Grenoble took the lead on 09.12 in the first period after cooperation between two Swedish acquaintances. Sacha Treille, with her past in, among others, Färjestad and Malmö, played Damien Fleury, previously in, among others, Södertälje and Djurgården.
Fleury slid into the offensive zone on the left and whipped with a backhand towards goal. Goalkeeper Oskar Östlund then dropped the puck with the picking glove.
Skellefteå shot a total of 39 shots on goal and had a lot of chances to acknowledge. When Grenoble got a player expelled with 1.32 left of the match, the team chose to take time out. The Northern Bots pushed for a receipt, but Grenoble covered shots from Joakim Lindström and Joel Champagne sent 2-0 into the empty box.
"Must have top performance"Jesper Frödén reduced to 1-2 in the final seconds, but got beaten with the end goal in front of 1 887 spectators in Skellefteå Kraft Arena.
- We were not good enough initially. We did a try in the last, but then they had the initiative already, which meant they were in the line of shooting, blocked a lot of shots and were hard for us. We did not manage to do that today, says Tommy Samuelsson to SVT Sport.
- It's important that we have top performances every night and unfortunately we didn't have that from the beginning today, he continues.