There were words and no songs from Rögle in the first period in the away match against Djugården.
The shooting statistics said 11-10 to the home team, but the period's three goals were scored by the Scanians.
Djurgården had problems switching from attack to defense when Rögle picked up the pace and fell behind more than once, which Rögle made the best use of.
- We play as we want.
Trying to get past their press as soon as possible, says Erik Andersson to Cmore.
Super talent injured
The setbacks continued in the second period for Djurgården.
Super talent William Eklund, who made his first match since an appendix operation, was tackled into the edge of the booth door just as it opened and lay double-weight in the booth in pain.
He later left for the locker room.
As if that were not enough, Rögle made it 4-0 a few minutes later when Simon Ryfors scored his second goal of the evening.
Ryfors scored 18 points in 52 games last season and had a total of 16 goals in 199 SHL games before the season.
But with his two goals against Djurgården, he has now scored 18 goals this season alone.
- We're better at everything actually.
We dominate and it's fun to play today, says Simon Ryfors during the break.
Close to catching up
Those words he would then have to eat up.
Djurgården came out as a new team in the third period and scored three goals within six minutes.
Rögle was shaken.
What looked like a stone-dead match was now the opposite.
But in the middle of all Djurgårdspress came the cold shower.
With two minutes left, Kalle Östman dropped the puck on his own blue line and gave Brady Ferguson an open street and he made no mistakes.
5-3 to Rögle was a fact and the end result.
- It felt very stable.
Then they get a goal on a bounce.
Then it gets nervous and they ride on that wave, says Dennis Everberg to Cmore.