"Where did the puck go", asked C More's commentator Åke Unger in the middle period.
The question was rather where Luleå's Leo Komarov went.
He disappeared in a sea of Malmö players who did everything to keep the puck off the goal line and landed in some kind of unexpected television puck pile in front of their own keeper Daniel Marmenlind.
The puck appeared to be dancing on the line, but was not ruled full after video review – despite Komarov's protests.
But the Luleå forward, recruited before the season, got his revenge right away.
The guests from Norrbotten led at that point with just 1-0.
Before the end of the period, during a few minor nightmare minutes for Malmö, it had been extended to 3-1 and Komarov had become a two-goal scorer.
Malmö reduced in the third, but got no closer than that.