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Old 05-27-2008, 10:32 AM
empa35 empa35 is offline
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Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
I really need help deciding what to do for hockey this year!

Hi guys, I've got a decition to make that I really fell I need help on.
It's like this:

I play for KIK, a Junior 20 Div.1 team in Sweden. Our senior team plays Div.1 to, which is the 3 highest level of senior hockey in Sweden. As of now, I'm the third stringer for the senior team, which means if they need a goalie for a practise or if someone gets injured, I will get called up. It happened once last season and that 1 month really improved my game.

Now I've got an offer to go on a loan transfer to another senior team that plays Div.2 (i.e. 4th division). That means I will still belong to KIK but I will play next season in the other club, and probably be the no.1 goalie on the team.
However, this will mean that I loose my position as third stringer in KIK to another guy who will probably get signed by them to take my spot on the junior team.
If someone gets injured it will be he who gets called up to the Div.1 team, not I.

If I choose the Senior Div.2 team, that will probably mean about 20-35 games against pretty hard opponents and a lot of shots on my net because they will probably have some troubles keeping up with the other teams and struggle to stay in Div.2.
If I choose to stay, I will get about 18-20 games (21 game season) and be on a team that is in the top of the league and hopefully gets to play a qualifying round to get into J20 Elit.

So my question is, what would you guys do if you were in my shoes?
Would you stay and hope that one of the higher level senior team gets injured and meanwhile play for the junior team at a lower level?
Or would you accept the loan and play for the weaker senior team and give up that small but existing posibillity of maybe be called up but at the same time get more quality shots on you and play at a higher level?

I would really appreciate any advice on this one guys as I really don't know what to do!
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