Nice to come out and make a good first period, but we need to talk through the second, says Luleå forward Mathias Bromé to TV4 Play.
It was a much-needed win for last season's SM gold winners whose game has been faltering.
After two straight wins at the start, Luleå had since lost six of seven matches.
For HV71, the nightmare in Norrbotten continues. The team has not won in Luleå in eight years, September 2017.
"Good period"
Luleå got a dream start to the match.
For the first time since the premiere against Malmö, the Norrbotten team won an opening period.
Isac Hedqvist made it 1-0 in a power play after HV goalkeeper Frederik Dichow failed to cover at the right post, and Markus Nurmi made it 2-0 with his sixth goal of the season.
It was a good period. When we take the puck, we go on the attack and we forecheck. We've had a few bad starts, but this period was good, says Nurmi.
HV rose
But the bottom team HV71 rose in their nightmare arena and both reduced and equalized in the second period.
Jonathan Ang made it 2-1 in a power play – Jönköping's only fifth goal in that form – and Martin Johnsen made his premiere goal in SHL. Nikola Pasic played forward to both goals.
Always nice to get a return, especially when it's been a bit tough, says Pasic about the power play goal.
The third period was long-awaited, before the home team pressed HV71 hard at the end. Mathias Bromé cheered for a goal, but after a video review, it was determined that HV goalkeeper Dichow made a great save and got the puck away before it was completely over the goal line.
Lukas Rousek got a 3-2 goal in overtime, but it was disqualified because Niklas Hansson interfered with the home goalkeeper Matteus Ward.
Instead, Luleå took two much-needed points. The team is still outside the playoffs, in a mediocre eleventh place.
HV71 is still at the bottom.
Series-leading Frölunda outclassed Malmö on the away ground with 6-1 after the team made four goals in the third period. Henrik Tömmernes and Theodor Niederbach became two-goal scorers.
Rögle is second after winning the top meeting with third Växjö, 5-3. The home team's Leon Bristedt received his second match penalty of the season. Växjö's Hugo Gustafsson had to leave the ice with a bleeding face after Bristedt's club hit him in the face.
