After a difficult period with seven losses in the last eight rounds, Linköping has suddenly become involved in SHL's bottom battle.
In other words, Thursday night's meeting with the bottom gang Timrå, which has collected a lot of points recently, was important.
Something that Linköping seems to have taken hold of.
They started the match clearly well and it did not feel unfair when Henrik Törnqvist sent in 1-0 in the middle of the first period, nicely played by Vilmos Gallo.
After that, the LHC continued to scoop up.
Broc Little, who has gone scoreless in the last nine innings, missed both one and two free throws in the second period before finally managing to break the scoreless suite just over six minutes into the third period after poking a return in powerplay.
- It was lucky that the puck fell down in front of me in the goal area, then I could not miss, Little says to Cmore.
Two and a half minutes later, Timrå reduced through Sebastian Hartmann but they never came closer than that.
- These are the matches we will probably have to play the rest of the season.
I think we made a good effort tonight, everyone contributed, says Little.