and the pair showed their class again during the Playoffs
4-0 and 4-1 in their best-of-seven series against Nykvarns and Pixbo earned Storvreta a place in the Final, while Falun survived a tricky Quarter-Final - 4-3 against Mullsjo - before seeing off Vaxjo Vipers 4-1 in the Semi-Finals
Those victories set up a winner-takes-all clash over 60 minutes in front of over 12,000 fans in Stockholm on Saturday
In an even contest, it took 37 minutes for the first goal to arrive, Emil Ruud was on hand to pick up a loose ball and steer past the goalkeeper
But the setback at the end of the second period had little affect on Storvreta
scoring three times to turn the match on its head
Hampus Nydenfeldt grabbed the equaliser in the seventh minute, before Gabriel Kohonen - son of Storvreta head coach Mika Kohonen - put the Uppsala side in front from a tight angle inside the final six minutes
The win was all but sealed in the final minutes, when Sakarius Ulriksson finished off a counter attack
taking advantage of Falun throwing men forward in desperate search of an equaliser
The side from Dalarna made it 3-2 a matter of seconds later through Emil Johansson
but it was too little too late and Storvreta's party could begin
It's the second time Storvreta have picked up a hattrick of titles
with this trio coming immediately after Falun did the same between 2020-2022
The pair have also won every Superligan title since 2010
Defender Robin Nilsberth was the biggest name of Sweden’s silly season this year
His move from his native Granlo to Uppsala giant Storvreta brought two hungry ones together
Three-time World Champion Nilsberth is still looking for his first Swedish title where Storvreta burn to climb back to the top after a disappointing season
rumours about Granlo’s top defender were bubbling in Swedish press
With World Champion and Svenska Superligan’s top-scoring defenseman playing for a club struggling against relegation and economic problems they could not be avoided
but so was Storvreta who got to publish Nilsberth’s contract in May
“I’ve missed the play-offs for several times in a row and making them is obviously my goal for the coming season
Storvreta had a tough season last year and both the club and the city are packed with lust for revenge
We have lots of talent in the team and I know we’ll be a nightmare to meet for all the teams this year”
One of the Swedish top teams never had a real chance to sign him
An avid Djurgården (football) fan like Nilsberth could never represent Djurgården’s arch rival AIK
Nlsberth´s grandmother was the head coach of cross country skiing distance team in the Nagano Olympic Games in 1998
Robin became an athlete and a top floorball player following the path that so many others did as well
“I started with floorball and football at the age of seven
All my classmates at school started so it was an easy choice to make
It did not take me long to seriously fall for it
but football and floorball were always my main sports.” In Robin Nilsberth’s junior years in Sundsvall in the 1990’s floorball was already growing fast but not fast enough to make floorball players his early idols
“It was always the hockey player Mats Sundin and the football player Steven Gerrard who were my favourites.” To the top with help of clever coachesAt 15
Football was left aside after an injury-ridden season and he decided to focus on floorball
Being admitted to Sweden’s official floorball gymnasium in Umeå topped it all
I put all my effort into becoming as good a floorball player as possible.” The move to Umeå also took Nilsberth from his native club to IBK Dalen
where he played five full season making the final in 2012 and scoring more and more every season
“Certainly there is some talent involved in my development but the most important thing of all is the will to practice a lot and always become better.” Those things combined with my winner mentality have made me the player that I am today,” Nilsberth says
“I see myself as a player who knows all the aspects of floorball
my shot and my eye for the game being my top qualities,” analyses Nilsberth his storng sides
He is well aware that there were some important personalities and coaches
“Magnus Näsman who coached me in the juniors and later in Granlo
Dalen’s Urban Karlsson who gave me lots of responsibility despite of my young age
And then Ulf Hallstensson who challenged me like no one before and got me to take the next step to a new level," expresses Nilsberth his gratitude
Two straight gold medals are no coincidence.Robin Nilsberth was a member of the Swedish juniors’ national team that won the World Championship title in 2007 in Switzerland
It would take time to make the men’s national team
the competition is really tough and it is a big jump from juniors to men’s level
I just had to have patience to keep on developing and try to take my place in the men’s team.” With Granlo making it back to Svenska Superligan in 2012
it was time for Robin Nilsberth to come home
The same year he made his debut in the men’s national team and it was all success from there on
World Champion in 2012 and in 2014 when he scored the big 2-2 equalizer in a power play in the second period
The hard shot whizzed just over Finnish goal Eero Kosonen’s leg ending up right by the far post and exploding the sold-out Gothenburg Scandinavium
“Right now we are a great generation of players born in the end of the 80’s and in the beginning of the 90’s
We play quite entertaining floorball packed with speed and power
Many of us have played together for four years and we know each other completely
Yet the margin are small and the Finns got close to winning last time
But I think we showed our mental strength in the WFC finals.” The base of success is
“We have the most licensed players which gives us more breadth and our league has more good teams which gives us a chance to meet better opposition every week.”
Ambitions in sports as well as in civil careerFor a Swedish top player like Robin Nilsberth
floorball is not his profession but yet it is a lot more than just a hobby
“We practice at five in the afternoons and twice a week in the morning
I have always also worked 100% but after moving to Uppsala I will be able to cut that down to 70%
Still I think it is important to also have a job and I want to succeed in my civil career as well as in floorball
There is still time for the other good things in life
“I spend a lot of my time with my girlfriend and our dog
And I am quite a football fan following my favourites Djurgården and Liverpool.”
Robin Nilsberth has so far played his whole career in Sweden
A move abroad is never out of the question
“There have been offers and I have thought about them
it would be interesting to try combining that with floorball in Switzerland some day
Right now my complete focus is in Storvreta’s success but you never know what will happen in the future,” Nilsberth hints