Hockeyettan
Hockeyettan (or HockeyEttan, known as Division 1 from 1944 to 2014) is the third tier of ice hockey in Sweden. As of the 2015–16 season, the league consists of 48 teams divided geographically into four groups. Hockeyettan operates a system of promotion and relegation with HockeyAllsvenskan and Division 2.
From 1944 to 1975, Division 1 was the highest league in the Swedish ice hockey system, but with the creation of Elitserien (now the SHL) in 1975, it became the second tier. Division 1 was further relegated to third-tier status in 1999 as HockeyAllsvenskan was spun off into a standalone league. The league was renamed Hockeyettan for the 2014–15 season.
Hockeyettan is organized by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association.
Format
As of the 2015–16 season, the league consists of 48 teams divided into four groups of 12 geographically. The clubs meet each other twice, home and away, after which the top four teams from each group form two new groups of eight. Teams 1–4 from Hockeyettan North and East/West form Allettan North, while teams 1–4 from Hockeyettan South and West/East form Allettan South. The East and West groups change every second year in whether to play in the North or South Alletta. Each of these Allettan groups then play an additional home-and-away series. Meanwhile, the remaining eight teams in each starting group play each other again in a continuation series.
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by Jason Aldean
Hicktown
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Little Jimmy Jackson is jackin? up his Bronco
He?s gonna lay a little rubber later on at the truck pull
All the girls are getting pretty sprayin? on the White Rain
Yeah, they?re gonna get a rowdy tonight
Down at the football game, yeah
We let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
It gets wild, yeah, but that?s the way
We get down in a Hicktown
Well, you can see the neighbors butt crack nailing on his shingles
And his woman?s smokin?, Pall Mall?s watchin? Laura Ingalls
And granny?s getting lit, she?s headin? out to bingo
Yeah, my buddies and me are goin? muddin?
Down on Blue Hole Road, you know, you know
We let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
It gets wild, yeah, but that?s the way
We get down in a Hicktown
We hear folks in the city party in Martini Bars
And they like to show off in their fancy foreign cars
Out here in the boondocks we buy beer at Amoco
And crank our Kraco speakers with that country radio
We let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
It gets wild, yeah, but that?s the way
We get down
Oh, oh, we let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
Its buck wild, yeah, but that?s the way
We get down in a Hicktown
In a Hicktown
It?s the way we get down
In a Hicktown
Yeah, in a Hicktown
Aww, we ain't finished yet
Got your country boys and your Red neck girls
Its the party heard ?round the world
Right here in Hicktown, yeah, in Hicktown
The whole town is gettin down
We let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
It gets wild, yeah, but that?s the way
We get down
Oh, oh, we let it rip when we got the money
Let it roll if we got the gas
Its buck wild, yeah, but that?s the way
We get down in a Hicktown
In a Hicktown
It?s the way we get down