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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Unless I'm mistaken, they're different tiers of the same league in a relegation / promotion system. Teams in Allsvenskan compete to get promoted to the SHL next year.
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I was curious, so I looked it up. There is a promotion/relegation system in place, the bottom two teams in the SHL essentially have to defend their spots against 2 Allsvenskan teams in a best of 7 series.
The top two teams in Allsvenskan (that really needs an abbreviation... AS?) play a best of 3 series, and the winner of that series plays the last place team from the SHL. The loser from the AS top 2 teams plays another best of 3 against the winner of a round-robin tourney involving teams 3-8, and the winner of that moves on to the best of 7 against the 13th placed team in the SHL.