The Five Nations tournament in Finland and the Christmas break means that December was not such an intensive month in the SDHL with the table remaining in a similar shape to the previous month.
A tight race for the top
The top five clubs remained tightly packed with only 7 points between them, whilst Djurgården IF and Brynäs IF in sixth and seven continues to close the gap by lag behind because bad starts to the season. Brynäs IF have been buoyed by the return from concussion of Canadian superstar, Jennifer Wakefield. The team have not lost any of the four games they have played 2018 Olympic Silver medalist has scored 10 points (6G+4A) herself.
The bottom three clubs remains the same with only eighth placed AIK in a chance for the final playoff place and SDE Hockey and Gothenburg HC rooted to ninth and tenth respectively.
Ove the next five days we will take a look at each of the top five teams in turn; MODO Hockey, Luleå/MSSK, Linköping HC, HV71 and Leksand IF.
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