"It was tough with two good teams but we played a damn good game and in the end it came off. It was fun but we haven't won anything yet, but I don't know what to do better. We have to win two more games and have full focus on the next game," the match-winner, three-goal scorer Noora Tulus, told SVT Sport.
Luleå got the ball out of the barrel in the third period. Wilma Sjölund made it on the right side and dotted the far post 2-1.
Then Luleå punctuated the game with two goals in ten seconds. First, Noora Tulus scored her second goal for 3-1. She got down on her knees and shot the puck in. Then Emma Nordin stayed in front on goal and bumped in 4-1.
"It wasn't a 6-1 game"
Lara Stalder, with four Swedish Championship silvers, was then given a free position to reduce for Brynäs but Sara Grahn managed.
"It wasn't a 6-1 game, it was much more even than that. We showed character when we got to play almost the entire second period in boxplay and we'll take that with us to the next game," Stalder said.
Brynäs picked out goalkeeper Amanda Johansson but went for an empty-net goal, 5-1. Then Tulus scored his third goal for 6-1 from close range.
Two Brynäs players lost clubs in the same boxplay
In the second period, Brynäs went on five ejections and Luleå had to play long periods on the power play. In games five-on-three, Noora Tulus bumped in 1-1 from close range.
On one of those power plays, it was parodic when two Brynäs players dropped their clubs and went out at the players with their arms outstretched to cut off angles. It was hilariously yielding a goal when a Luleå player accidentally shot into his own post offensive zone.