The Swedish Ice Hockey Association's disciplinary committee believes that the match penalty for "physical abuse of official" was correctly imposed, but settles for giving Lagerberg a reprimand to follow the applicable rules in the future.
"There has not been a direct intention to hit the referee and the physical contact is relatively light, and attempts have been made to mitigate the impact of the collision (mitigating)", writes the disciplinary committee.
Björklöven's coach Björn Hellkvist was furious that Lagerberg received a match penalty for the offense at all.
Then you shouldn't be refereeing ice hockey. That kind of thing happens on the ice. It wasn't intentional. He barely touched him, he said to TV4.
