it would be a great success to do so this year.

Today's opponent Nybro Vikings IF is also, as expected, well down the table. But they are already safely placed between 6th-10th place, which means a chance for the playoffs via qualification. The home team has managed to play the most in this one.

Vesterås IK – Motivation is at its peak.

We often talk about motivation when we are going to find playable objects. We can really say that the home team has that in this match. With a win here, the season will most likely be extended, and the team can have the opportunity to reach the playoffs. We can see from the team's websites that it is set for a well-attended match, and the match has long been hyped up for a playoff-hungry Vestrås.

The team has also shown good form recently, and has put itself in this position by taking some important wins here at the end. They just lost solidly away against second-placed Karlskoga, but before that had 3 wins in a row. It reminds us of a team that has something to play for. They are now one point ahead of Almtuna, who meet AIK away in the last round of the series.

That means that if Vesterås wins this one in regular time, Almtuna will have to do the same away against AIK. We don't think that will happen. So everything depends on the team winning this one in regular time. We think that should be motivation enough to take this one.

Nybro Vikings – A match without significance.

Nybro has been ready for the playoff for a while. The position is also clear. They will neither be promoted nor relegated due to the result of this match.

We think the team can save some energy, considering that the next match will be a tough playoff match against Mora or Oskarshamn. Two teams that are better in principle, and the team will probably benefit from being healthy in the first meeting against one of these.

Of course, the team can get carried away when they play without pressure. But we think all efforts are directed towards a playoff. The team has been in good form lately, with 3 wins and 3 losses in the last 6. But this match will still be about who has the most to play for. There is no doubt that it will be the home team.

Conclusion – A team has everything to play for.

With such a high motivation in this match, we will have to try a bet in favor of the home team Vesterås. This match could easily be even, but we believe the motivation of the home team to win in regular time trumps everything, and we will have to try such a bet.

If we look at the internal matches from earlier this season, the teams come out pretty evenly matched here too. Vesterås started by winning the first match away after overtime, with the score 1-2. After that, they won 4-2 at home in a match they controlled well. Then Nybro won the last match when they played at home again with 5-2. We look mostly at the result at home for Vesterås, as they had good control in their one home match.

We will therefore have to follow our gut feeling on this one.

Hockey at 19:00: Vesterås IK – Nybro Vikings: Vesterås IK wins (1.80).