As soon as a good situation turned out it was missed or the home keeper Niklas Svedberg, who made 29 rescues this evening, stood in the way.

- It is significant for us right now. It's on the finish line, in poles and it's open goal. Teams in action have the bouncer with them, forward Jon Knuts told C More.

He had an open goal himself in the middle period, but then managed to prick the post from a narrow angle.

"I put it about eight times out of ten in normal cases," he said.

Target from knee standing

But Jon Knuts was far from the only one who burned good situations. Leksand missed a handful of open positions and both Patrik Zackrisson and Marek Hrivik burned the open positions.

A big Leksandsklack on a sold out Hovet, 8 091 spectators, tried to bring his team to a goal, but it did not work.

When the team chased a receipt at the end, got to play powerplay and took out the goalkeeper, so Djurgården decided. Manuel Ågren shot 2–0 kneeling at the edge of his own zone.

Leksand has now lost 14 of its last 16 matches. The team had a nine-game losing streak that was broken by two straight wins just before the national team break in November. Since then, there have been five straight losses. And in the last five losses, the team has a goal difference of 2-22.

Is Melin safe?

Less than a year ago, coach Roger Melin came in and gave Leksand new energy after nine straight losses in the Allsvenskan. It ended with success when Melin led the team in SHL.

Now Melin himself is at risk of being lost in order for the Dalal team to find out from the darkness.

Sports manager Thomas Johansson has so far said that Melin will remain, but the same thing he said about the then coach Leif Carlsson last year.

Djurgården broke a six-game loss series last Saturday at home against Växjö and now won for the second match in a row. This is the first time since September this has happened.

Backen Linus Hultström punctured 1–0 in numerical superiority after 8.41 of the first period. It was Hultström's seventh goal of the season and the fourth game in a row he found the right one.