The guests from the north got a taste start as they were already allowed to crack zero after four minutes.
Petter Emanuelsson gained momentum on the skates in the middle zone, fine-tuned an HV player and then floated through a passive defense and put 1-0 between the legs of Jönköpings goalkeeper Jonas Gunnarsson.
During the match, the Luleå team also showed why they are leading the series. After the first period, they made it so tough for the small national team that they only got off three shots during the first period.
- We meet a really good Luleå who does not allow so much. Then we have no toxic powerplay and do not create those really sharp chances. We just giggle at it in the corners of them and then they turn lightning fast, concludes HV71 coach Stephan Lundh to C More.
Yes, even when the home team got powerplay, it rang in their own box. Luleå's World Cup gold winner Juhani Tyrväinen countered and showed good skill when he made 2-0 at the start of the second.
And if Luleå's goalkeeper David Rautio was to have a quiet evening, it was the opposite of the HV goalkeeper and especially at the beginning of the periods.
3-0 also came shortly after the start of the period. Two minutes into the third, Luleå quickly turned on the game and Petter Emanuelsson found chain colleague Jack Connolly who finished distinctly and the match felt decided.
In the final stage, HV71 tried for everything you had, but either the Luleå defense or Rautio disarmed. In total there were 22 shots against Luleåkeepern and the second time for the season, the Northern Bots will hit zero HV71 at home this season.
"It wasn't super sweaty for my own part, the guys in front did amazingly well," Luleå goalkeeper David Rautio told C More after the match.
At the end of the third in games five-for-four, Jesper Sellgren trailed 4-0 from the offensive blue.