Stomach flu ahead of crucial match – key player missing

On Tuesday evening, Modo will play the season's most important match so far in SHL ice hockey.

Two of the team's key players, defenseman Mattias Norlinder and center Sam Vigneault, will be missing. This is reported by Örnsköldsviks Allehanda.

They have stomach problems. Yes, you can probably write stomach flu, says sports manager Henrik Gradin to the newspaper.

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Modo is struggling at the bottom of the table, and tonight's meeting with second-to-last HV71 is a so-called six-point match – and can be decisive for whether the Ö-vik team will continue to have contact with the teams above.

For the time being, the table's bottom team has two points up to Linköping above the relegation line.