Joel Kellman, the 25-year-old Sharks rookie, signed out of the Swedish Hockey League last season, having spent five seasons with Karlskrona HK. Now, the forward’s former club is at serious risk of going bankrupt.
According to Swedish paper Kvallsposten, the club is reporting that they need to raise several million krona (shorthand “SEK,” conversion rate is 1/10th of a US dollar) in a short period of time to fund their reconstruction and avoid declaring bankruptcy.
Entrepreneur John Olsson then started an initiative to raise a million SEK by donations of 10,000 SEK each from 100 entrepreneurs and private individuals.