Pandemin har ställt till det för många lag i SHL under 2022. Malmö och Oskarshamn är inget undantag och när lagen möttes under söndagseftermiddagen var det den första matchen för respektive lag det här året.
Då blev en intensiv inledning på tredje perioden avgörande.
Malmö hade fått vittring efter en blixtsnabb reducering av Emil Sylvegård. Oskarshamn ledde med 2–0 efter att Tomas Zohorna utökat ledningen två minuter in i tredje perioden.
But in terms of play, Malmö was alert and they overpowered Tim Juel in the Oskarshamn goal with shots - and in the end they got paid.
25 seconds after Zohorna's goal, the twins Pathrik and Ponthus Westerholm passed Sylvegård to the reduction goal.
Shortly afterwards, it was a game in powerplay for visiting Malmö who approached a draw.
It was the exact opposite.
"Get into it"
Fredrik Olofsson and the former Malmö product Kim Rosdahl stormed forward in a numerical disadvantage, after which the latter scored the final result 3-1 between the legs of Daniel Marmenlind.
- It is difficult to know where you stand after such a long break.
But the longer the match went, we got into it.
We are starting to create more and more and get it in good order, says Rosdahl.
Tim Juel in the IKO goal saved 35 shots.
- We must not remove the credit from their goalkeeping game.
They have a great goalkeeping game that saves them today, says Malmö's coach Joakim Fagervall.