Frölunda and Färjestad have met twice in a week in SHL ice hockey and it is clear which of the teams is feeling best right now.

Thanks to 3-1 in Karlstad, the Gothenburgers took six points in the double meeting while Färjestad fell for the fourth time in a row.

The away team was sharpest from the start.

Still, it was Färjestad who took the lead when the team's best unit successfully combined in an effective game turn.

Former Frölunda player Jacob Peterson pulled up the attack, Victor Ejdsell assisted and Daniel Viksten put the puck in the net for the season's 15th full hit.

Two minutes of happiness

Frölunda came back in the second period, where defender Filip Johansson turned the match on its own.

The 20-year-old first made sure that the Gothenburgers' over 25-minute-long drought in numerical superiority ended when he shot immediately after a technical.

With plenty of confidence, he stepped around the cage two minutes later and put the 2-1 puck in the first cross behind Färjestad's goalkeeper Henrik Haukeland.

- I get some surface, try to look for a pass but find no one so then I throw the puck on goal.

There was a gap there, says Johansson to C More.

The young hill, NHL-drafted by Minnesota in the first round of 2018, has worked hard to get the development curve to point in the right direction and seems to have found the right place in Frölunda after a difficult season in Leksand.

- I've found back a bit.

I have worked a lot with the shot and the offensive bit, he says.

Worst in class

Veteran Joel Lundqvist decided the match with his 3-1 goal in the aftermath of a powerplay with a little more than six minutes left of the third period.

A historic goal.

It was Lundqvist's 237th in the Frölunda jersey.

No one in the club has done more.

Färjestad is having a hard time and is about to lose contact with the team on the right side of the quarter-final line.

After six matches, the Karlstad team has still not taken a single three-pointer in 2021 and is with a total of three points the worst in the SHL class after New Year together with table-toppers Linköping.