Linköping got off to a real party start in the meeting with red-hot Skellefteå.
It had barely passed ten minutes before the score was 3-0.
- We start the match really well, they might stay on the bus in the first period, says Linköping's Vilmos Gallo, who made it 1-0 himself and then played until 2-0, in C More.
After that it was another Skellefteå we got to see, but despite a strong dominance in the second period in particular, they didn't manage to get any closer than a two-goal deficit and in the end LHC was able to win the match 7-4 after Christoffer Ehn completed his hat-trick with a goal in the open box with just over a minute left to play.
With that, Skellefteå suffered the team's second straight loss after winning 16 games in a row.