Over the last few days, information about a planned boycott by the Swedish women’s team—Damkronorna, or the Damkronor—has trickled across the internet. Our colleagues at The Ice Garden have a fantastic summary of how Team Sweden got to this place. In short, the Damkronor have been undersupplied, underdeveloped, and far beyond underpaid, and sometimes worse; they’re now striking, like the USWNT did in 2017, in the hopes of getting that corrected. Do go check out Meredith Foster’s article at TIG; it’s fantastic and thorough, written by someone who’s been following and writing about Nordic women’s hockey for years and has all the background to hand.
Filip Forsberg, Mattias Ekholm voice support for Damkronorna’s #ForFrämtiden movement
