From a high spot in the Avicii arena, Håkan Södergren analyzes in the program point "Håk-eye" from the Ice Hockey World Championship.
A segment that came a few years after the Djurgården legend entered the TV screen in 1990.
But after 35 years as an expert, the 65-year-old feels it's enough.
In the same arena where his national team career ended with the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1989 in the newly built Globe, he is now ending his TV career.
I think it fits pretty well. It's almost like you get to write your own little biography and then finish it at the right time. Then I've also gotten the opportunity to decide when I myself should stop, which maybe isn't granted to everyone, says Södergren.
"Start in good time"
I'll turn 66 this summer, which means that if you're going to be able to enjoy your pension in a decent way, you should probably start in good time too. So I think it feels right, simply, says the hockey profile who now gets time over for golfing and family.
Södergren has a hard time bringing up memories from his TV career that stand out.
Do you instead have a "frog" that you remember?
I've probably repressed them even more, laughs the 65-year-old.
There have always been those. I've probably said that a Swedish lead would be safe as a bank vault sometime. But it wasn't, it turned out.
"Two gold records at home"
Besides Södergren's solid player career and long role as an expert, many associate his face with the ice hockey song "Nu tar vi dom" – Tre Kronor's battle song for the home World Championship 1989.
I hear the song in every ice rink I come to, still. So it's with me whether I want it or not, he laughs.
Before that song, I had only sung snaps songs. But now suddenly have two gold records at home on the wall.
How do you imagine your farewell on TV?
I'll just slowly but surely float away. I see myself, the last evening at the World Championship, sitting on the ice machine in the Globe and just riding into the sunset.
June 14, 1959, 65 years old, in Rosersberg.
Clubs: Djurgårdens IF (14 seasons), Huddinge IK (one season).
Merits: World Championship gold, two Olympic bronze, four SM gold, Guldpucken as the Elite League's best player.
Other: Has had his jersey number, 22, retired by Djurgården.
